User:SOTO/Forum Archive/A new Tardis, at last/@comment-57280-20150105151618/@comment-188432-20150106162527

Hey guys :) Thanks for all the feedback. The infobox issues — particularly those being caused by Recent Wiki Activity pushing them down — are definitely an ongoing area of concern and something we're working on. Let me leave those one side for a moment and instead concentrate on this issue of things being impossible to find.

When I even barely touch the edit pencil on what we'll call the "left rail", I immediately see a menu, and I gotta say I've never been particularly confused by where things are. Is that pop up menu not popping up for you so immediately?

I understand, Shambala, that it's another step, and one you might not want to take, but since it pops up if my mouse so much as breathes on it, I'm not sure I see that it makes things "impossible to find", as 23skidoo has said. If you could develop your concerns about the left rail icons, it'd be very helpful.

By the way, I should point out why this left rail pencil icon works as it does. It's because more of our traffic is working on touch devices. In a touch environment, hitting the down arrow chevron of the old edit menu is challenging. Many people using touchscreen had a devil of a time finding, for example, page history because they just couldn't trigger the edit menu. This method gives them a bigger target to hit with their fingers, and thus a much better success rate at finding all the stuff under the edit menu.