For the Flow team, I'm definitely interested in talking more about it. I can't comment on the current state of the code, but surfacing active, relevant conversations to users is going to be a focus once we've got the feature built to a good standard.
I think discussions are especially good to show mobile users, because it's a comfortable way to contribute from your phone. Editing an article on the phone is challenging, but an open text field in a Flow conversation is perfect. On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:33 AM, S Page <[email protected]> wrote: > (Cc'ing Flow list) > > > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:44 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In the alpha mode of mobile we show a number inside the talk icon that >> shows how many open talk topics there are on a page. >> > What do you mean by "open"? > > Also I wonder if this is something Flow is thinking about. >> > Sure. A Flow board is a "window" onto all its topics, it initially > displays the first 10. An upcoming rewrite will hint how many there are in > total at the bottom of a TOC; I think Flow could update the same page > property you're using. Flow can have topics in multiple states: closed with > a summary and hidden, so we'd have to figure out what to count. > > One issue is on a mature wiki there may be discussions going back years > but little or no recent activity. Flow will soon give you an option to > display topics by most recent activity as well as by date created, but you > have to visit the talk page to explore this. There are ways to compute how > "hot" a board is based on counts and recent-ness of > topics/posts/contributors, but a wiki isn't a popularity contest. > > I don't mind the number in the discussion icon and I think we should try > it in the Winter Fixed header. IMO on the desktop Hovercards might be a > better place to show more information about activity on a talk page/Flow > board. > > The code has been stagnating for some time, which is a real shame in >> my opinion as it surfaces the talk page and discussions more. It works >> by generating a number of sections on each save and storing them in a >> page property to avoid performance implications. >> >> I personally find it very intriguing when I see a high discussion >> count on what seems like a non-controversial topic. e.g. Tofu has 37 >> open topics and makes me curious to click on it and read what people >> have been discussing around it [2] >> >> Either way can we make a decision and either kill this code, or bring >> it into beta mode? >> >> [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco?mobileaction=alpha >> [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu?mobileaction=alpha >> > > -- > =S Page Features engineer >
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