Topic on Extension talk:StructuredDiscussions

Mostly putting this here for my own reference... The major issues that I currently see with StructuredDiscussions being a good replacement for article talk pages are:

• There’s no archiving system
• It seems old topics are not in-page searchable
• List of topics (in the "Browse topics" UI) isn’t scannable. Seems to only show a maximum of 11 topics at a time.
• Copying and pasting is better than it used to be but still a bit wonky. For example, line break handling is buggy.
• The UI is confusing. Some examples:
  • Does “Hide” just hide for me or everyone?
  • What is “Recently…”?
  • What’s the difference between the 2 different “Reply”s?

Archiving may well be automatic and invisible. But I can't think of anything more to say on that list.

Thanks.

Concerning the list of topics, when you scroll it down, it will load more results.

For all your other comments, there are already requests (and tickets) made. I can link them to you of really necessary.

Yes, if you know ticket numbers for any of those, please post them. Thanks!

Here are a couple more I just noticed:

• After you jump to an old topic from "Browse topics", it disappears off the screen (presumably because content above the section you jumped to loads in after).
• The "cur" and "prev" links in the history seem to mostly not function, but when they are available they seem to do different things than they normally do.

Here are a few links that would fit your reports:

• search in old topics covers some of your questions, like the list of topics not searchable and the archiving (archiving can be a status you search for).
• copy/pasting not working properly has no specific ticket but changing the storage format may help (T174374)
• Confusing UI
  • how hide works: add tooltips
  • what is "recently" has no ticket, but there are something about relative timestamps to improve. You can hover the date to have a better timestamp.
  • the two reply buttons are related to the threading, currently based on user selection rather than being hard-coded into the data structure as they are now. (T105438 and T108998)
• The problem when you jump to an old topic is to be recondidered, to have, a pagination instead of infinite scrolling (:T132817). This is overall covered by reconsider how to navigate on a Flow board
• History integration is currently poor in consistency with everything else (T85563), that impacts the "cur" and "next" links.

You can find here the most urgent improvements that have been decided last year, based on user feedback. Most of your cases are listed there.