We are in the process of updating our user profile pages. We’ve been distilling and incorporating feedback from that process, with a lot of minor changes that we hope have helped. They include:
- Display the user’s bio (oops!)
- Return of user badges
- Changed the sort on the Following tab to have most recent followers on top
- Better image optimization for improved performance
- More natural links that restore the right-click menu
- Improved error handling and messages
In addition, we have two changes for the groups pages that were requested now live:
- Making the group member search a “begins with” so that the results are more natural
- Fixing the member sort options so it does what it says on the tin every time you ask
A clear and regularly repeated request was to feature list views for stories and comments, and we’ve been working on that. We’ve just released the change for the comments page. Here are some examples of comment pages you might want to explore:
Somehow I just love this 1635 portrait of Prince Balthasar rocking his fancy pony. Is it relevant to this diary? Umm, only that ponies make most things better. I’m sure the background is highly symbolic of his power and ruggedness at age six but obviously the most important point is that he had an awesome pony.
As a reminder of the goals for this comment page versus the old one:
- Make these pages width responsive so they are readable and usable on every device and screen size, from desktop to phones
- Make our pages more accessible to people with disabilities and people using assistive technology on the web. (This includes making linked areas large enough for fingers on touch devices and for people with tremors or other fine motor coordination issues, which is part of the WCAG official standard.)
- Integrate into our more modern codebase for improved maintainability and unified site behavior
We’re not done yet; we have some additional list views for stories coming, as well as a page of comment replies. We continue to seek your comments and feedback. Remember that kind and constructive comments that clearly describe a task you can’t do as well as before are the most successful at getting the changes you want and need.
