UX quest/poll : Buttons on the right - or Buttons on the left? 😏

[ImprovedTube]

• We got 'switches' on the right side... - yet wondering if possibly more than half of you guys like switches on the left side?

• Today the right side is familiar because of phones (and thus the more common way overall)
  (and It is practical on phones because most people are right-handed)

• Yet buttons on the left can feel efficient? because we can read from top to bottom without having to watch to the right much (think reading any formated list, table, classic checkbox lists) (given text-align is left too) (And many people did not grow up with smartphones. And browser extension users are optimizers. And ImprovedTube is far from general population)

[EvgenKo423]

I think right is OK because you should read what the option is before changing it, but in general it doesn't need fixing, because it's not broken.
I would be very confused to see checkboxes on a right side in any other application, but in IT they somehow feel natural (probably because line width is the same, so it's more like a table anyway).

[ImprovedTube]

Hi @EvgenKo423 Yes, wasn't going to change. Some things can/should be micro-optimized others are worth to stay the same and unknown how many people got used/grew fond.
Right side is common/mixed on desktop too, for example if you change settings on some popular sites.

Also wondering how an optional full page menu should look like....

Idea: Visually reshapeing the outline of an activated item, so that visual feedback is not strictly limited to the right side

(prettier & milder, not intensive)

Or adding a link to "my activated features list"(can be mild, not red) - Or slightly/noticeably shrinking the item.

[wadawada]

Buttons on the left/right both make sense
If you are thinking about efficiency, you can just make the entire option/bar as a button
or like you said, changing the outline
So there will be no left or right, but on or off

this is from another extension

[mrsangjunboon2018]

it's all up to u.

[EvgenKo423]

you can just make the entire option/bar as a button

Even though the indication is partial it's already behave like this and I like that.

[urfausto]

for me personally left is better. but even the entire string as button is cool.