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Adds settings to the more menu.#2288

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Adds a link to the settings activity from the more menu as requested in the following issue: #2220

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veloce commented Oct 28, 2025

It was requested, but I'm not sure about it. I don't feel it is necessary.

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IMO it's a good thing for discoverability, it's not obvious that there's a menu that you can open by sliding or tapping the profile icon. Using a hamburger icon instead of the profile Pic would be another way to make settings more discoverable I guess, like it's done in the old app 🤔

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veloce commented Oct 28, 2025

I hear you and I can't deny there are obviously people struggling with finding the settings. But at the same time I don't want to overreact to lichess users feedback, and especially old app users. This is not because it was done so in the old app (or in the website) that we have to do it in the new one.

As I said elsewhere, I know at least 2 very popular apps that use the profile pics to open a menu with settings: Signal and Spotify. At least on iOS, but I assume it is also the case on android, isn't it?

If they do it, I don't see why we can't. Unless there is something that I don't see here?

I'm leaving this open for now, waiting to gather more reactions. For now they are not overwhelming so I'm not yet convinced.

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I hear you and I can't deny there are obviously people struggling with finding the settings. But at the same time I don't want to overreact to lichess users feedback, and especially old app users. This is not because it was done so in the old app (or in the website) that we have to do it in the new one.

As I said elsewhere, I know at least 2 very popular apps that use the profile pics to open a menu with settings: Signal and Spotify. At least on iOS, but I assume it is also the case on android, isn't it?

If they do it, I don't see why we can't. Unless there is something that I don't see here?

I'm leaving this open for now, waiting to gather more reactions. For now they are not overwhelming so I'm not yet convinced.

True, Spotify does it on Android as well. And WhatsApp too btw. I can see both sides of the arguments as well, but now I'm also a bit more convinced that's it's fine as it is now 😅

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