On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Brandon Harris <bharris@wikimedia.org> 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.
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        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