A few months ago I migraded a few large lists to MailMan, and since then I have been collecting various user interface comments... I believe some of this can be changed through templates, but I am posting it more for future help than anything. Specifically because a lot of people gripe about open source software because the UI's tend to be lacking in many ways--often because they are developed by techies for techies, not for common users...
1) Too much information Each page presents a lot of information and I have noticed it tends to scare people. Specifically, the mailman/listinfo/[list] page by default overwealms most normal users. Perhaps something as simple as a top section which is less terse, welcoming the user to the [list] information page and presenting them with the things they can do there, in a simple user focused list, such as: ------------- Welcome to the mylist-foo information page. From here you can: * Subscribe to mylist-foo * Unsubscribe or Change your subscription to mylist-foo * Browse historical archives of mylist-foo * Configure mylist-foo (administrators only) You can send a message to this list by emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------- With the default page it almost appears to be information overload--even though the information is clearly seperated and organized, I see their eyes just glaze over the second they load the page. At the very least, I think the 'to Change your subscription' MUST be put into its own category, the biggest request I get is people asking how to unsubscribe, and they insist they have viewed the listinfo page yet cannot find anywhere to unsubscribe it. Because it is lumped into the same area as list admin, they just skip it. The administrative pages also have similar issues, but it is less of a problem because most admins are more technically adept... 2) Change-Address feature The ability for somebody to go into their 'account' with an old email and password and then change it to their new email address would help immensely--even better would be a site-wide email change where the user could request that their email is changed on each and every list. (or for that matter, to commit any user configurable change to all lists on the site). 3) Automated cleanup of disabled users This has been discussed recently, but I would also like to put in my 2 bits for an automated cleanup of disabled users. I am willing to help work on a UI adjustment, but I am not willing to learn python (I have enough time dumped into those languages I know, I dont need to learn another one :) I can help from the HTML perspective, however. -Brandon Gillespie _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
