Another problem with #1812566: Ship Commons with (optional, but default to on) demo content is that the default empty text is just nothing. The same is true of other views like /events and /groups.

In Drupal core, there's an established empty text UI pattern of "There are no [things] available." and then if you have permission to create those things, "Add [a thing]".

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ezra-g commented
Priority: Normal » Major

The reason I avoided empty text in a lot of these views is so that they'll simply disappear when they're empty, instead of taking up space on the page to say "Yep, this space is blank" and to avoid giving the impression of an inactive community.

However, this definitely makes some landing pages look...paltry when there's not a lot of content.

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blacklabel_tom commented

There is another solution for this being discussed here: http://drupal.org/node/1868936

Cheers

Tom

ezra-g’s picture

ezra-g commented
Title: Use standard empty text for listing pages » Identify landing pages that look paltry when empty, design alternative content
Category: bug » feature
Issue tags: +Needs design

Retitling and reclassifying. Marking as "needs design."

ezra-g’s picture

ezra-g commented
Priority: Major » Normal

Marking as "normal" because this is not a release blocker.

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lsolesen commented
Version: » 7.x-3.x-dev
Issue summary: View changes

Reformatting link #1868936: Better empty text for 'all', 'posts' 'documents' and 'polls' tab.