Topic on Talk:Structured Discussions

Current: "You have entered text in this form. Are you sure you want to discard it?"

Better: "You've started a topic. Do you want to discard it?"

Basically, don't use programmer language like "entered text" and "this form"; talk to users about what they're doing, not the technical elements of how they're doing it. Also, it's unnecessary to say "are you sure you want to" when a simple yes-or-no question will do. I'd prefer that the dialog buttons say "Yes" and "No", as well, but "OK" and "Cancel " may be a browser restriction - I don't know.

The "Ok" and "Cancel" button text is definitely a fixed browser string - they were discussing the frustrations of that, a few days ago.

I believe the messages themselves, are also browser defaults. ie. they're only changeable if we reimplement the entire things in javascript. I'll have to confirm that part, though.

There's a similar annoyance with the wording of the message that we get from regular wiki pages, if we try to leave the page with unsaved content in a text-area: it asks "This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave - data you have entered may not be saved." with slightly clearer buttons that say [Stay on page] [Leave page]. (adding that to Flow, is bugzilla:58402).

HTH.