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]

Is the clickable range for the menu links supposed to extend far enough right I can click Site Notices by mistake when aiming for the flag?

[momijizukamori]

are you still getting this on the newest beta? I was not able to reproduce.

[alexseanchai]

that's a laptop screenshot, I'll check tomorrow my brain went on strike, I think; it's a moot point on mobile with the folders collapsed above the most recent inbox item

is the clickable range for the expand folders arrow smaller than for collapsed inbox items, or is that broken, or do I keep just not hitting that specific arrow? currently on Firefox Nightly 114.0a1 for Android

[alexseanchai]

on Windows laptop neither problem is happening, bc either my Firefox window is wide enough that the folders are left of the inbox items and not collapsible and hovering my cursor only highlights a folder name if the cursor is at least as far left as the close parenthesis in "Entries and Comments (##)", well away from the flag, or my Firefox window is narrow enough the folders collapse above the inbox items, even farther away from the flag, and clicking to expand the folders works fine

could be an Android problem, could be a human error problem; I would appreciate bigger expand-collapse arrows on mobile regardless, but that's only the issue here if the expand-collapse folders arrow is smaller than the expand-collapse inbox items arrow, as the expand-collapse inbox items arrow is working fine

[momijizukamori]

I'll poke at it - the folder expand/collapse is a different bit of JS than the inbox items so I'm not surprised the target area is different. Would having the whole bar trigger the expand/collapse instead of just the arrow be better, or worse?

[alexseanchai]

definitely better