Mobile web has exactly the same problem. On mobile web in beta mode we have a prototype interface which tries to make the talk pages easy to digest (it basically disects the page into threaded discussions - currently only 1 level deep (although it could be taken further by identifying indents).
Talk pages as they are on desktop are just not mobile friendly. I'm not sure any styling can help... :) On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
