Internal UX review of new discussions MFE
- Aamir Ayub
- Wes Mason [he / him / his] (Deactivated)
- Marco Morales (Deactivated)
Analytics
This document is intended to track bugs/improvements required on the new discussions MFE recently enabled on stage.
Details of the bug, evidence, and how to reproduce should be added and updated to the Jira ticket, and the link of the Jira ticket needs to be mentioned here.
Preferably use only this course for testing purposes to keep results consistent.
Status can be Reported In progress FIXED deferred Blocked closed
Pending tasks
Done tasks
Open Items
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| 1 | Initial Landing View
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| 2 | Text leaking out from post summary. | high |
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| 3 | Update Discussions Height in Main MFE on Post Load Determine way to update iframe size for LTI block if discussions post has content longer than the current iframe, eliminating need for scrolling on the right sidebar, and forcing the footer further down the page. | low | Yet to be groomed. Ignore for now. | |
| 4 | Questions have responses that can be Marked as Answer; Discussions have responses / comments that can be Endorsed. | medium |
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| 5 | URL Improvements Non-critical for now but it would be helpful to ensure discussion forums can link to specific post areas even in the main discussion application, meaning the URLs should be updated with some sort of URL pattern that would link users to the specific post being viewed. (Some questions here on requirements so not immediately actionable but marking here for now regardless. |
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| 6 | Padding in TinyMCE text input areas - currently text is all the way up to the left but some space should exist between the input area boundary on all sides. | medium |
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| 7 | Update configured TinyMCE plugins - we should look into a wider range of plugins, not quite as broad as what we plan to do for the Text Editor, but other options would be valuable including:
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| 8 | Reloading a page when a post is visible, should reload the same post. However it redirects to the topics list as seen below. | medium |
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| 9 | API call to fetch posts in new MFE takes longer some times even for a course with 5 learners and 10 posts. |
| LOW | Not high priority item. Feedback from jfay on loading icon pending. |
| 10 | Add icons to paragon and discussions experience | https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/PAR-700 | medium |
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| 11 | Post view area should extend to the bottom of the iframe. | medium |
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| 12 | Follow button on post summary is not working as intended upon mouse-over and when clicked. | Low |
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| 13 | Navigating to Topics tab does not send the api call to update topic stats. | medium |
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| 14 | Post “reported” in legacy is not marked as reported in the new MFE. | medium |
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| 15 | From edX team via feedback button (link): “Bug: If searching for a specific username in the new experience, no results are displayed. This is a big issue for internal teams and course teams.” | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pdoj8vU3gpdx53Q2gq-S00NHOFZci-VGyZEXKYKW5y8/edit?usp=sharing | low | Need grooming. |
| 16 | Drop shadow of discussion navigation bar seems different. | low |
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| 17 | My Posts tab showing posts not linked to user. | medium |
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| 18 | Some course roles are unable to access the new MFE | high |
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Resolved Bugs / Items
These might still need review but the PRs associated with them are marked done
Bug/ improvement suggestion | Jira | Priority | Comments | |
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| 1 | In reference to Nav bar:
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| 2 | Blocks Educator Preview Rollout Adding a comment on a response does not show the comment | high |
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| 3 | Blocks Educator Preview Rollout Discussions xblock fails to load in a unit on stage. | high |
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| 4 | Non-Breaking Space character shows up in post summary. | medium |
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| 5 | "Likes" count is showing in the absence of likes. | medium |
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| 6 | Message icon showing with count=1 in the absence of comments or responses on the post. | medium |
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| 7 | Post/topic lists should be independently scrollable. | medium |
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| 8 | Legacy indicator of unread post still showing. | medium |
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| 9 | Missing indicator for new responses and comments. | medium |
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| 10 | Empty states / cases for various pages still missing. | high |
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| 11 | Blocks Educator Preview Rollout | high |
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| 12 | Blocks Educator Preview Rollout | high |
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| 13 | Blocks Educator Preview Rollout Replace: We've made some changes to this experience! (Preview for educators only) | high |
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| 14 | Marked Answer message bar - username link colour needs updating Currently the username of the person who marked a response as the answer renders in a standard link colour but this needs to be white to be readable against the green background | medium |
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| 15 | Answered and Endorsed markers are missing on responses in new MFE. | low |
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| 16 | Sort option missing for responses. | low | Deferred for future milestone. | |
| 17 | From edX team via feedback button (link): “UX: Posts and topics, font, etc. are too big and not easy to navigate. In a 13" laptop 1 post almost fills up. Same when Adding a post. Could make things smaller and make the blank box to fill up a text bigger. It's too small and if you're adding a big text, you can lost track of it easily.” | high |
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| 18 | Prod: Message counts on DemoX course looks weird. | high | Not possible to verify until next time we enable new MFE on prod. | |
| 19 | From edX team via feedback button (link): “Bug: If reverting to the legacy experience and searching, then clicking "show posts by {username}" , it automatically reverts to the new experience.” | high |
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| 20 | Post summary contains more than 1 lines of the post content. | high |
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| 21 | Post summaries disappear upon scroll to the bottom. | high |
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| 22 | Reported indicator showing different on post summary | medium |
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| 23 | New posts do not reload upon scroll to the bottom. | HIGH |
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| 24 | Hover over selection question type in a new post (or while editing a post) for Discussion versus Question should use the pointer cursor to make it clearer that this is a selection option / input. | medium |
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| 25 | Preview is missing for text in TinyMCE. | closed | - | |
| 26 | Navigating to a topic from “Related to” field is not working. | Low | Not working. Clicking topic name routes to xblock of the topic instead of the topic in the | |
| 27 | Response/ comment content persists in the editor even after the response/comment has been submitted. | Low |
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| 28 | Following filter options are not working as intended:
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