The "more tools" menus and inserting links

I think I've said this before, but inserting links is a PITA on POTN. Click more, find the text for "named URL" (having to read the text of every entry and understand the weird label rather than finding an image is slow), click it, paste, move the mouse to close the menu, then move the mouse to close the next menu. With most forums you click the link symbol in the toolbar, paste your url, hit enter, and you're done. It takes around 3 times longer than most forums.

Little usability things like this are why I've dropped from being a regular visitor doing 30-40 posts a day (I used to be ranked about #5 in total posts) down to about 3 posts a week. It's getting better, but a toolbar would make things much easier, and nicer.

tim wrote in post #17468388
I think I've said this before, but inserting links is a PITA on POTN. Click more, find the text for "named URL" (having to read the text of every entry and understand the weird label rather than finding an image is slow)

That weird label is English language, and they are always on the same spot.

You do not really need to close the menu(s). If you want to insert several links (or you are not sure if you need to), you can close the MORE TOOLS menu dialog and leave the URL dialog open and move it down and aside for more usage.

And when you need to enter more than one named link, AMASS needs only one paste/click for each, as explained above. That is one click less than most forums.

If icons are easier for some, I can make (an optional) icon menus of course. I have earlier planned to do a simplified horizontal tool menu for small mobile screens, too (optional).

What are the other things?

Reading and understanding any language is generally more difficult than a picture. Yes regular users (and the developer) will get used to it, but occasional users (as I've become) won't. So it feels slow and clunky to regular users, but to Pekka and high volume posters it'll seem fine.

If you don't close the first menu it gets in the way of the box where you write your message.

The "more tools" menu and lack of useful toolbar is the main usability issue IMHO. It's just design - the huge undo/redo buttons you could put the highly used functions like img and link insert in there and it would much better. Everything else is probably just familiarity and people will get used to. Undo/redo are nice to have, fairly unique in forums, but having them in place of highly used features doesn't seem like ideal design to me.