June 28, 2023
If you're reading this you should almost certainly check out the post on creating our content container if you don't want to miss out on some very, very important plot details.
Rethinking Notifications
The current state of social media platforms on the web is pretty dire. Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, even LinkedIn are all competing for the same thing: your constant engagement. You're notified about every teeny-tiny little thing: a subreddit you might like has a new post, someone scrolled by your comment, your aunt Janet liked a post about cats, it's non-stop! We yearn for a day where you're notified about fewer and only important things.
Since we won't have the same monetization strategy as other social media platforms, we'll be able to notify users less and allow them to discover contentmore organically. This won't be a platform you visit and have to attend a notification therapy session afterward. Our current notiication strategy is: let users know if they've been tagged in a post or if they have unread messages. Even with those notifications we will keep it simple and opt for plain-text counters at the navigation bar.
Figma mockup
Navbar Design
As you can see from looking at it - the designs here align closely with the styles of our content container component. This look will crop up a lot on components around the site to keep the feel consistent. We're still in the phases of converting our Figma designs into proper React components so everything is currently placeholder data. When logic and proper data comes into play we'll update you on the progress but in the meantime:
React component