A bunch of random UX feedback

[martpie]

I have just ragequit on Decap CMS after flipping my desk trying to get auth working, and discovered that Sveltia was a thing.

First, THANK YOU for this effort, it is a big step-up from Decap, and I managed to make my Next.js website work in 15mn, thanks to the cloudflare auth integration (so simple I kind of facepalmed myself after trying to make Identity work with GitHub authentication and everything).

I have a bunch of really random feedback, ideally I would create a separate issue for each. but they're really little things.

• sveltia-cms-auth

  • it could be useful to explicitely mention which env variable should be a secret, and which one can be plaintext.
  • "click the Encrypt button to hide it" this does not seem to exist anymore, and now users can choose between TEXT/JSON/SECRET strings

• Collection Item Edition:

  • The context menu for each field is weirdly located when "show preview is false", in the middle of the row, and adds a lot of vertical space/noise

• ... edition
  • My website relies a lot on images within markdown (see img below), but the person editing the website is highly non-technical. The Image widget is quite noisy and confused her a lot, I wonder if there is something that could be improved here. Ideas:
    • Bigger source image in wysiwyg mode: 160px is really small
    • Alt/title/link in collapsible hidden by default? (maybe not for Alt because accessibility and everything)
    • Less borders, etc, in general, less visual nesting?

• Data loading
  • maybe I just missed it in the doc and it's not a Sveltia-specific issue, but coming from more traditional CMS, it is not straightforward to understand people need to fs.readdir and readfile across the various content folders, and gray-matter and everything in order to fetch and parse the content. I wonder if this is something that should be added to the docs?

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I think that's it, but I will for sure have more feedback once the website admin will start playing with it :)

thank you again for the awesome work

[martpie]

Adding this while I'm here:

• Content Edition:
  • Personal feeling: the editor line-height is really big, and I could not say if there was an empty line or a big line-height without clicking and typing in the wysiswyg editor
  • It would be nice to be able to resize the editor and the preview panes to avoid crazy text wrapping:

[artemudovyk]

* Collection Item Edition:
  
  * The context menu for each field is weirdly located when "show preview is false", in the middle of the row, and adds a lot of vertical space/noise

FYI last version without this bug should be v0.70.6.