One bubble at a time

When you arrive on the home page, the little “Can't be bothered to read either?” bubble now attaches straight to the cover’s headphones button, instead of waiting for you to scroll down. And it no longer disappears for good after your first listen: it keeps reminding you until you’ve listened to three sections all the way through.

When you’re not signed in, the “Don’t lose your reading progress” reminder waits until you’ve closed the listening bubble before showing up, instead of appearing on top of it. One bubble at a time is nicer.

On phones, the “Loading audio” message could cover the bubbles and hide the “Log in” button. It now goes behind them, and shows up again when you close the bubble.

The “Loading audio” message could stay at the bottom of the screen forever, even with the audio paused, for example after the sign-in window opened. It now disappears as soon as loading ends, and a load that doesn’t answer stops after two minutes.

On phones, each carousel step’s title now sits on top of the image, and the image moves up just below the top of the screen. That leaves more room for the text: the longest steps, like the brain one or the last one, no longer spill over the bottom bar.

The written chat, at the bottom right, now answers like the live voice assistant: it knows my experience and how I see the phenomenon, it searches the site before answering, and it gives you a link to the page that talks about it. While it searches, it shows “I'm thinking…”, then how long it took. It can still collect an idea or a bug for the roadmap.

In the chat, the button to talk to me live is now green, with a little phone that rings now and then and waves coming out of the earpiece. Before, it wasn’t obvious that you could call.

When you listen to the “How to get back to a normal life” section of the home page, the page scrolls on its own to the image I’m talking about: the young man, the usual path, then the new normal. On phones, the carousel of the two paths also slides to the right image.