Some Reward Settings are Hard to Find

[jonathansampson]

Description

Users have reported having trouble finding some rewards settings (e.g. inline tipping button controls). Users have unsuccessfully searched within brave://settings for these controls; the controls can only be found on brave://rewards (within the ☰ Settings of the Tip component).

Expected result:

Controls should be more easily discoverable.

Brave version (brave://version info)

1.18.75

[m-henderson]

@jonathansampson
I think it's by design. The rewards in itself is a separate beast outside of the browser itself. I'm not 100, but I think the rewards engine ties into Uphold to some capacity. To get to the rewards settings you click the BAT symbol to the right of the search bar an then click "Rewards Settings". In my opinion, this is not a problem and is easy to get to.

Did you already know about the shortcut to rewards settings from the BAT icon?

BTW, I love Pensacola. I go to Big Top Brewery when I am down that way.

[jonathansampson]

@m-henderson Difficult to find settings isn't by design; I assure you 🙂 These settings can be exposed in brave://settings as well, and likely should be. Rewards is indeed connected to Uphold in some ways, but not in any way that would preclude better discoverability of rewards-related settings.

Getting to the Rewards Settings page isn't all that difficult, but there are things that are nested 2-clicks deep. That can be much more difficult to find, especially since you have no ability to Search for those settings.

Pensacola is great indeed, though I've never been to Big Top 🙂

BTW, I'm an engineer on the Brave browser. Apologies if that wasn't already clear.

[m-henderson]

@jonathansampson I had no idea you were an engineer working on Brave 😆 🤣

Sorry about that! I wanted to get back into contributing so one way I do that is to go through and get conversation started on open bugs and the issues presented within them. I was assuming you were a new user to brave.

Of course making settings difficult to find wouldn't be by design 😉 I was talking about that weird separation of the rewards section being away from settings.

About the issue at hand, what do you think would be a good solution?

Also, have you ever been to Uncle Sandie's Macaw park in Pensacola? I have volunteered there a few times. That is where my profile pic came from.

[jonathansampson]

@m-henderson The appropriate solution will require some discussion on our end, but we've been able to expose more settings via brave://settings in the past. I suspect that will be one of the top options this time too; just need to make sure it's positioned well, and discoverable 🙂 Not familiar with Uncle Sandie's, sorry. Thank you for getting conversations started here! That goes a long way in terms of resolving issues.

[m-henderson]

@jonathansampson when you guys discuss a viable solution do you normally come back to this bug and do a detailed writeup on it so the open source community can work on it?

[jonathansampson]

@m-henderson Once design work and/or planning begins, this issue will either be directly updated, or referenced by another issue tracking the work. Either way, you should be able to track progress and developments here 🙂

[Miyayes]

Will be resolved with #18158 :).