[1441] Change the order of the "Details" panels when inspecting a world in the MM
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The "Details" section when viewing a world's page was changed in this beta to house 4 info panels per-line rather than 5 to better account for longer localization strings, which is valid, though now I feel as though the categories don't feel organized properly anymore.
The top row used to be for stuff directly related to the world itself, while the bottom line was for instance-related info. It was a lot easier to find the info you wanted at a glance because each piece of info sat next to everything in related "groups". Now that they're offset by 1, they kinda feel like they're placed arbitrarily.
This could be fixed by reordering them a number of ways, but my personal suggestion would be to simply move the "Size" panel to the end as it feels like it belongs the least in any other 'visual groupings' and would allow for the 1st and 2nd rows to remain 'grouped' in a way that makes sense at a glance. The "Size" panel was also historically the odd-one-out in the old layout, so it wouldn't be that weird for it to simply move to a third row instead of jutting out from the right.
I've attached a quick edit of what I imagine this could look like.
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I was kinda hoping I would get used to this over time but it's been a couple weeks and this still really throws me off. My original post focuses more on the design aspect of this change so I thought I'd comment on this from a muscle-memory perspective.
This change never fails to make me glance around in confusion for a second when looking for anything after the "Updated" panel. In my proposed change, everything would remain identical to the way it was before, with only the "Size" panel being in a different place. I think making users re-learn where a single UI element is would be way more elegant than cluttering half of them.
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Here is what the "Details" section currently looks like in 1441, for reference. The "Size" panel breaks the organization of everything related to player count being on the same line.
It's very awkward from a UX perspective for player count details to start arbitrarily on the 2nd panel after download size.