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Highlight Obsolete / Historic status of documents. #7905

Open wkumari opened 1 week ago

wkumari commented 1 week ago

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It is very easy to miss the fact that a document has been made Historic / Obsoleted - example: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5933/

There is only a single small line saying "Status Changed by: ", but almost no-body notices this (I polled a bunch of people, and not one of them noticed it... :-) )

Can we please have a big scary banner (or similar) to make it more obvious?

Mockup for illustration (choose whatever wording / banner style / alert / whatever you think will make it clear).

(I checked before opening this issue -- I don't think there is already one open, closest seemed to be #1674 )

Screenshot 2024-09-05 at 4 48 10 PM

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rjsparks commented 1 week ago

Also consider the /html/ view?

wkumari commented 1 week ago

Oh, yes, good point!

Basically, anything that we can do to make it less likely that someone unknowingly implements something historic seems like a grand plan...