1. Filter sort bar

2. Summary cards for posts authored by current user, filtered and sorted, are stacked in the List pane with no spacing.

User can click on a post summary card to see it in the view pane (see here).

• What does the List pane show if current user has not authored any posts? @Jon F

• If user has authored any posts that have been pinned, does they show up here? @Jon F

  • If so, do they show on top, spaced from the rest of the post summary card?

• What if the user wants to see authored responses and comments? @Jon F

1. Filter sort bar

2. Summary cards for all posts that are allowed to be viewed by the current user, filtered and sorted, are stacked in the List pane with no spacing.

   1. How many posts will be initially loaded? @Kshitij Sobti

      1. Large display should be able to see full left pane at low zoom levels.

   2. Will posts be automatically loaded upon scroll? @Jon F

      1. If so, how many will be loaded next considering performance? @Kshitij Sobti

3. Pinned posts will appear on top

   1. Pinned post cards will be spaced from other posts.

   2. All pinned posts be shown on top? @Jon F

   3. Do we want to put a limit on number of posts that can be pinned? @Jon F

   4. How will multiple pinned posts be sorted? @Jon F

   5. Do filter and sort apply on pinned posts? @Jon F

Users can click on a post summary card to see it in the view pane (see here).

What does the List pane show if no posts exist? @Jon F

1. Search bar for topics.

2. Course-wide topics will always be listed on top. Confirm? @Jon F

3. Categories and subcategories are listed after the course-wide topics. Subcategories for each category are listed after the category.

   1. What is the default sort order for these? Sort by created?

Clicking anywhere on the topic summary card for course-wide topics and subcategory will render the list of posts in that topic.

Posts i'm following topic in legacy experience has now been moved to filters.

Clicking anywhere on the topic post card for category topic lists topic post cards for all subcategories in that category.

1. Once a category topic is selected, the breadcrumb bar would appear. Breadcrumb bar will have categories and subcategories, selectable as a drop down menu.

2. Search bar will remain there.

3. Selected category topic will be listed on top.

4. Topic summary cards for subcategories belonging to the selected category will be listed below.

Clicking anywhere on the topic summary card for course-wide and subcategory topics will render the list of summary cards for posts in that topic.

1. Once a course-wide topic or subcategory topic is selected, the breadcrumb bar would appear.

2. Filter sort bar

3. Post summary cards belonging to selected subcategory.

Selecting course-wide topics will render a single level of hierarchy in breadcrumb bar.

When viewing a post in view pane, the layout will be as follows:

1. Post view area

2. Response view area

3. Comment view area (inside parent response area)

4. Button to load more comments

   1. How many comments will be loaded by default? @Jon F

5. Button to load more responses

   1. How many responses will be loaded by default? @Jon F

6. Button for adding a response

7. Button for adding a comment

8. Sort by: By post time

   1. What other sorting options need to be there?

9. Number of responses being shown

Post view area

1. Post title

2. Username

3. Avatar with icon (same logic as here)

4. Post content

5. More actions (more details)

6. Post topic

7. Following (Filled if logged-in user is following)

8. Liked (Filled if logged-in user has liked the post)

9. Time lapsed since creation

Where show what group is this post visible to (for admins, moderators and TAs)? @Jon F

Response view are

1. Avatar

2. Username

3. Icon but what does it represent? TA or Staff?

4. Response content

5. Button to mark response as answer (by post author, moderator and staff)

6. More options for response (more details)

7. Like button with number of likes. Filled if logged-in user has liked response.

   1. Who will it be visible to?

8. Time elapsed since response creation

9. Comment area having a single comment

   1. What will multiple comments look like? @Jon F

10. Username

11. Avatar

12. Comment content

13. Time elapsed since comment creation

14. More options for comment (more details)

• Response marked as answer looks like this.

• Response marked as answer moves towards the top of the list and is rendered separately. @Jon F can you please describe or add to mockups, how the response marked as answered will be rendered differently compared to other responses? Is there any spacing etc?

For My posts and All posts:

1. Button to open filter and sort menu.

2. Selected filter and sort.

3. Left two columns contain filtering options

4. Right column contains sort options for posts

• What filter and sort options should be available for My posts? For example Reported and Following shouldn’t be there.

• Should Reported be only available to moderators?

  • Reported should only be visible to staff, admins and community TAs.

• If user selects Unanswered, Questions is selected automatically.

• If user selects Unread, Discussions is selected automatically. This should not be the case since Questions can be unread too. @Jon F

A typical post summary card contains:

1. Avatar with icon

2. Post title

3. Username

4. Initial few words of the post that can fit within one line in the card

5. Like button (Filled if post already liked)

   1. Is like button clickable on summary card? @Jon F

   2. What appearance for mouse-over? @Jon F

6. Follow button (Filled if post already followed)

   1. Is follow button clickable on summary card? @Jon F

   2. What appearance for mouse-over? @Jon F

7. Total number of responses on the post

   1. Are comments included in the count? @Jon F

8. Time elapsed since posted (integer with short notation for seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years)

Selected post summary card will have a grey background and a vertical bar on the right.

Appearance of icons near avatar will vary depending on the post type (see image left):

1. for type Discussion (no icon)

2. for type Question

3. for type Bug/issue

Posts with type Question and Bug/issue may have additional labels (see image left):

1. A Question will have a label Answered, if it has been marked as answered.

2. A Bug/issue will have a label Resolved, if it has been marked as resolved.

   1. Who can mark?

   2. Will there be additional roles for bug/issue?

• How cards for unread posts will be rendered?

• How will the count for unread comments/responses be shown? @Jon F

• How will a reported post summary card with Reported identifier be rendered?

  • As seen on the left.

Summary card for General topics and Subcategory looks like this

1. General topic or subcategory name

2. Number of posts with type Discussion

3. Number of posts with type Question

4. Number of posts that have been reported in this topic (visible only to moderators/admins/TAs)

   1. Does this icon show up if responses or comments have been reported as well?