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Multiple issues related to collapsing of topics

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Patrick87 (talkcontribs)

There are some issues related to the collapsing of topics:

  1. When having set the most compact view (only header lines), the header stays in this compact state, even when expanding the topic. This means that essential information (most notably the topic summary) is not accessible.
  2. The collapse state is remembered across boards ā€“ which is good!
    However when directly accessing a topic by its permalink, it's also collapsed. When following a direct link to a topic I'd expect the topic to be expanded automatically (collapsed view of topics doesn't make any sense at all in my opinion).
  3. Even worse: Combination of 1.+2.
    Since there is no collapser button on topic-only pages, there's absolutely no possibility to expand the header.
  4. The issue mentioned in Topic:Ryg3lor74px5q0di was apparently not addressed so far although it seems quite obvious that there should be done some improvement.
TheDJ (talkcontribs)
Quiddity (WMF) (talkcontribs)

The collapse feature was originally an experimental one, to see if it could replace the need for a ToC. They're now planning on adding a ToC (notes at https://trello.com/c/82lQgJ3Z/), and so the collapse feature will probably be removed (or drastically changed) soon thereafter.

For the "drastically changed" possibility, do you have any suggestions as to how the idea could be revamped, given the future existence of a ToC? I'm thinking it might be a good idea to retain a 2-state toggle, but possibly that wouldn't really be broadly useful enough to take up permanent space at the top of the Board. (Where more controls will be added over time)

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