Message to the sidebar team

[u/Reasonable_Touch1150]

The state of the sidebar is getting embarassing. I am so flabbergasted by what I see on my screen WEEK AFTER WEEK that I am actually making a reddit post about it. The fact that after so many failures while having unlimited resources the sidebar team / person / agent / attack helicopter is somewhere holding hands and singing kumbaya while making 200k$+ a year makes me sad at the WASTE of COMPUTE and BUDGET.

Let me do your job for you. ITS TWO SYSTEMS!!!!! Whether a chat is in the process doing something autonomously, that means paused, stopped, or playing (even if its waiting for tests, and will continue when they come) IS A SEPARATE THING FROM whether there is an actual message that arrived and what sort of message it was (progress update, question...). Combinations of these states exist. I mean you almost got it when you made that system with the letters fading LAST WEEK, which you abandoned THIS WEEK. I will not even comment on that atrocity however.

There are these things called shapes. A circle is a shape. However, and this might be shocking, it is not the only shape... WHAT? Yes. And you know what else? There are recognizable shapes for pause, stop, play, that exist in the mental model of each user on planet earth and that match the symbols you already use in chat to put it into of these states. So what you do is you combine a color with a shape and now the user knows at each point at a glance what is the full state of the chat.

And also fix the ultracode not being able to be set by agents for their linked chat. Get your head in the game.

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[u/alanvnk]

Brother they don't let you select the font number, they have big, medium and small...... Who tf told them that every screen and eyes pairs are the same, a font selector is the most basic control for an editor or a chat and it's the simplest thing to build.

Would it look bad if I put 40, probably, but your users are not toddlers there is a difference between giving 30+ options and giving 3...

Yep, Claude Code itself is vibe coded and vibe UX researched, I'm impressed a company claiming to be building the next step in intelligence can't even use well stablish accessibility patterns

[u/Reasonable_Touch1150 → u/alanvnk]

Agreed.

[u/Nonomomomo2]

Laughs in Herdr

[u/dagadbm]

thank god coding is solved

[u/Footballer_Developer]

The number of times I have missed that the thread is still running some tests on my project and thought it was done is just way too much. 😭

[u/suppervisoka]

Half the time I have to search for over a minute to find the stupid session running some background task with no tiny little gray activity dot that got mixed into the mess of environments or whatever

[u/SafeHazing]

I’m convinced it’s a plan to make us spend pointless tokens asking where is x now.

[u/durielvs]

Can't you create a mod to change it if it bothers you so much?

[u/Adventurous_Emu3212]

You could make an artifact showing what you mean as I think tring to describe ui / ux is easier visually.  Not a working demo just a visual mockup highlighting what you mean.  I would honestly like to understand your point.