Discussion activity chronology
Jesse Doud
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We're rolling out natural discussion item chronology early next week (7.10.13).
We wanted to have a place where members can go and talk about the change. The user testing we've done has shown that the flipped discussion order will be quite intuitive for new users. On the other hand, our lovely members who have grown accustomed to "new to old" discussion chronology may have some growing pains.
In the end, we think that our users will love arriving at a new discussion and reading from top to bottom, and commenting in the flow of the dialouge.
Here's a blog about the changes.
Poll Created Mon 7 Oct 2013 11:06AM
rollback the flip until autoscroll or opt out is in place Closed Wed 9 Oct 2013 10:12AM
Having to scroll down manually on each discussion is a big usability regression in my mind and I would like to not have to do it.
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Agree | 22.2% | 2 |
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| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 66.7% | 6 |
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| Block | 11.1% | 1 |
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| Undecided | 0% | 892 |
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Richard D. Bartlett
Mon 7 Oct 2013 7:35PM
I think we'll make a better design if we allow ourselves to feel the pain for a little while. Also opt out seems unfeasible.
Benjamin Knight
Mon 7 Oct 2013 8:47PM
I'm personally keen to let this settle in for a while - I think it'll be better in the long run as the discussion page evolves in the next month, but I totally understand that it feels like a pain right now.
mix irving
Tue 8 Oct 2013 2:19AM
this is tested with wider public already, the autoscroll needs work but a rollback would add more chaos at this point
vivien maidaborn
Tue 8 Oct 2013 2:22AM
I'm wanting to see this feature all up and running right before any radical change is agreed
Alanna Irving
Tue 8 Oct 2013 2:33AM
I would have liked to see this tested more thoroughly, or a way to roll it out to a few select groups first. But now that it's done, I think we should live with it a while. It's not fully broken - still useable.
Hemon Dey
Tue 8 Oct 2013 10:47PM
I don't like having to scrolling down to have to get to the latest post. It was fine previously and I've grown accustomed to that interface. However there appears to be a few who like this new format, so is it possible to make it user selectable?
Lachlan Priest
Wed 9 Oct 2013 5:54AM
Autoscroll takes approximately 15 minutes to implement, this rollback is unnecessary.
Benjamin Knight Mon 7 Oct 2013 8:48PM
Totally agree that we shouldn't neglect super users and it was a massive oversight to not put an announcement up when the feature was rolled out. Thanks for raising this @joshuavial and @malcolmshearer
Malcolm Colman-Shearer · Mon 7 Oct 2013 7:16PM
I love the idea of this feature but it totally caught me off guard this morning. There wasn't anything anywhere that told me something had changed... was there meant to be? Did I miss something? I did read the blog but I thought a major interface change like that might have some kind of alert at the top of the page or something similar? Perhaps if autoscroll had worked that wouldn't have been neccesary...?