Dennis Hackethal
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Having features to both collapse an idea and hide all its comments seems like an opportunity for unification. Why not just go with collapsing and remove the ability to hide all comments?
#1775·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month agoInclude (preview of) content in idea URLs: '/ideas/123-first-30-or-so-chars-of-idea-here'.
Done as of fcf578c.
#1771·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month agoFetching the idea is not necessary if the feature is backwards compatible. Can still just use /ideas/123.
As noted in #1777, fetching the idea actually helps. Well worth the overhead.
#1769·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month agoThat would mean fetching an idea to compute the path for each hashtag. Overhead?
This actually helps to prevent rendering links with IDs that don’t point to any existing idea.
Use friendly IDs for ideas? A ‘mixture’ where URLs say '/ideas/123-first-30-or-so-chars-of-idea-here'.
Include (preview of) content in idea URLs: '/ideas/123-first-30-or-so-chars-of-idea-here'.
#1763·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month agoUse friendly IDs for ideas? A ‘mixture’ where URLs say '/ideas/123-first-30-or-so-chars-of-idea-here'.
Wouldn’t even need friendly ID for that since the URL would contain the ID. Would only need to override to_param to concatenate the idea’s ID and content.
#1769·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month agoThat would mean fetching an idea to compute the path for each hashtag. Overhead?
Seems like minor overhead. It’s not like there are tons of user-generated hashtags everywhere.
Elaborate/clarify
Not if the feature is backwards compatible.
Fetching the idea is not necessary if the feature is backwards compatible. Can still just use /ideas/123.
#1769·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month agoThat would mean fetching an idea to compute the path for each hashtag. Overhead?
Not if the feature is backwards compatible.
#1763·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month agoUse friendly IDs for ideas? A ‘mixture’ where URLs say '/ideas/123-first-30-or-so-chars-of-idea-here'.
That would mean fetching an idea to compute the path for each hashtag. Overhead?
#1764·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month agoThe way IG solves this is by rendering the form in a fixed position. It’s still on the bottom but always remains visible.
Facebook does it this way, too.
#453·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year agoThe more ideas there are in a discussion, the further the form for top-level ideas is pushed down. Then people don’t know how to submit a new idea and comment on an existing one instead, even if it’s unrelated, as happened with #448. So I need to make this clearer.
Reddit is a bit different because they have multiple subreddits/communities, but each community has top-level posts which people can then comment on. They have a completely separate page/UI for top-level posts. And then directly underneath a top-level post, there’s a textarea saying “Join the conversation”.
#1765·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month agoThat would make idea URLs more meaningful, but there’s something simple and beautiful about the shorter URLs that only have the numeric ID.
Could have backwards compatibility for the short version and continue using the hashtag in the UI. Best of both worlds?
#1763·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month agoUse friendly IDs for ideas? A ‘mixture’ where URLs say '/ideas/123-first-30-or-so-chars-of-idea-here'.
That would make idea URLs more meaningful, but there’s something simple and beautiful about the shorter URLs that only have the numeric ID.
#453·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year agoThe more ideas there are in a discussion, the further the form for top-level ideas is pushed down. Then people don’t know how to submit a new idea and comment on an existing one instead, even if it’s unrelated, as happened with #448. So I need to make this clearer.
The way IG solves this is by rendering the form in a fixed position. It’s still on the bottom but always remains visible.
Use friendly IDs for ideas? A ‘mixture’ where URLs say '/ideas/123-first-30-or-so-chars-of-idea-here'.
#1761·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month agoFriendly IDs for discussions would be nice. With automatic redirects for numeric ID from legacy links.
Done as of e6a90e5.
Friendly IDs for discussions would be nice. With automatic redirects for numeric ID from legacy links.
All emails have unsubscribe links, but people shouldn’t be able to unsubscribe from system emails like password resets.
#1753·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month agoI should revisit this now that I have email infrastructure in place.
Done as of 9c14b22.
#1755·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month agoNewly added comments keep animating when hidden and then unhidden.
Fixed as of 985430e.
Newly added comments keep animating when hidden and then unhidden.
#1752·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month agoSee #595. The form for new ideas is pushed to the very bottom of the discussion page. For long discussion, that means users won’t know where to submit new ideas.
Duplicate of #453.