/explore: day/month/year buttons could be more intuitive?

[chrisbartley]

They appear to determine the timestamp at the current center of the date axis, and then center the day/month/year around that timestamp. That's really confusing when, say, zoomed into a week--especially a recent week--and then you click "year". You end up with ~6 months of future (see issue #10), which is of course empty.

Anyway, I'd love to see functionality driven by user testing feedback. For me at least, I always expect the buttons to give me the most recent day/month/year and am always surprised that they don't 🤷‍♂️

[dognotdog]

I think this an interesting question.

My thinking was that by the principle of least surprise, they should not cause a jump that causes me to lose track of where I was in the timeline, as we have no good way of going back to where we were before clicking the button.

The >> button is the one in that group that does this jump explicitly, and it being right next to the day/month/year buttons, it seems like having to do a 2nd click for gong to "the current year" is the lesser evil.