Topic on Talk:Talk pages project/Usability/Prototype

T282269: Make it easier to identify and understand the relationships between the threads and comments

1. Did you use mobile device or a laptop…? I used a mobile device, an iPhone 7+ with the Safari browser.
2. What did you find unexpected…? It was surprising to see the topic counts of participating users, and the number of comments.
3. Which steps…did you find difficult? Finding the topic with the most users and the most comments was difficult, because I was looking to the left side of the page for a summary total, I did not expect that every topic would have its own individual tally.
4. What do you like…? I like to see the number of users who are participating in a topic, because it is hard to tell, just by looking. I greatly enjoyed the ease of adding a reply by using the "Reply" option.
5. What do you wish was different…? I wish it was easier to tell the row where one comment ends and the next comment begins. Differently shaded alternating backgrounds would do this.
6. Can you imagine this design not working on some pages? Would this new design work on the Main Page "corrections" section? Because it's broken up unusually, into unique subsections.

It looks like you usually use the "desktop" site for your normal editing. Do you remember whether the PatchDemo test wiki put you in the desktop site ("Vector") or the mobile site? (The usual "Mobile view"/"Desktop view" links are in the footer, at the very bottom of every page.)

The PatchDemo test wiki put me in the desktop site, not the mobile site.* I do have my mobile phone set to Use desktop site at all times, for all websites (often this does not work, as some sites automatically change their layouts to conform to the size of the viewing screen). My practice is to avoid mobile versions of websites, in all circumstances, even though this does cause me occasional difficulties.

*But in the sample picture, the desktop site seemed to have a summary column on the lefthand side of the page, where there was a list of the comments with the most responses and so forth, or maybe it listed the most recent comments, or both. This column, if there is such a column, did not appear on my phone, although I was at the desktop site.

The screenshots mostly show the new Vector 2022 with its new (proposed, not guaranteed) Table of Contents. If you'd like to take another look, then try these links:

• Vector 2010: http://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/6c2b1c9b3e/wiki/Talk:New_York?useskin=vector
• Vector 2022: http://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/6c2b1c9b3e/wiki/Talk:New_York?useskin=vector-2022
• Vector 2022 without the new Table of Contents: http://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/6c2b1c9b3e/wiki/Talk:New_York?useskin=vector-2022&tableofcontents=0
• Minerva (looks like the mobile site, although it may not be exactly the same thing that you would see if you clicked the "Mobile view" link): http://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/6c2b1c9b3e/wiki/Talk:New_York?useskin=minerva

My preference is for Vector 2022 although in my desktop browser (Firefox 103.0.1 64-bit) the items in the table of contents are not a numbered list, and I find the numbered list to be helpful.