Improve the poor process of organizing links, downloads, etc. into subcategories

Per this idea an enhancement was made, however the experience of organizing links, downloads, and other lists of content is poor at best.

For one, the actual window you have to move links is incredibly small.  For whatever reason this window does not extend length-wise down very far, even with larger displays.  As a result a long list that would otherwise be aided by more screen real estate isn't helped at all.

Secondly, the actual drag-and-drop experience is just plain bad.  Many times I've had issues getting an item to drop where I want it to.  The checkered box to indicate where the item is supposed to drop does not consistently appear when dragging, and frequently when dragging to a subcategory at the bottom of a list it doesn't correctly drop, and instead goes back where it was or to an entirely different category.  It generally just feels buggy.

Because of the current implementation, you have to create a link and then manually organize it where you want it.  Why can't we as part of creating a link assign a particular subcategory that already exists, or better yet have the option to also create new subcategories thereby saving a step?

Furthermore, if you have many categories and links, it becomes a very tedious process to drag a link from the very top where all new created links live under "Uncategorized" to some other category lower in the list.  Collapsing subcategories helps, but then you have to manually do this for each subcategory.

Two simple enhancements that would make this process less painful and frustrating:

  1. Add a dropdown menu when creating link / download items such that you can both create and/or assign the link to one of your already created subcategories.
  2. Make the subcategory organization box size respond based on the screen size.  The site is so mobile friendly I'm puzzled why this particular element is the same small size no matter the size of the screen.
  • Alex Orlebeke
  • Aug 29 2018
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