handle new users gracefully – activity tab is just empty when you first start using it

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A tool to help users track and improve their content consumption.

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handle new users gracefully – activity tab is just empty when you first start using it #1

Closed ktzhu closed 11 years ago

ktzhu commented 11 years ago

screen shot 2013-05-29 at 12 19 08 am

bhuang92 commented 11 years ago

I think we could just check if all categories have a value of 0 for time (meaning no data has been recorded) and then return a different graphic/text, but yeah, good point.

gnarmis commented 11 years ago

Ok, it's time to pay attention to new user experience a bit. Here's what I saw when I tried it...

Activity tab is blank, and there's 300 or so errors (I think all caused by the d3 activity chart code)
Goals tab was blank on 2-3 clicks of the popup, but eventually it built the collection of user reading goals as I'd set it to. I'll investigate why it's effing up, since this is kinda important.
Prescription tab was blank. Perhaps there needs to be a graceful notice for new users? Perhaps even a notice that stays up until a certain reading amount is reached? That last part is extra, but something needs to be there for completely new users.

bhuang92 commented 11 years ago

prescription tab - I put in a message for when there is no data stored, but perhaps having no data is causing other bugs, so I'll work on that.

gnarmis commented 11 years ago

@bhuang92 I see this happening on a new install with no data (as of 15eb64ed3d):

screen shot 2013-06-11 at 2 52 43 pm

In here, users should not be meeting 33% of all their goals. I think the diversity thing is wrong.

bhuang92 commented 11 years ago

So the 33.3% is percent of goals reached for ALL categories; not just the category selected. Does that clear anything up?

bhuang92 commented 11 years ago

Or is this for like the new user? I guess I should handle that differently

gnarmis commented 11 years ago

@bhuang92 @ktzhu I've done a bunch of refactoring in 15eb64ed3d.

There is a new helper ('lib/new-user-helper') which has a function isNewUser(), which checks total reading time and compares against a new threshold value called secondsBeforeActive for minimum time required to not be a new user (defined in 'app/config.coffee' as 1 second), and returns a boolean response.
a new view, 'views/popup/welcome-view', which is only launched if the user is a new user. Inside the Activity tab. Here it is:

screen shot 2013-06-11 at 2 52 50 pm

gnarmis commented 11 years ago

@bhuang92 Yeah, this screenshot was taken as a new user, and for a new user it should be 0%, I believe

bhuang92 commented 11 years ago

Gotcha. Okay, yeah right now it just checks to see if nothing is above the "bias proportion of time," and if that's the case, then it'll return that it's diverse. I guess it should be above bias proportion of time and time is not 0. If time is 0, then display diversity not met yet also.

bhuang92 commented 11 years ago

Hey, I fixed the diversity part. It now says there's not enough data when the user has totalTime = 0 for a specific category. The diversity part of overall health is then not satisfied either. (i still dont know how to insert images.. but here http://i.imgur.com/gcrwdiS.png)

gnarmis commented 11 years ago

pretty much fixed across the board by de6ce0c838