On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Hhhippo <hhhipppo@gmail.com> wrote:

(great stuff as always)

* Browsing: I don't like the blue background of "Browse topics" when the ToC is open. This looks like a button (actually, it doesn't, but in the same way as buttons on newer parts of the mediawiki UI or on facebook don't, so one might think it's a button). The function of that area is somewhat comparable to that of a 2-state button, but those shouldn't be labeled with a verb that only makes sense in one of the states.

Me too. Likewise the blue background and shape of the current filters looks like a button. What happens if you click it?

* Marking topics with recent activity: the color we're familiar with in this context (from e.g. history pages) is green, not blue.

Yes, when you follow a Permalink to a post in a topic, that post has a green left bar (example). But when you click on a "Hhhippo and 2 others responded" message notification, there's an extra parameter fromnotif=1 that causes Flow to highlight that post and newer ones (example). I don't like the two colors, we should pick one and preserve the thick bar for the actual reply and a lighter one for newer posts, there was a bug or Trello card comment about it.

(A gadget writer could add a client-side "Highlight newer posts than this" action: fame and fortune awaits)

=S Page Collaboration team engineer