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[Bug]: Photos & Memories Timeline View Behavior #372
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area:photosPhotos, Memories, RAW, people, albums, tags, and editingPhotos, Memories, RAW, people, albums, tags, and editingarea:uxNavigation, accessibility, responsive design, and interactionNavigation, accessibility, responsive design, and interactionbugSomething isn't workingSomething isn't workingneeds-designRequires interaction or visual design before completionRequires interaction or visual design before completionplatform:androidAndroid-specific implementation or validationAndroid-specific implementation or validationplatform:desktopDesktop-specific implementation or validationDesktop-specific implementation or validationpriority:P1Required for the pre-release product experienceRequired for the pre-release product experiencetype:performanceStartup, rendering, network, memory, or cache performanceStartup, rendering, network, memory, or cache performancetype:reliabilityCorrectness, crash prevention, recovery, and data safetyCorrectness, crash prevention, recovery, and data safety
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area:photosPhotos, Memories, RAW, people, albums, tags, and editingPhotos, Memories, RAW, people, albums, tags, and editingarea:uxNavigation, accessibility, responsive design, and interactionNavigation, accessibility, responsive design, and interactionbugSomething isn't workingSomething isn't workingneeds-designRequires interaction or visual design before completionRequires interaction or visual design before completionplatform:androidAndroid-specific implementation or validationAndroid-specific implementation or validationplatform:desktopDesktop-specific implementation or validationDesktop-specific implementation or validationpriority:P1Required for the pre-release product experienceRequired for the pre-release product experiencetype:performanceStartup, rendering, network, memory, or cache performanceStartup, rendering, network, memory, or cache performancetype:reliabilityCorrectness, crash prevention, recovery, and data safetyCorrectness, crash prevention, recovery, and data safety
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When navigating the timeline view on the Memories web app, photos are presented as a continuous flow with a vertical seek bar with index markers by Month/Year for fast navigation. The All Media view in the Photos web app features classic scrolling behavior of the entire collection grouped by month, where each month is a flexible view of images with a header. In Nextcloud-native, using the seek bar filters the view rather than navigating to that position in the catalog. The UI presents a "Back to newest" button that resets the view to show the entire selected catalog/album and scrolls to the top, but that button is not presented if the most recent month is selected (effectively locking the view until the user scrolls to a different month or navigates to a different location). The timeline view in Nextcloud-native is different and less intuitive than either of the views available on the Nextcloud web.
Selecting a video in the Folders or Timeline view only displays the preview image rather than presenting the video player for playback. The album view offers video playback as expected.
The view layout is inconsistent across the Timeline, Folder, Album, and People views. Timeline: a continuous flow with no scroll bar and a seek bar that breaks the continuous flow; Folder: a continuous flow with lazy loading; Album: Initially loads a small set of images, requires the user to click a button to load more which loads an inconsistent number of additional images; People: similar to Album view, but opening an image resets the view.
Interface and behavior in the different views is vastly different. Examples: (1) press and hold an image in timeline = add to album popup, in folders or people view = no action, in album view = remove from album (2) the "..." context menu when viewing an individual file in timeline or folders view only shows File Information, in people or albums it shows the full context menu. (3) Album view has video playback while the others do not
Navigating media in Photos & Memories should be consistent and intuitive across different views.
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Android, Linux
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nightly-20260813-2005-run903-3bac270d
Nextcloud server and affected app versions
Server 32.0.3, Memories 7.8.2, Photos 5.0.0-dev.1, Recognize 10.0.7
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