https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40673

--- Comment #4 from Fabrice Florin <[email protected]> 2012-10-11 01:00:33 
UTC ---
There seem to be several issues related to our feature request to show your
last selected filter each time you view a new feedback page.

As reported in Bug 40938, if you log out with the oversight request filter and
log back in, the system appears confused and gives the error message: "No
feedback has been posted yet." This could be related to the new feature .

As discussed above, when you go to a page which has no posts for your selected
filter, showing an empty list, there should be a message explaining "There is
no feedback for the filter you selected.", right below the filter dropdown
menu. Otherwise, it is a bit confusing to go to a feedback page and see
nothing, which could happen often if you selected an obscure filter.

Another related issue is that if you click on 'feedback' for any post on the
Central feedback page, you see that particular feedback post highlighted in
blue on its article page, but that can look pretty weird if it doesn't belong
in the proper filter category, as shown in the last screenshot below. (It says
the filter is 'oversight requested', but the highlighted item that appears
doesn't belong in that category, which is weird.) One possible solution to this
last issue would be to never attempt to show a highlighted blue post if it
doesn't belong in the selected filter.

Another possible solution to all of the last three issues above would be to no
longer attempt to show your last selected filter when you load a new feedback
page, but to always show the 'Most relevant' default. This is not ideal for
power users, who may want to keep the same settings across pages. But it is
simpler to understand for regular users, who may be confused by all these
strange filtered pages. 

Showing all feedback pages with the default 'Most relevant' filter may be the
most practical solution for now, given the issues above. Perhaps we could
experiment with this simpler setting for a week or so, to see if editors like
it. If they don't, this would give us more time to make the last selected
filter function work properly. 

Let us know what you think is a practical solution for now.

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