And it's really important, that the new design keep adhering to the existing embed, hide.. and expand... toggles on additional content, so we don't have to go over thousands of lessons to edit or check they still work!

OHHH noooo this will really mess up my membership site I have worked on for years - hope you get this feature back - so I do not have to rebuild the entire membership.

I really agree here: Feels like the additional Resources are getting too little screen estate and teaching importance, in the new community layout, to be useful. Having them show up in a pop-up covers the main content video.

Feels like a step backwards.

A possible solution has been described her: https://simplero.canny.io/feature-requests/p/support-for-expanded-pdf-resources-in-the-new-site-layout

Yes please! Having more content visible in one lesson was one of the most asked after features, when membership sites and courses were first launched as replacement to spaces, why go back to something less asked for?

The text below is copied from the original discussion in the autoplay feature request, and focuses on pdf's, but the issue is the same for videos, we want to be able to have more than one piece of content visible at once. There has been put a lot of time and thought into deciding which pieces of additional content to embed or not, and when embedded, whether to have it expanded on pageload or manually. Why does Simplero want to trash all that?

If all that is going, the amount of work required to get it back into an acceptable setup in the new layout will mean that users who are already fed up with the current state of things in Simplero might as well move platforms at the same time.

PDF's are almost never the main asset on a lesson (even if the current interface supported that in a good way, it would not be used a lot), the most common case I have seen (and I've seen a lot) is, that the pdf is something that supports a video or audio file, like slides or a textbook that goes with the video/audio content. So it's super important for usability to have the option to have both elements visible on the same page, not in the next lesson and not as some additional hidden stuff down in the corner. I really feel the development is going backwards not forward here, just took a look at some of my own lessons in the new look and it's basically a disaster, Simplero is literally pouring hundreds and hundreds of your clients carefully spent hours down the drain.

That embedded (in the lesson!!) pdf feature on the old layout is killer, it works SO well, and it's fantastic to be able to stop and start the video and the peruse the relevant part of the adjoining pdf. That will not be possible anymore.

What is the inspiration for these new designs? Which and how many of your current long time loyal users have you asked about how they use their courses, what they're lacking, and what is really working well? Where's the pedagogical evidence supporting the new structure, because clearly there must be some logic behind, that I just haven't realized yet? I'm afraid the strong focus on building community features is taking the educational design side of things hostage in this proces.