inventaire / inventaire-client

webapp coupled to the inventaire server :books:
https://inventaire.io
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display "post a message" closer to the other messages #113

Open jum-s opened 7 years ago

jum-s commented 7 years ago

within the transaction page, it is counter intuitive to have a message field to reply to someone far from the written messages. Would be more natural to have the field box right after the messages, then the "next action" possibility selection_010

maxlath commented 7 years ago

the motivation here was to have the actions and their legend made very visible: as it's a discussion, you expect to find a "post a message" box or something of this kind, but all the actions are new to most users. It tries to borrow heavily from Github issues/PR flows, the closest thing I could think of that merges comments and actions: pr

jum-s commented 7 years ago

size is not the same, on gh the field box is twice as big as the action in between. it encourages more to answer than click "delete branch" on a social network, the focus should be to engage a dialogue with someone, the actions are the least of your concern, i wanted to reply you first, then lend the book borrowing heavily from github could be a "reply" button and next to it a "reply and [action]" button

maxlath commented 7 years ago

yes, having the action buttons near the "Send" button could do, but the actions should really be visible, as it's what keeps inventories in sync with transactions*, and need space to be explain properly as it's very specific to this social network

(*): actions allow