How will this play in with notifications on apps to close the loop?
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> 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
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager for Platform and Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation
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