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Confusing warning message for unsupported functionality in https://mooc.phzh.ch/ ZIM #83

Closed Popolechien closed 4 years ago

Popolechien commented 4 years ago

At the bottom of Topic 1 - Unit 1 - Step 3 there is a small section for discussion, followed by an area where users can post whatever comes through their mind and discuss. Capture d’écran 2020-07-20 à 11 45 01

Because of the nature of a zim file the posts cannot be recorded and posted, and the section is replaced with a generic This discussion is not supported, sorry! Capture d’écran 2020-07-20 à 11 43 09

However this is misleading / confusing because as far as the user is concerned a discussion is supported (there are instructions to sit in a group, etc.). Not having a point of comparison, they do not know what they are looking at (or should be). A better alternative text would be This functionality is not supported on offline platforms :-(

rgaudin commented 4 years ago

It seems that reading is supported and contributing to the discussion is not. Am I right? In that case, we could either remove the message completely or specify clearly that it's read-only.

satyamtg commented 4 years ago

It seems that reading is supported and contributing to the discussion is not. Am I right? In that case, we could either remove the message completely or specify clearly that it's read-only.

Yes, you're right. However, the screenshot in the first comment is of the online version and the warning message is as the discussion wasn't scraped as --add-forum wasn't passed while running. Maybe, we shall change the message to something like - "Discussions are not supported in this ZIM", or just remove that, and if there are discussions scraped but if those could not be supported, we might have a warning message.

rgaudin commented 4 years ago

Agrees