On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Brandon Harris <bharris(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
* Posts are automatically marked read as you scroll
through them.
* Unread posts are significantly called out (green
headers, experimental - this is fairly obnoxious but you are warned)
I kinda like it. :)
* Topic titles are now hot
\o/ yay :D
* Rudimentary search functionality
- Loading throbber
- case insensitive
- DOES NOT tokenize
- searches titles, authornames, tags, postcontent
In Firefox and Chromium this is giving me an error: Cannot call method
'match' of null
Right now, I've made the entire title "hot" as well so as to
increase the affordance size. They should also
probably have a hover state
to indicate that something is going to happen.
...
One possible solution to this (which I will prototype up) is to:
a) Automatically collapse read "branches"
b) Only provide a control to *expand* those posts (and it
would expand all posts in the branch (so you don't have to do the horrible
Quora style "click to open each comment)
I think Gmail is a very good model to follow -- they've put a lot of effort
into making a good system that handles long discussions, with collapsing of
already-read items but it's easy to click through to open them and see more
context.
They don't use a hover effect other than the cursor switching to the hand
pointer. There's no chevrons, just click the title to expand or collapse.
* the
appears-on-hover "(board * contributions)" links are hard to
discover and
use on a touchscreen (for instance an iPad or other tablet
that gets the desktop interface by default)
Jah. Erik asked that I provide minimal information and only do
selective reveal, which isn't mobile-first but we're trying to illustrate
concepts here rather than final functionality.
I think my preference is to have a fairly standard "user block" that
expands on click to provide other links. Hover color/border change and/or
exposure arrows could provide an affordance here.
-- brion