hide sidebar displaying other users during all reading periods.

[xehu]

In the reading period, where the user should be the ONLY person in the room, and left alone to read, I noticed that, at one point, another user actually appeared:

Settings used:

1. Multi team
2. Rounds = 4
3. Reading, pinned, all surveys = on

[markwhiting]

I'm not disputing this bug, but just wondering, why is reading period in a chatroom instead of on a page with a link, or something else?

Is that what we want? Is there a way this could work better fundamentally?

[xehu]

@markwhiting you're right--- it doesn't have to be in a chatroom. The idea was to make the experience feel consistent with the rest of the platform.

I think alternative ways of doing this include just creating a blank page where the reading materials are embedded, with some timer counting down how much time they have left. The "minimum viable product" is just having some ability to display:

1. instructions
2. time limit (timer countdown)
3. a PDF (or a link)

[markwhiting]

Whats the ideal, from an experimental standpoint?

[xehu]

I don't think there's a huge experimental tradeoff either way, but ideally, the reading period is just a quiet time to read on one's own. It just doesn't make sense to me for it to appear like there's lots of other users "there," since you can't interact with them until the chatroom anyway.

@deliveryweb can you just hide the sidebar during all reading periods?

[xehu]

^changed title of the issue to make the action item more clear.

[dtatarenkov]

fixed