nextcloud / nextcloud/screenshots

Ways to make the screenshots nicer

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Description

Looking through the screenshots they are unfortunately a bit bland, not very tweetable (good test for that):

Some suggestions:

  • The biggest issue is that all the elements are very small. We need to zoom in on screenshots. When you are on 1920*1080 for example it’s a good idea to zoom in to 150 %
  • The files and folders should have more realistic names, and especially not all short ones.
  • Some files / folders should be favorited to show they are listed up top
  • Ideally we have some script which fakes the dates to not all be "1 hour ago"
  • When we show the sharing sidebar, it should be filled with other people the file was shared with
  • When we show the Activity, it should have some recent activity of varied types: shares, comments, changes
  • More ideas? I know some of these things are more difficult to do, but we can always keep them in mind. :)

cc @nextcloud/website @jospoortvliet @MariusBluem what do you think?

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design
Issue type
Feature
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5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
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