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

[momijizukamori]

Oooh I bet something is going wrong the the JS, and you're getting dumped into the non-JS workflow instead.

(I assume you have JS enabled, at least, if you weren't having this before - though if you do selective script-blocking, the JS file in a different path now)

I'll see if I can reproduce!

[ecosophia]

Er, I'm sixty and not especially tech literate, so I have no idea what a JS might be. If you can tell me how to enable a JS -- perhaps by giving it a puppy treat and patting it on the head -- I'll gladly do so.

[momijizukamori]

Oh! JS = Javascript. If you don't know if you've done anything with it, you almost certainly haven't, so this is most likely a bug on our end that I'll have to do some digging into.

[ecosophia]

I'm not sure if you did some digging or what, but at least at the moment the problem seems to have gone away -- I just put through a small flurry of comments without having to go to the "do you really want to do this?" page. So apparently Javascript liked the puppy treat or something. Thank you.

[ecosophia]

Okay, this is *really* funky. I'm having intervals a few minutes in length when the problem goes away, other intervals of the same length when the problem recurs, and lots of "502 Bad Gateway" pages. I gather there's some kind of general problem on your end. Computer tech being what it is, I'll deal, and I hope it isn't too hard to fix.

[momijizukamori]

I haven't changed anything, but Mark was tweaking some stuff - let us know if you keep getting errors and I'll pass it along!

[ecosophia]

Thanks for this. Just now I had a bunch of comments go through just fine, and then I went to the next page of comments and zap -- right back into the same problem. (That's happened more than once, btw. Is it possible for going from page 1 to page 2 in the inbox to mess something up?)

But I'll keep you posted. At least I'm not getting 502 error messages at this point -- I had a mess of those earlier today.

I probably should have mentioned also that I have an open support ticket, #46454.

[momijizukamori]

Oh, the page change info is good to know! That could be it - I'll investigate some more.

Hopefully Mark's tweaks earlier will keep the 502s away.

[ecosophia]

I've only had one 502 so far this evening, which is pleasant, but the latest round of comments all went to the intermediate page.