Jeff Atwood wrote:
Could something like this work instead of blue? I have a feeling if blue isn't indicating 'cold' to people then there's not really a color that will work
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Alternative to blue colors for coldmapping
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What will computer interfaces look like in the future?
Azareal wrote:
Continuing the discussion from In the future, all computers will be tablets!:
Honestly, I can imagine computer interfaces eventually becoming holographic. Holographic monitors. Holographic keyboards. etc.
Devices keep getting smaller, technology keeps advancing, and smaller devices mean less possible screen space.
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Notification when a moderator or admin deletes your message
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Poll: Heatmaps in the topic list: an analysis
Rikki Tooley wrote:
Continuing the discussion from Suggestion: # of likes in a topic in the tool tip:
It seems to be a relatively common sentiment that the usage of colour in Discourse is confusing. Discussion is currently focussed on the heatmapping in the post count column; I'd like to broaden the discussion.
One of my favourite techniques to analyse interface design is to imagine that the system were designed using some kind of design handbook; by studying the interface, we can imagine some specific principles that guided the design. Each of these imagined principles may then be studied in isolation: if they make sense, then it is A Good Thing. If they don't, then the principles (and the design) should be adjusted until they do.
The result of applying this technique is ensuring consistency across the design - consistency is pretty much a way to guarantee that even if the system isn't immediately intuitive, it's possible for a user to work it out with a bit of exploration.
So let's start with the topic list.
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On the right here, the activity column. The text is a "human friendly" version of when the last reply was posted. The heatmap (dark blue
light blue
grey) is scaled to the timeframe between when the topic was created and when it received its latest reply.
The middle column is the number of views this topic has received. The text is the number of views. The heatmap (grey
light red
red) is scaled to the number of views.
The left column is the just refurbished post count column. The text is the number of posts in the topic. The heatmap is scaled to the number of likes the topic has received (grey
light red
red).
An excerpt from the theoretical Designing Discourse handbook:
Each item within a list may be coloured according to a heatmap, the scale and meaning of which being determined by the list. The colours of the heatmap are determined by convention, i.e. red means more of something, blue means less of something, and grey is neutral. However, only one non-grey colour should be used in any given heatmap.
Does this make sense?
- Yes: I understand this, if I were designing a similar system I would do this too
- No: I don't understand this, if I were designing a similar system I would do this differently
- I reject the basis of your analysis and/or the options in this poll
A couple of questions for discussion:
- Are heatmaps a good idea? Is there a way they can be made to work? Any examples either way?
- Is it ok to assume that "red = hot and blue = cold" is a good metaphor for all potential users of Discourse: could the colours be misinterpreted by people of different cultures?
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Open Graph tags for embedded images?
Eric Trowbridge wrote:
I have my own Discourse forum (woot!), and I have posted this topic that has an embedded image in it. I am trying to submit a link to a subreddit with the URL of the post and Reddit pulls my profile image as the thumbnail instead of the embedded image. I can see via the source code that it is pulling my twitter card as the og:image.
Is there a way that I can specify in my post an image that I would like to be used as the tag instead so that I can pick what my thumbnail will be if my post is shared?
Thanks for the advice in advance!
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Further simplifying the columns: quality score > view count
Adam Capriola wrote:
Continuing the discussion from Suggestion: # of likes in a topic in the tool tip:
I'm digging the removal of the Likes column (the glyph being gone in particular make the display less noisy), however I do think @boomzilla makes a good point that views aren't all that well quantified. (What is a view? Are there different types of views? What does each individual view mean?)
I think the goal of showing stats, like the number of views and likes, is to convey some information about the quality of a topic. If it's a particularly engaging discussion, it should stand out from the rest.
Any notion I have of what a view count implies is the result of years of frequenting forums and coming up with some arbitrary notions in my head that certain disparities between posts and views are good or bad. (The same can be said for posts vs. likes.) I have no idea how accurate my assumptions are and this unknowingness is part of the reason @codinghorror wanted to use a ratio to give likes more meaning.
But the heatmap on the posts column so far isn't indicating to me at all a ratio of posts versus likes. It does stand out to me though and seems to be calling to me that a topic is, well, hot. Hot in the sense that it's a topic to be looked at; a quality topic.
I know there are discussions on fixing the heatmap to be more telling, but why not instead remove the views column too and come up with some kind of "quality score" that incorporates likes and views. Use that quality score to assign the heatmap to the posts column. Keep the coldmap for now simplified activity column and I think it will be easy to glean info at a glance. (Hot and cold together means the topic has had staying power. Etc.)
Views and likes without context are somewhat crummy indicators. Even with context (a post count), how reasonable is it to expect users to come up with the same conclusion about what they mean? I think creating a universal metric is worth consideration. The individual stats can still be displayed within the topic and I'm assuming at some point there will be advanced searching with sorting by views and likes and whatnot, for those who want to do so.
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Discourse likes, now with extra likes!
Matches wrote:
We at TDWTF wanted to share our love, so we've mastered the art of the DOUBLE like.
We wanted to bring this to you, because we like you.
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Initial report:
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/multiple-likes-on-a-single-post/2227?u=matches
Repro steps:
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/multiple-likes-on-a-single-post/2227/35?u=matches
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Topic List - new items does not highlight
lid wrote:
Continuing the discussion from Glitch in white/grey separation when updating Latest with new topics:
bug 1 - .highlighted class is overridden by tr.nth-child rule
1. I don't see the blue highlight when topics are added
This most likely because this rule take precedent over the .highlighted class.topic-list>tbody>tr:nth-child(even | odd){ }solution 1
add !important to .highlighted css class
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Reply box user thumbnail
Hugo Almeida wrote:
it seems theres a problem with the user thumbnail in replies:
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In the wordpress side:
Seems it doesn't affect just me:
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I guess it's because the html is using a relative link:
<img width="20" height="20" src="/user_avatar/forum.otakyou.com/griffinheart/40/3.png" class="avatar">which will not work when embedded in the word press side.
would it be ok to use this as a possible fix?
on:
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New topics with unread notifications
probus wrote:
Using the back button (again..) to enter the topic list brings me this today:
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Uncategorized permissions
sati wrote:
Hi
Are there no permissions for the 'uncategorized' category or am I missing something?
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I have removed all the categories from my forum as there really isn't a requirement for them, I also then moved all posts to 'uncategorized' but now nobody can reply to any posts as there seems to be missing permissions and there is no 'Security' settings for the uncategorized category.
Am I overlooking something?
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Per-category category_featured_topics override
Anton wrote:
Some categories are more important than others considering their content.
Trying to keep the /categories page as concise as possible, I'd like to configure the
category_featured_topicssetting per-category (i.e. ability to override the global setting per category).For example, for some categories I'd show only 3 latest topics, whereas for others 6 or even 7.
Example
Setting value, from the top to the bottom: 2, 6, 2
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Swap position of activity column and posts column
Erlend Sogge Heggen wrote:
Continuing the discussion from Consolidating Activity field:
A first simple step towards making this connection clearer would be to simply move the activity column far left, adjacent to the latest poster, like so:
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Global tracking selection
heinrich5991 wrote:
Situation
Currently there's a tracking selection for each topic on its own and for read topics.
Then there's a tracking selection for each category – but unfortunately not for the "top-level" category of the forum, that means that I either have to track all categories (and hope no new categories get added) or set read topic tracking to always and manually click on each topic to track it.
Proposal
Add a tracking selector to the top-level "Categories" view which affects all new topics.
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Cannot delete users with likes
arturo wrote:
seems like you can't delete a user even after deleting their posts if they have a like on some post.
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User can choose language during registration
almereyda wrote:
In multilingual communities, even though everyone writes in English most of the time, it would be nice to have users (optionally?) choose their language during registration, maybe even autodetected by the OS/browser locale, so they will not have to ever look for a personal profile settings screen.
Especially useful for unexperienced users.
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How would Discourse handle a topic with 1 million replies?
Thomas Wilson wrote:
Purely hypothetically, of course. Well, almost... I'm importing my old forum (which has paginated threads) and one particular topic caught my eye. It has several hundred thousand replies (it's a 'count to a million' thread... sigh) posted by hundreds of users.
If someone were to click 'go to bottom' in Discourse, would every single reply be loaded into memory by the server and subsequently dished up to the client? How would this impact performance? Would the browser's scrollbar fail? Any other oddities that could crop up?
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Duplicate first link awards
Matches wrote:
I've got multiple First link badges, and I've done a lot of linking before I got either one. This badge is marked as only allowed to be handed out once.
Will attach screen in about an hour when I'm at my computer.
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I've received 'First Link' in the past multiple times too, and the 'regular' badge.
I don't know if those things are related.
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(Mailing List) Link to private message
James Milligan wrote:
One of the "benefits" with a traditional mailing list is that you can email a contributor directly. Discourse (amongst others) prevents this because it hides the user's email address (a good thing).
Would it be possible to have a link to PM a user, either by going to the website (with the composer on screen, with their username filled in), or alternatively (possibly preferred?) a link to a tokenized email to allow them to initiate a PM with a user via email? So instead of replies+%{reply_key}, it could be pm+%{pm_key}?
A post-v1.0 in any case, but would really help sell Discourse to our members.
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Permissions to send Invites
Manoel Lemos wrote:
Gents, I need some help with the INVITES features.
It is not clear to me who can send invites and what defines that hability?
Is it possible to configure this?
Or, can I allow all my users to send invites?
How?
[]s
Manoel
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