Where did those custom selectors in Lighthouse go?
As some of you may have noticed, the fancy user selector in Lighthouse has recently gone missing! You know the one. It looked a little something like this:
No, the Hamburglar did not hop out of your televisions and run off with it. We've just decided to make take a different direction for the time being. So for now, you'll see something a little more on the simple side of life.
You can quit rubbing your eyes and pinching yourself. It's not a dream. In truth, we've run into a few brick walls with the usability of the assigned user selector. While we work on developing a user selector widget that can rock some socks off, we feel that the usability of the system controls are more important than some fancy UI fluff.
So what was so wrong with the previous selector? For starters, the script wasn't going to allow us to order the list in a way which made sense for accounts and projects with a large number of users. It was forcing us to settle for horizontal ordering, which isn't cool at all.
Most importantly though, it crippled the use of hotkeys. By taking out that beloved visual selector, you can now use your keyboard the way it was intended. As accounts and projects grow, those lists are getting long, and now you can use that keyboard to sort through the list or jump straight to a user.
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Interesting. The lighthouse UI seems to be slowly becoming more and more simplified as time goes on.
I miss it! Funny thing is, it was not actually that much better than a dropdown, and I didn’t realize that until you switched it. Anyway, I still like the old one better. I like seeing people’s photos. I’m looking forward to your final solution.
Someone said the comments were broken. I’m just posting to see if we’re still having issues.
it’s coming back, but we’d rather you have the improved functionality earlier.
comments are back :)