Timeline for Odd Highlighting of Questions with Favorite Tags
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| Dec 30, 2011 at 15:45 | comment | added | John Saunders | Yes, I'd prefer to see no questions, and a warning that my filters may have hidden them. | |
| Dec 30, 2011 at 11:31 | comment | added | balpha StaffMod | @JohnSaunders: If you, for example, had waterfall on your ignored list, but at some point visited that tag's page anyway -- would you want to see no question? | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 21:42 | comment | added | John Saunders | I shouldn't need to look at the URL. I shouldn't need to look at a mode indicator. I should be able to glance at the page and see "this is a list of questions", and all "list of questions" should look and behave the same way. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 21:24 | comment | added | Dan McGrath | Oh, I'm not disagreeing that didn't happen. I'm disagreeing that it outweighs the negative. I'd say it currently is an example of the general case "I shouldn't put UI elements on a page that don't add something". Think of it as a Strunk & White "Every word should have a purpose" by for UI design. Besides, it takes 2 seconds to look at the URL to see you are in a 'search mode' and it took me maybe 10 seconds to work out what the highlighting did when I saw this Q. I don't think it is that hard. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 21:17 | comment | added | John Saunders | Sorry, just happened. But more importantly, it's an illustration of the general case of, "I shouldn't have to remember that I'm in a mode". | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 21:16 | comment | added | Dan McGrath | I think there has to be a line drawn where edge cases become too small to worry about. Leaving a webpage open while on vacation then being slightly confused when you look at it a week later upon your return - I personally think that is on the wrong side of the line. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 21:13 | comment | added | John Saunders | So, today I click on a tag, then go on vacation. I come back next week, and don't remember that I clicked on a tag. Or, I'm busy actually doing my job, and don't want to use the brain space to record the fact that I clicked on a tag. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 19:53 | comment | added | Dan McGrath | I disagree. I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that you know you have clicked on a tag. What advantage would highlighting every question give you? By doing that, you would be reducing the information on that page. The way it stands, if I click on a favorite tag, I can see which questions are my favorite for reasons other than that tag. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 19:44 | comment | added | John Saunders | I can't say that I like this. In order to understand the meaning of a highlighted question, I have to stop and remember that I'm in a special "mode". I think that highlighting should mean the same thing regardless of how I got to the display with the highlighted questions. | |
| Dec 28, 2011 at 19:38 | history | answered | Dan McGrath | CC BY-SA 3.0 |