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I implemented #2659 and it’s much better now. In addition, there is now automated archiving (#2704) and manual archiving (#2711). Archived ideas live on a separate page, so the main page is faster.

I went ahead and implemented this feature since it was a good suggestion.

You can edit your discussion here.

I started a discussion earlier, and what I wrote in the “about” section of the discussion was not written well. I would like to revise it. Is this possible? If not, is there an intention to make this possible eventually?

Feature to collapse all criticized ideas of a discussion? Useful for todo lists.

This is not applicable anymore.

Need email notifications.

If it’s mostly done, what’s missing?

Now that diffs are formatted, they don’t omit unchanged lines anymore.

Proposed solution: allow people to archive ideas. Maybe only their own.

That could just annoy people and cause them to unsubscribe from emails.

Could do it only for ideas with pending criticisms. If they have pending criticisms, how important can they be? This has the added benefit of creating an incentive for proponents of ideas to address criticisms.

There could be periodic reminders and a review board to make it easier.

People might just forget to do this.

This could inadvertently hide dormant but important ideas.

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.

Proposed solution: edit a discussion to hide top-level ideas. That way, discussion owners can hide ideas they no longer deem relevant.

For example, completed tasks in discussions used as issue trackers, like this Meta thread, could be hidden so they don’t pollute the thread.

There could be a button for users to reveal hidden ideas so nothing is lost or hidden dishonestly. And direct links to hidden ideas would continue to work.

Old ideas can pollute discussions. Like in this meta thread.

I can still reproduce the issue by clicking on the button to collapse/expand an idea.

Feature idea: edit a discussion to hide top-level ideas. That way, discussion owners can hide ideas they no longer deem relevant.

For example, completed tasks in discussions used as issue trackers, like this Meta thread, could be hidden so they don’t pollute the thread.

There could be a button for users to reveal hidden ideas so nothing is lost or hidden dishonestly. And direct links to hidden ideas would continue to work.

Feature idea: edit a discussion to hide ideas. That way, discussion owners can hide ideas they no longer deem relevant. (For example, completed tasks in discussions used as issue trackers, like this Meta thread.) There could be a button for users to reveal hidden ideas so nothing is lost of hidden dishonestly.

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.