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halfer / awooga-app

Web application to report coding tutorials of non-optimal quality
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Warn user if their report URL would duplicate another user's report #9

Open halfer opened 9 years ago

halfer commented 9 years ago

Currently there is, deliberately, no ability for users to edit each other's reports, as this arguably needs versioning and rep-based privileges. I'd not argue against those features for the long term, but they are not present initially to get the system into the hands of users with minimal effort.

A consequence of this is that different users can make reports on the same URL. This isn't a terrible outcome - if it happens we can just get users to work together to decide whose report is more complete, and encourage the other to delete. However it would also be nice to warn users that they are about to post a duplicate, to save them the effort of completing the whole form.

If they wish, they can complete the report anyway, which they might do if they believe the existing report is wrong or incomplete.

halfer commented 9 years ago

Since people may not submit a form until they are finished inputting, an AJAX op would be nice here, to save contributors some effort.