Il 17/03/2015 23:29, Danny Horn ha scritto:
Thanks for all of the questions and suggestions. Flow is still in active development, and there's a lot of feature work being done right now. Some of the features that have been mentioned in this thread are actually just about to be released, and some are coming up over the next month or so.
Here's how it breaks down:
Coming out very soon:
-- The ability to edit other people's posts will be out on Mediawiki by the end of next week. We’ve made a few interface changes to support that. Posts that have been edited by someone that isn’t the original poster now say “Edited by Username 3 minutes ago”, so that it’s easy for everyone to see what’s happened. When someone edits an existing post, we fixed the diff pages so that you can browse between previous and next changes. [1]
By "Mediawiki", do you mean www.mediawiki.org? I would like to stress the importance of such ability for *all* wikis. On Wikimedia, unlike most other sites, nothing is 'owned' by someone, and protection is only a precautionary measure. Flow is supposed to work with this model.
-- Sane threading model, with more levels for replies and tangents -- also coming out next week. Talking about this feature gets super lengthy and complicated, so I’ll write another post right after this one that will give all the details for people who are interested. [2]
-- Admins viewing deleted boards without undeleting it -- coming out in three weeks. [3]
Working on these next:
-- Moving topics between boards -- We’ve got designs and estimates for this, and I’m expecting that to come out in April. [4]
-- More powerful watchlist/notification functionality -- This is a very important feature that will be getting a lot of team attention over the next month. We need to re-read the mountain of requests that have accumulated, and reach out again to you for fresh feedback. Improvements will aim to be continuous and incremental.
Future plans, not scheduled yet:
-- Full wikitext toolbar -- We’re going to release v1 of a VisualEditor toolbar in the next couple of weeks. This version will just have three functions: Bold/Italics, Links and Mentions. (Mentions will have autocomplete with user names that have already participated in the thread.) We’ll definitely be doing more work on toolbars coming up, but we want to see how this first one works before we make any solid plans.
-- Make the links to threads look nicer -- Yeah, this is annoying. It’s not in our top five list of annoyances at the moment, but we’ll keep checking off annoying items. Nicer links will get its turn. [5]
-- No-JS and accessibility -- We’ve done some work on this, and there will be more coming up. [6]
So there's a lot of work still to be done, but we're adding a lot of features. I hope this helps explain where we are in the process.
We’re going to have an Office Hours Google Hangout on Monday at 19:00 UTC, so we can answer questions and talk about the project. If people are interested, we can schedule more of these.
Thanks again for all the specific feature requests and concerns. We’ll be requesting larger and wider quantities of feedback in the near future, as some of the upcoming features are planned and built.
Danny
Phabricator tickets mentioned above: [1] Flow post editing for autoconfirmed users: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90670 [2] Prototype for new indentation model: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88501 [3] Admins viewing deleted boards: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90972 [4] Moving topics between boards: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88140 [5] Less ugly topic page links: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59154 [6] No-JS tracking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60019
Thanks for the detailed and timely reply.