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People might just forget to do this.

This requires manual action. Could mean a lot of work depending on the discussion.

Proposed solution: ideas could be archived automatically if they haven’t been revised or criticized in 90 days, say.

This problem will surface rarely – users would have to hit cmd + f immediately upon opening the page. For most users, by the time they start typing, the page is already fully loaded. So this seems like a small price to pay in exchange for discussion pages that always render faster.

Now that parts of the page are purposely and visually disabled (see #2694), users may not expect everything to be working 100% during a loading state.

I now purposely prevent interactions with buttons and gutters, and gray them out, until the page is fully loaded. So instead of broken hover effects and interactions, the user gets intentionally disabled elements, and this intentionality is communicated to them.

Once the page is fully loaded, buttons and gutters are enabled and visually restored.

Since the browser’s loading indicator remains visible until then, this behavior shouldn’t violate user expectation.

That means duplicate functionality; anytime I customize Devise in the future, I’ll have to remember to adjust this one method as well.

I could extract discussions#show into a new, separate StreamController or something like it. That controller would not use Devise.

Then again, I’d want to redirect users to the sign-in page (and then ideally back to where they were trying to go).

Duplicate of #2677/#2683.

While ideas load, cmd +f won’t work.

I could render the first ~10 top-level ideas immediately and only render the rest as turbo frames off screen. By the time the user scrolls down, they should all be loaded.

Yes, it would be even worse than #2677 (see criticism #2681), where only top-level ideas were turbo frames.

Too many requests when there are enough top-level ideas.

That means cmd + f won’t always work.

For large discussions, wouldn’t that flood the server with requests?

Feature idea: pay people to address criticisms (either revise an idea and check off criticisms or counter-criticize).

This page used to take ~3.5 seconds to load. Now it renders within 600ms :)

‘Veritula’ is a difficult name, people don’t know how to spell or pronounce it. They can’t easily remember it.

‘Renaissance’ isn’t exactly easy to spell either.

The following commits should address this:

• 3af3966 Clarify in title that someone revised an idea (rather than originated idea)

  The HTML title now says ‘Idea x revised by…’

• 6c70cea Underneath idea, indicate that someone revised an idea (rather than submitted it)

  It says ‘Dennis Hackethal, 1 day ago’ for new ideas, ‘Dennis Hackethal revised 1 day ago’ for revisions

• d20d386 Explain that users can revise each others’ ideas

  As part of the alert on the revision page, when the user is about to revise someone else’s idea.

• c5748e3 Turn ‘revise’ link into ‘revise their idea’ when it’s someone else’s idea

  Underneath each idea.

• e0fbd41 List user under each revision in version history

  So that each version is clearly attributed to the corresponding user.

• 06d3241 List contributors at top of version history

  Comma-separated list to see all contributors at a glance. Eg see here

Changing the view logic so that the controller can stream each deeply nested idea separately sounds non-trivial. It’s not clear to me how to do that currently. It may be possible someday if I adjust Hiccdown to allow the use of enumerators or something like that.

I could use ActionController::Live to stream top-level ideas to the page one by one. Instant page load.

Complex, requires non-trivial scroll listeners correlated to deeply nested ideas.

Just saw this app that lets you play ambient sounds at home: https://x.com/mirdhaaakanksha/status/1983238682154021218