2009/10/21

Summary:

Bug fixes and small improvements.

2009/10/21

pieterh 21 Oct 2009 18:32

• Comments module title="" argument now defaults to spaces instead of "Comments".
• Comments module was showing extraneous H2 "Add your comment" - removed.
• Editors now link to quick reference page instead of full documentation.
• Email notification subjects homogenized for all actions on a page.
• NewPage was mangling the enter page title - now uses the title as entered.
• NewPage cut off page title to 60 characters - now allows up to 128 characters.
• Various edit wizards (e.g. page link) now set the focus correctly.
• The Page rename function sometimes left the cache inaccurate - fixed.
• ListPages updated_at caused an error message - fixed.
• If one user replied to a post while another deleted it, the thread was broken - fixed.
• RecentComments and other modules could not handle comments by a guest user - fixed.

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Homogenized email notification subjects

Ed Johnson 22 Oct 2009 03:45

Email notification subjects homogenized for all actions on a page.

I don't think I like this change.

We used to get:

• New Page…
• New Post…
• New Comment…
• Page "Page Title" edited …

as the start of the subject line.

My preference is to usually skip by any messages with the word "page" in the subject, especially when reading messages on my phone.

Now we get:

• [site-name] activity at Page Title

for per-page comments, new page creation and page edits.

And we still get:

• New Post…

for new forum posts.

With this change I can't tell if the e-mail is something I want to read by simply looking at the first couple of words in the subject line. I have to open the [site-name] e-mail messages to see if they are comments or page creations/edits.

I like the idea of making things "homogeneous", but I'd like to see two categories of subject lines. One that combines posts and comments into one easily identifiable subject line and another that combines page creations and edits. That way I won't get "Blackberry thumb" as I try to stay current with the hundreds of Wikidot e-mail notifications I get each day.

-Ed

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Re: 2009/10/21

Ed Johnson 22 Oct 2009 03:47

NewPage was mangling the enter[ed] page title - now uses the title as entered.

Thanks for fixing this so quickly, Pieter!

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Re: 2009/10/21

pieterh 22 Oct 2009 10:08

I like the idea of making things "homogeneous", but I'd like to see two categories of subject lines. One that combines posts and comments into one easily identifiable subject line and another that combines page creations and edits. That way I won't get "Blackberry thumb" as I try to stay current with the hundreds of Wikidot e-mail notifications I get each day.

Goes to prove that we need to be more systematic about making designs in public before implementing them. Stay tuned for some fine tuning, then.

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