I hate to be negative without a better solution suggestion. I find the layout of the spell, items, and monsters sections are all great and I've had no issues (except my other thread suggestion). But the compendium is awkward to navigate. The scrolling side menu takes up too much room of the page and only links internally within the page. I wouldn't mind the side menu being a top menu to let you jump down. Maybe even a single bar with Jump to Top that scrolled with you. That way you could jump to the top and then use the top menu to jump down to your new location. The side menu just takes up a lot of room and is intrusive on the actual articles you're attempting to read.
Funny thing is, if you squeeze your browser width down far enough, that menu disappears and becomes a static "Jump to..." bar at the top. If you widen your browser out far enough, the actual text reaches a width limit.
Two suggestions -
Make the side menu collapsible with a little arrow/button, and don't restrict maximum width of text in the browser, so wider screens can be taken advantage of.
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. ~DA
The sidebar is helpful, yes. But it's situational. Hence being able to collapse it would make it adaptable to more situations.
It also kinda gives the impression that everything is skewed to the right side, but that could just be my cranial trauma showing through.
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. ~DA
Obviously a matter of taste, but I like the side menu in the compendium. It doesn't take up much space and I like to be able to jump on a click. I'd rather it wasn't collapsed by default as having another click to get it to appear would reduce the quick convenience. I suppose if that could be set by user it would be fine.
Interesting - we've heard a good bit of feedback on the opposite side of this.
Would be interested to hear others chime in on the topic - is the sidebar helpful or hurtful?
Totally helpful, please don't lose the sidebar. I'm thinking that for people who aren't liking it are you viewing from a small screen or scaled down browser window?
The only part I don't particularly like about it is that it doesn't track the scroll location. For example, if I've scrolled down to "Difficult Terrain", I'd expect the sidebar TOC to have "Difficult Terrain" in a different style, like bold or red or something like that.
Interesting - we've heard a good bit of feedback on the opposite side of this.
Would be interested to hear others chime in on the topic - is the sidebar helpful or hurtful?
Totally helpful, please don't lose the sidebar. I'm thinking that for people who aren't liking it are you viewing from a small screen or scaled down browser window?
I use it in Chrome on a large HD monitor. It is totally helpful, so I think having it there and open by default, but allow users to collapse it would be the perfect middle ground.
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. ~DA
The only part I don't particularly like about it is that it doesn't track the scroll location. For example, if I've scrolled down to "Difficult Terrain", I'd expect the sidebar TOC to have "Difficult Terrain" in a different style, like bold or red or something like that.
This is definitely coming.
And we'll look into ways to make the bar more optional - thanks for the feedback!
The only part I don't particularly like about it is that it doesn't track the scroll location. For example, if I've scrolled down to "Difficult Terrain", I'd expect the sidebar TOC to have "Difficult Terrain" in a different style, like bold or red or something like that.
A so called "scroll-spy". A must for longer documentation pages, IMO.
Edit: on the JumpTo menu, while it jumps to the correct section it does not consider the sticky siteheader, causing the section header to be out of view.
I hate to be negative without a better solution suggestion. I find the layout of the spell, items, and monsters sections are all great and I've had no issues (except my other thread suggestion). But the compendium is awkward to navigate. The scrolling side menu takes up too much room of the page and only links internally within the page. I wouldn't mind the side menu being a top menu to let you jump down. Maybe even a single bar with Jump to Top that scrolled with you. That way you could jump to the top and then use the top menu to jump down to your new location. The side menu just takes up a lot of room and is intrusive on the actual articles you're attempting to read.
Funny thing is, if you squeeze your browser width down far enough, that menu disappears and becomes a static "Jump to..." bar at the top. If you widen your browser out far enough, the actual text reaches a width limit.
Two suggestions -
Make the side menu collapsible with a little arrow/button, and don't restrict maximum width of text in the browser, so wider screens can be taken advantage of.
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. ~DA
This!
That is a great suggestion. The ability to collapse the menu is a perfect solution.
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D&D Beyond FoundersInteresting - we've heard a good bit of feedback on the opposite side of this.
Would be interested to hear others chime in on the topic - is the sidebar helpful or hurtful?
The sidebar is helpful, yes. But it's situational. Hence being able to collapse it would make it adaptable to more situations.
It also kinda gives the impression that everything is skewed to the right side, but that could just be my cranial trauma showing through.
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. ~DA
Obviously a matter of taste, but I like the side menu in the compendium. It doesn't take up much space and I like to be able to jump on a click. I'd rather it wasn't collapsed by default as having another click to get it to appear would reduce the quick convenience. I suppose if that could be set by user it would be fine.
Just my two cents.
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The only part I don't particularly like about it is that it doesn't track the scroll location. For example, if I've scrolled down to "Difficult Terrain", I'd expect the sidebar TOC to have "Difficult Terrain" in a different style, like bold or red or something like that.
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. ~DA
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D&D Beyond FoundersI love the side bar. I'm using a fairly small screen and haven't had any issues. I don't think it takes up unnecessary space and it works very well.
Thanks for listening! Love how great you guys have been in taking feedback and working to make this site even better.