Inbox Redesign

[momijizukamori]

This post is for feedback for the redesigned inbox! As this is a redesign rather than a port, 'it's different' isn't useful feedback - please let me know how that difference is impacting you!

In particular, I'd like feedback from phone/tablet users, and from people who regularly get inbox messages in languages that use different character sets than English (languages that use Cyrillic, various East Asian languages, etc) - a lot of the elements of the redesign were meant to address problems with these.

Fixed Issues

• 'Unread' message filter missing from the navigation sidebar
  
• All entries are showing up collapsed, even unread ones.
  
• Odd word-breaking behavior in subjects and messages
  
• Action/navigation buttons are no longer in the footer as well
  
• Spacing between subject and timestamp
  
• Have to click on the checkbox rather than anywhere on the message to select it
  
• Expand/collapse does not work on read messages
  
• 'Delete all for this entry'/'Mark all read for this entry' does not work
  
• Selected messages aren't highlighted
  
• Intermittant weirdness/failures when using the in-message comment moderation tools
  
• The bottom message on one page is duplicated at the top of the next page
  
• Clicking a link in a message also causes that message to get marked as selected.
  
• Missing link to the beta comm in the header
  
• No confirmation dialogue for 'Delete All'
  
• Deleting messages via JS causes expanded/collapsed status to reset on other messages on the page.
  
• Current page button color is incorrect in all site schemes
  
• Not enough space between compose button and manage/refresh links
  
• Following reply link does not mark message as read
  
• Actions doesn't work with JS off
  
• Links in read messages aren't muted in color
  
• Images embedded in inbox notifications overflow badly
  

Fixed But Not Live

Known Issues

• Navigation buttons reflow in a kind of ugly way on some screen sizes
  
• Not enough space between action buttons
  
• Mark All Read button doesn't update text on press
  
• No warning when you've hit the max number of flagged messages (just silent failure)
  
• Left-clicking on message actions is slow and does not always correctly redirect.
  

Possible Tweaks

• Separate filters for comments and entries
  
• Wording for buttons
  

EDIT: A proposal for alternate button interaction, to cut down on the number of action buttons for people with JS on (no-JS would still get a slightly cluttered view):

• if nothing is selected, the two buttons are 'Mark All Read' and 'Delete All'
  
• if anything is selected, 'Delete All' becomes 'Delete Selected'
  
• if anything selected is read, 'Mark All Read' becomes 'Mark Read' (or possibly 'Mark Selected Read') - a mix of read and unread marked would get this
  
• if all selected are read, 'Mark All Read' becomes 'Mark Unread' (or 'Mark Selected Unread'
  

Comments

[alexseanchai]

"You are beta-testing the new Inbox page. If you notice any problems, please report them in ."

like I know what goes there but it's not there

my tablet screen in portrait mode and my phone screen in landscape mode are both wide enough the folders don't move themselves into a collapsible above the messages like they do on my phone in portrait mode, which means the folders column eats like a third of the screen. the messages column consequently feels uncomfortably narrow, especially with the font being so much larger than Tropo Purple's on the rest of the site.

Firefox Nightly for Android, both devices

my original notification for this comment is above my first edit notification; I'm expecting it to be below my second edit notification, since the previous two have the same timestamp at precise-to-the-minute and this will be later; if I don't immediately add a third edit notif, then that expectation panned out

update: yeah, it's sorting by precise-to-the-minute timestamps so the only ones out of reverse chronological order are the original and first edit, both showing at 12:28 my time, but also now I'm on Firefox for Windows with a much wider screen and wow that font got big

[momijizukamori]

The font is actually the same size as all the other 'new-style' pages - there's more padding too, though, which may be affecting perception. I will investigate the media query stuff so that it rearranges itself at a more helpful screen size.

Did the old inbox sort by second for order?

[alexseanchai]

I don't think so, but I don't remember things being out of order, either?

Oh this is interesting. Filter to just the notifs from this entry, delete all from this entry, the notifs vanish. Click to inbox. Hard refresh just to be sure. Notifs from this entry are still there.

Mark all read from this entry is also having no effect.

[momijizukamori]

Added to the bug list!

[alexseanchai]

am on tablet, trying to select and collapse a bunch of notifs with intent of deleting the selected ones. every time I hit the flag instead of the collapse arrow, which is too often because both icons are tiny and my fingertip isn't, everything selected isn't and everything collapsed isn't.

and everything I collapse without selecting uncollapses when I delete everything I selected, though that has better odds of being intentional behavior