Project issue queue user experience - reply links at top and bottom only
Benjamin Melançon - November 5, 2007 - 17:02
| Project: | Project issue tracking |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | User interface |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | duplicate |
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Description
The "reply" link should not appear under each comment, because comments are not threaded, and that placement gives the wrong impression that you can reply to the second comment in a thirty comment thread and have it appear under the comment you are replying to.
Also the open comment form when you are logged in is great, and linking to that instead of a standalone page reply form would be best, wherever the link is from.
#1
The initial design of the project issue queue to now use comments was good, except for the issue here.
But the recent redesign that put this comment form at the top is a big step backward in usability-- people should read through the posts to an issue before adding another one!
It is very easy to miss that there are comments this way-- this is a large form.
Also I think the "Note: changing any of these items will update the issue's overall values" worked best below the comment form, at the very bottom of the page. I (and some newbies we've been working with at WSF) found this much clearer than the setup now ("Post new comment", non-comment information to change, and then the comment textfield).
#2
Hmm, this comment form *is* coming at the bottom of the page.
But not suddenly anymore at WSF. Maybe a per-project setting?
/ben-agaric is confused.
#3
Moving issues out of User experience project.
#4
This is a duplicate of #185855: Remove reply links on comments.
It was also moved into the wrong queue.