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The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
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The meaning of "Reply to this entry" is not clear #2166

Closed Adamant36 closed 4 years ago

Adamant36 commented 5 years ago

Its not really clear what "reply to this entry" does. It sounds like its replying to diary entry, but its sending the person a private message. So it would be clearer if it if said something like "Write user message" or something similar that explicitly says your sending them a message. Instead of just leaving one on the diary entry like "comment on this entry" does.

Also, the usage of "reply" is kind of ambiguous in this situation because the communication hasn't actually been initiated yet. So your not really "replying" to anything in the traditional sense.

mmd-osm commented 5 years ago

Ok, so you're talking about https://www.openstreetmap.org/diary

How about "Contact the author"?

Adamant36 commented 5 years ago

Yep. "Contact the author" would totally work.

ConSou commented 5 years ago

Hello, I can make this adjustment if no one has started on it already.

gravitystorm commented 5 years ago

I would prefer "Send a message to the author" or even "Send a message to %{display_name}", since that makes it even clearer what the link does. We use the phrasing "send a message" and similar elsewhere on the site when referring to messages, so it would be good to promote consistency. As far as I can see when we say "contact" it's in documentation not specifically referring to the messaging system.

There's also two places this should be changed. The first is on the diary pages (app/views/diary_entries/_diary_entry.html.erb) and the second is on the diary comment notification emails.