Re: flagging a forum

Posted by Mike Wilson on Dec 29, 2008; 1:45pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/missing-nabble1-functions-in-nabble2-tp2042515p2088864.html

Aaah, finally found it! Thanks for your patience ;-)

Yet another reflection about web usability is that on Nabble1 I immediately found this feature thanks to the "in my face" menu that says "Favorite Forums" (inner voice: aha, the site supports saving a list of my favorite forums). Again looking in this menu when on a forum page gives me the "Add this Forum" choice. Perfect.

On Nabble2 the flag icon appears in different places without an explanation about the difference and is quite small. I didn't even notice the one for the list and for the other two flags my inner voice said:

message flag: "this is probably how I flag this message as inappropriate/abuse, I'll stay away from that"
user flag: "hum. flag this user as abusive? confused... I'll definitively stay away from that."

So, while I think the Nabble1 concept is far far superior, I think the following would be needed to get reasonable usability for the Nabble2 design:
* replace flag with star ("starred" items is fairly well-known)
* add explanatory title beside flag/star (or at least as tooltip)
* move the forum flag/star up and to the right of the forum name

Best regards
Mike