I said this during the retrospective about beta features. I think all beta features should be enabled for all logged in users the month before they get deployed. Let's not resort to banners please.
Let's instead train people to go to the beta features page and help us build great products that meet both user and administrator needs upon first release. On 18 May 2014 19:24, "Rainer Rillke" rainerrillke@hotmail.com wrote:
Sun May 18 00:20:10 UTC 2014 Brian Wolff bawolff at gmail.com wrote:
I do think there are probably better ways to handle notification of new features. Perhaps a pop up the first time new feature is activated explaining the feature and how to disable it. I'm not really sure.
Yeah, that would be cool: I am tool "x", I do "y" and you can disable me pressing button "z". Let button "z" be a prominent element of the UI for the time of testing at large scale. This way, we can get rid of some of the banners, thus reducing the risk for ~-blindness and some of the trouble. VE has something similar now, if I recall correctly (though the disable-me-button is missing).
-- Rillke
I also like MMV as a visitor; but it doesn't fit into any administrator's workflow at Commons most of the time. Perhaps you also want to make it easier for anyone to report issues? Other sites have heavy libraries allowing users to pick the trouble-maker, or take a screenshot and cutting it, ...
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