What would you improve or change in the Habrahabr interface?

Question

Habr

In this question, I would like to collect answers from users who wish to make some changes to the Habrahabr interface.

Various small changes and improvements are welcome. No need to add comments like “make Habrahabr fixed at 800 pixels already” or “recolor all links in orange”. The conversation is about those small things in the interface that your eyes most often cling to.

Perhaps you would like to change or add something: small changes in the display of comments, questions, posts, text somewhere on the site. Or let's say you don't like the comma after the username in comments. Perhaps some small functional innovation that would take root here. If you feel you are ready to share similar thoughts, please feel free to do so. I will be very grateful to you.

The format (if possible) is: one answer to a given question, one improvement of any kind. In the comments - his discussion.

Answer 1

Remove commas after nicknames in comments to topics. Her eye catches on. Although it is still outside the link, it merges with its underline, it turns out such a curl - dirty.

Answer 2

"Profile - My": open the "Comments" tab first (default or configurable). I think we all have more comments than posts, and we look at their ratings more often. And now there is an extra intermediate click.

Answer 3

I really want to edit comments in the topic within N-minutes (I think 2-3 minutes, no more) from the moment of sending, but no later than someone wants to answer it. Those. when you click the “reply” link, editing the previous comment is blocked by an Ajax request, and even if its author has already started editing, he is informed that sorry, username, you are late. It happens often - I saw an error, the parser is a sucker and I need to help him, etc.
Now I don’t know, before the preview of the comment did not coincide with its final display - they should be 100% identical

Answer 4

It's a pity for the small button "Increase karma" next to the nickname of the author of the topic, it was so convenient to upvote without unnecessary gestures.

Answer 5

In each topic, next to the asterisk (adding to favorites), add the button “Follow this topic” (you can use the button with the “eye” icon).
The titles of all topics marked in this way are displayed on a special page in the user's profile, where they are displayed as a list of titles with the number of new unread comments in each topic indicated in brackets.
Example:
Algorithms → Continuous wavelet transformation (7)
Apple iPhone → Found a way to jailbreak iOS 4.1 (21)
Search engines and technologies → Peaceful botnet (5)
This is necessary to quickly view new comments on currently interesting articles.
Plus, in this watch list, give the ability to remove topics from this list (for example, to the left of each heading in the list, there is a button with a crossed-out eye).

Answer 6

On the occasion of editing the indents, this would be an extra pixel to remove -

Of course, it is not so critical, but it also creates a small visual ripple.

Answer 7

Completely block the account for a certain period of time while having a certain negative karma. Tired of comments from insane people.

Answer 8

Profile / Q&A:
1. The ratings and the status of the answers are not visible (they are visible in the comments)
2. The comments left are not visible (those that are in small text)
3. It takes a long time to get there: link% username% -> mine -> Q&A -> answers
In general I would like some dashboard, with quick links and latest changes:
habreffect.ru/files/7a0/494027f37/fdg.png

Answer 9

It would be nice to add alt-text for the buttons "add to friends", "write a message", "invite to blog" in the user profile (aka habracenter). So that when you hover the mouse, the name of the action pops up. At first glance, the purpose of the "invite to blog" and "add to friends" buttons is not very clear.

Answer 10

I think it's enough to look through the hub for custom extensions, it will immediately be clear what people are missing. Of course, I can name here those that I use myself (and which, therefore, I consider necessary and convenient), but does it make sense? ..

Answer 11

After a gathering in this thread, I consider it urgently necessary to highlight new comments (both the main ones and the “second level”) - it’s unrealistically hard to re-read the entire page every time, remembering what I’ve already read and what I haven’t read and look out for anything new. Without highlighting and a counter of new comments, QA are inconvenient for discussion, just answer once and forget

Answer 12

You need a separate button or a hidden panel in order to inform the author about some problems with the post (typos, etc.). It is desirable to have a panel where you can display already sent messages so as not to duplicate them. It is inconvenient to use habramail for this, it is wrong to clog comments.

Answer 13

I don’t have enough in the hint “you can use html tags” to click on this very tag and get it in the comment window. Maybe even empty.

Answer 14

If the little things, then
- The interval between paragraphs.
- "Snooze" button (To read later)
- Remove the "To Twitter" and "To Facebook" buttons if their details are not indicated in the profile.
- Remove tags in the lists that cannot be used in comments
- Make _always_ open habrapost when clicking on the title. You also need to somehow standardize “Read more →”, otherwise it’s not comfortable to use it. Now I've come to a system of clicking on "read comments" and Home on the keyboard. Objects are static, fast and automatically executed.
[Static is good. When Office 2007 was being developed, they tried to make it convenient to use all elements are static, do not change their position and design.] It is desirable to add a function in which, if an article weighs more than 5MB, its size was written instead of the original "a lot of traffic !!!"

Answer 15

Use a single interface and a single comment engine in all sections of Habr: in comments to topics, in personal habramail, and in questions / answers. I already wrote about this earlier
. everywhere when commenting it is necessary:
​​- only two entities: the author's text (article/question) and comments (answers) to it [in Q&A now there are extra entities].
- all comments are chronologically arranged from top to bottom [in habrapost, for some reason, the opposite is now done].
- there is a multi-level branching and a tree-like hierarchy of answers / comments [in Q&A this is not currently available].
- all comments, regardless of the degree of nesting, can be evaluated. [the Q&A currently evaluates only first-level responses, but the gist may be contained in further discussion].
- everywhere there should be a preview before sending a response / comment [in habramail this is not currently available].
- everywhere you need a plate on the side with a green button for updating comments and a counter of unread comments [in Q&A this is not currently available].
In total, I propose:
1. For all sections of Habr, take as a basis a single implementation of the commenting model (the one that is currently used for commenting on topics: only two entities, comments from top to bottom, hierarchical comment tree, preview before sending).
2. For personal habramail, remove letters and comments from this model.
3. For questions/answers, add to this model the possibility for the author of the question to indicate the best/correct answer.

Answer 16

Add a formatting panel when writing comments, questions / answers, habramail.
A good implementation example: habrahabr.ru/blogs/ext/103540/

Answer 17

During the unavailability of the resource (technical work), in addition to the text notification “Work is in progress, we will come back soon,” give users a simple toy like 1 KB chess, pakman, tetris, or some other fun nonsense that kills time.

Answer 18

1. Fix search - incorrectly processes requests. I somehow already explained this in a now non-existent habratopic, try entering a phrase from some comment into the search, and you will get EVERYTHING, but not the comment from which the phrase was taken.
2. Remove autologin! Constantly, every new day, I stumble upon different garbage - from the inability to see the pros / cons to the freezing of the comment submission form. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I did not turn off the laptop for 70 days?
3. Sometimes it happens that I reply to my comment after 6 minutes, and so much has not yet passed by habrachas, and after trying, I have to wait another 5 minutes. It doesn't take ten minutes!
4. When you inadvertently click on a link twice in a row, Habr for some reason tells me that “something went wrong,” although he clicks on the link.
5. Non-native buttons - it was.
7. WYSIWYG'a is not enough, really. For comments.
6. Remove the color of the arrows and crosses / checkmarks for voting for people with negative karma and in general for those who cannot vote.
9. Ability to download topics without pictures - for example, when the computer slows down or when I'm on a narrow channel.
10. The ability to join a private blog directly from the page "this topic is posted in a private blog ... ... join the blog to read it."
Phew, that's it :) In the meantime, I'll do almost all of this with the help of a firebug.

Answer 19

I would make subtabs sane. There is even an operating time similar from one project.
It's still a very long time to crawl into my comments, or even more so into answers in QA.

Answer 20

It is necessary to make sure that a person cannot downvote posts without writing a reason. Well, so that if the reason is left, the minuses would go to his karma)

Answer 21

In Q&A, make the division of questions by topic .
In my opinion, it's better to just publish questions as regular topics in existing thematic blogs. Alternatively, leave them inside a separate Q&A section, but with a thematic division inside.

Answer 22

In the Q&A section, make a plate on the side with updating comments and with a counter of unread messages (as everywhere else).

Answer 23

Currently, a different set of HTML tags is allowed inside a topic and inside comments.
Either make the same allowed tags everywhere, or make the hint “you can use html tags” different in topics and in comments, so that it reflects exactly those tags that can really be used in this place.
For example, now the tooltip for comments contains the tags: video, h4, h5, h6, ul, ol, li, hr - but they cannot really be used in comments, and this tooltip misleads many.

Answer 24

Bring the habraparser to mind so that it correctly processes URLs and always shows in the preview what will be when publishing.

Answer 25

The title of the link topic, in my opinion, should refer to the discussion / commenting on the article on Habré, as well as for ordinary topics. And to go to the indicated article, it is better to make a bold link next to the title in the form of the text [Link] or the corresponding icon.
It's just that the interface should be as uniform as possible within the resource and should meet the user's expectations to the maximum. If the user is accustomed to go to the discussion in ordinary topics by clicking on the title from the main one, then he should have the same familiar opportunity on link topics. And now, clicking on the title of the topic-link sends it to another resource - for newcomers to Habré, this behavior is unusual and unexpected.

Answer 26

Correcting the biduin proposal .
Since -50 karma can be received by a normal person by writing an unsuccessful comment that has fallen against the mainstream, it is impossible to delete below the threshold.
I would suggest making the process self-regulating. Every day the robot deletes / bans the most hacky. Then the incentive to become -1 and write all sorts of shit will disappear immediately :)

Answer 27

I really miss the ability to turn off the display on the main page, blog posts that are not at all interesting.

Answer 28

Hat too high. Together with advertising, on my not very large monitor, it turns out that the text of the site after loading takes up no more than half of the screen, I immediately have to scroll down. At the same time, the header is almost empty.
Of course, this is such a design, and it is quite interesting, but my suggestion is to think about lifting the main text up.

Answer 29

I would move the block with the "Best of 24 hours" to the top always on the right. And then he somehow wanders around the sidebar, but in fact IMHO is the most important.

Answer 30

Why not here ? Here are some more ideas.

Answer 31

In Habralent, crosses, please, at the same distance in a line, as on Digg. And then if you want to sort the news and remove several at once, a lot of movements.
A "do not recommend" button would have been nice in the short version of the feed.

Answer 32

Translate questions / answers into the category of ordinary topics. In fact, this is a kind of topic-survey, only the question here is open, without the proposed answers.
They constantly get confused in the Q&A section and write a question that is not supposed to receive the only correct answer, but they want to discuss and just listen to different opinions (for example, this question is not at all the question for which Q&A was supposed to be).

Answer 33

If someone writes to me via habramail, then the title of his first message in the dialogue feed is tinted pale orange, as if it were my message. It is not right.

Answer 34

Show each user the time of topics / comments in his local time (at least for registered users who indicated their region in the profile).

Answer 35

The hint "you can use html tags" next to the comment editing window should only be shown to those who can actually use them (who has karma >= 0).
For those who have karma < 0, do not show a hint about html tags, but it’s better to even explicitly and noticeably write: “your negative karma does not allow you to use html tags.”
Plus, for users with negative karma, hide the formatting panel (which I wrote about above) so that tags are not stuck in vain from there.

Answer 36

Make it possible to search for text only inside your own topics and comments, or better with the ability to specify the name of a habrauser in whose articles and comments to search for text.

Answer 37

When you press the "Preview" or "Write" buttons, Habr thinks, these buttons turn gray for a couple of seconds - and at this time they look completely non-native for my system and my browser. Those. before pressing the buttons look native (round and colorful), and during pressing they become miserable gray and angular like in Win2k/XP. This is a clear interface bug.

Answer 38

Request confirmation to publish a topic. The Preview, To Draft, and Publish buttons are too close together. I myself missed once and published a draft version of the article, in a couple of seconds I managed to pick up minuses ...

Answer 39

When blocking or deleting a user's account, do not hide all his topics and all comments from everyone. If he was banned for violations, then hide only selectively topics / comments that violate the rules, but not all in a row for all times (as is done now).
The same goes for users who hide their already commented topics in drafts. Let all commenters continue to see all their comments in their personal comment feed.
It will also be more honest with commentators, plus the “My” counter in the profile will be equal to the sum of Blogs, Comments, Jobs and Q&A. Now the difference is accumulating precisely due to the fact that comments on topics hidden in drafts are taken into account in the total “My” amount, but for some reason they are not taken into account and are not displayed in the “Comments” counter.

Answer 40

I'm missing the add to favorites button at the top near the topic name.

Answer 41

I'm missing the add to favorites button at the top near the topic name.

Answer 42

I would really like to see something like WYSIWYG with a set of allowed tags in the response field, and not a pure textarea + help )

Answer 43

I miss sending comments and voting buttons in the pda version.

Answer 44

When you first write a letter to someone, and go into personal correspondence, then in the window of the letter itself it is not written anywhere - to whom it is addressed.
You have to go to the general list of letters.
Bug!
I already wrote to support, but in /dev/null

Answer 45

maybe not for the interface, but additional functionality. for example
"Required articles" section where everyone can add a request to create a new article on a topic of interest. the request can be plused, the more + the more users are interested in the topic of the article and the person who owns it can write it.

Answer 46

Hat too high. Together with advertising, on my not very large monitor, it turns out that the text of the site after loading takes up no more than half of the screen, I immediately have to scroll down. At the same time, the header is almost empty.
Of course, this is such a design, and it is quite interesting, but my suggestion is to think about lifting the main text up.

Answer 47

I would add a link from mu-Habrovskie topics to full-Habrovskie and vice versa

Answer 48

1. Ability to edit your message for some time after sending.
2. Move the "quote" button to the panel for adding a comment.

Answer 49

I would like to see the implemented script for articles save as PDF tied to the login