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Old 03-19-2026, 10:37 PM   #3
bizhifei
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Originally Posted by QuietShelfLife View Post
Nice work — this looks like a solid refresh over the current interface. A few thoughts:

The sidebar navigation with Series, Authors, Publishers as first-class sections is a big improvement. Discovering books by series in the current web UI has always been clunky, and having it right there in the nav makes browsing much more natural.

Dark mode auto-detecting from system settings is a good call — one less thing to configure.

How does the sidebar behave on narrower screens? I'd guess a lot of content server users are browsing from a phone or tablet on the couch, so collapsing the sidebar into a slide-out menu or hamburger would be important for those cases. I see kovidgoyal raised a similar point on the PR.

Either way, nice contribution — especially keeping it frontend-only so it can slot in without backend changes. That makes it much easier for people to try.

Thanks for the comment!

Narrow screens have definitely been on my radar during development.

I think it's usable and readable, although not perfect in look, because there’s so much information to display.

That said, I still think it’s a huge step up from the old version.
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