How will this play in with notifications on apps to close the loop? On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Monte, Yuvi, Danny (PM for Flow) and I met today to discuss our way forwards > with discussions on apps. > > The statement of the problem is that the apps currently don't surface > discussions at all; both article talk and user talk are not made apparent to > the user. This creates problems for power users and new users alike; power > users workflows are built around discussions so we serve them poorly, and > new users can't interact with anyone, which includes things like new users > being unable to read vandalism warnings. > > Our solution needs to let people participate meaningfully in discussions, > both on article talk pages and also meta-discussions (user talk pages, etc.) > > So the question is, do we do a styling pass on talk pages to make them > easier to use on the apps and surface those talk pages, or do we just wait > for Flow (for some definition of "wait")? We were leaning towards the > former, but wanted to make sure we'd considered all the variables before > proclaiming we had a solution. > > We discussed. We felt that waiting for Flow introduces too many unknowns; > Flow will not be deployed to user talk pages for at least six months, which > is a long time to wait to get discussions implemented. Even then, it may be > even longer before we can reliably say "all discussions are on Flow". We > can't afford to wait that long to serve the need for discussions in the app. > > This email in a nutshell: Waiting for Flow is insufficient. We want to do a > styling pass on talk pages to make them usable on apps. > > Let me know if you have any questions! > > Thanks, > Dan > > -- > Dan Garry > Associate Product Manager for Platform and Mobile Apps > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >
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