Replace "Comments" Calypso view with standard WordPress "Comments" view

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Replace "Comments" Calypso view with standard WordPress "Comments" view #95622

Open richtabor opened 1 month ago

richtabor commented 1 month ago

As part of the Untangling Calypso epic, let's remove the custom implementation of the wordpress.com/comments view, in lieu of the standard WordPress wp-admin/comments.php view—for new users.

This will reduce confusion navigating between Calypso and proper WordPress admin.

Requirements

Selecting "Comments" from the WordPress or Calypso menu opens the standard WordPress pages view at wp-admin/comments.php

tanjoymor commented 3 weeks ago

Recommendation: Switch to WP Admin for All users / All platforms

Suggestion: Add the ability to Block Users

No other considerations

Copons commented 2 weeks ago

I don't see any blockers for this. Let's use wp-admin for new users, as recommended!

Considerations

Block Users
- On paper, it's an essential feature. In practice, it's used ~15 times a day (which is a good thing!!).
- I don't consider this a blocker. However, in the context of this issue, we should do a quick investigation on how we handle comments marked as spam. Maybe we don't explicitly need to block users, but we can simply rely on our regular anti-spam capabilities.

Aurorum commented 1 week ago

Calypso also offers the ability to collapse replied comments - not sure how essential that is, but it’s something which I have found useful.

Copons commented 1 week ago

@Aurorum Well noted!

The Calypso comments section has loads of nice UX touches — I shouldn't say so: I was one of the people who originally developed it in... IIRC... the late 1950s. 😅 However, now that we are moving back to wp-admin, we are more concerned about any missing functionality, and even if sometimes painful, UX niceties are not blockers.