I haven’t used Muse extensively, mainly because after a brief bit of use it becomes painful with lag. Here is some feedback based on my experience that would make it more useful. For context, I’m mostly trying to use it to create custom code:
- A larger chat window. For me, this is all about being able to access as much relevant info as possible. There is a significant amount of unused screen space above the muse chat window. Making the window taller would be very helpful so I can see more code and more of the chat at a glance, in being able to understand the code without having to constantly scroll to read and digest it. Yes, I could copy paste it, but I shouldn’t have to do that.
Also I feel blog posts on the right are redundant and wasting screen space - when I’m here, I just want to code, I don’t care about blog posts. This screen should be all about creating the most effective workflow possible, and having blog posts there doesn’t help. I’d rather have a larger chat window - and if there was anything else on screen, it should be about helping me to navigate the chat more effectively, like conversation chapters or something.
I also noticed that with some of the bigger code samples I copy pasted in, the code was going off the screen. Another example why the window needs to be bigger.
Unrelated, but, this window to write out my feedback was also incredibly small making it strangely uncomfortable when writing such a big message.
- Scroll bar - I don’t see a vertical scroll bar in the chat window. The only scroll bar is on the blog window. Why? I can only scroll the Muse chat with my mouse wheel. So in addition to making the window wider and taller, by getting rid of the blog posts and using that empty space above, add a vertical scroll bar for the chat.
Why do I want one? Because when I use Chat GPT I am frequently going up and down the conversation, looking back at past messages, possibly a long way back, to analyse different parts of the conversation, maybe go back to something that was said eariler, a different version of the script, whatever. The point is, a vertical scroll bar needs to be there.
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Lag. After sharing a few script examples trying to solve a complex editor scripting issue that I do not know the issue with, Muse starts to lag considerably. We’ve only had about 4 or 5 messages and it’s lagging so bad it’s become unusable. I am typing just one minute, and have to wait a full minute for the cursor to catch up with me. This makes it unusable.
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Text window size - the little window you write text in is tiny. The ability to expand it or shrink it while typing would be helpful. Sometimes you might want it smaller so you can read the chat window and what Muse said, or other previous messages. Other times you might want the chat window bigger so you can see more of the code you are writing. It would be more helpful
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Text window “Send Button” - The “Send Message” button in the chat window is extremely impractical right now. It hovers over the text you write. This means that, if my text reaches that point, it goes under the “Send Button” icon and I can’t see the word I’m typing. If I keep typing long enough it usually goes onto the next line, but it is really inconvenient and should be fixed so that, either the text goes to a new line when it reaches that button, or you move the button out of the chat window.
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Show images - I was trying to describe an issue to muse, where I created custom editor scripts for the Unity Tilemaps, but there was no preview icon of the sprite in the project explorer. I kept asking Muse to help me give it a custom icon based on the custom tile’s sprite, and it kept trying to help me, but the code never worked. There was a part of me that wished I could just show it an image to help describe what I’m talking about. Adding stuff with images to the chat could be interesting and useful if integrated well.
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Chat history would obviously also be great but that’s coming I know
