Personally I'd rather have the sidebar be toggled on click, instead of having such a huge animation every time my mouse passes by. And if it's such an important part of the UI that requiring a click is too much of a barrier, then it'd be better to build that functionality into a permanent sidebar rather than a buried under a level of sidebar buttons.
The sidebar on my Finder windows for example are about 150px wide, always visible, and fit more content than all three of Msty's interchanging sidebars put together.
If I had a lot of previous conversations that might not be true anymore, but a single level sidebar with subheadings still works fine for things like Music where I can have a long list of playlists. If it's too many conversations to reasonably include in an always visible list then maybe they go into a [More] section.
Current UI feels like I had to think a bit too much to understand how it's organized.
Ugh! That’s not the experience I wanted people to have. Sorry about that and I will be working on making the experience better. Feedback like yours really helps so thank you very much.
Personally I'd rather have the sidebar be toggled on click, instead of having such a huge animation every time my mouse passes by. And if it's such an important part of the UI that requiring a click is too much of a barrier, then it'd be better to build that functionality into a permanent sidebar rather than a buried under a level of sidebar buttons.
The sidebar on my Finder windows for example are about 150px wide, always visible, and fit more content than all three of Msty's interchanging sidebars put together.
If I had a lot of previous conversations that might not be true anymore, but a single level sidebar with subheadings still works fine for things like Music where I can have a long list of playlists. If it's too many conversations to reasonably include in an always visible list then maybe they go into a [More] section.
Current UI feels like I had to think a bit too much to understand how it's organized.