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iOS app for tracking and contacting your legislators, and learning about new bills and laws.
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What to show on an empty "Followed" page? #166

Closed nickom closed 11 years ago

nickom commented 11 years ago

When someone taps over to the "Followed" portion of "Latest Activity" and they aren't following anything it is completely blank. Should we just copy the page displayed on the blank "Following" section to this page?

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jcarbaugh commented 11 years ago

My initial reaction would be to leave it blank. It's possible for a person to have followed a legislator, but not have any activity to show them. Adding instructions to that screen might make a user think that she has to do something else in order to get this list to work, when she's actually done everything she needed to.

I'd be more pro-this if the instruction screen was shown only when there is an empty activity list AND the person has not followed anything.

dcloud commented 11 years ago

I would do it only when the person is not following anything. I think you're right that it should be blank list if they are following things but we don't have activity to show.

konklone commented 11 years ago

You can make a specific message in either case, right? When the user hasn't followed anyone, "Follow someone to add their activity here!", and if not, "No activity for anyone you're following yet! Give it time." It might be worth forcing something if only because a blank screen is the universal symbol of a frozen or buggy app.

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Daniel Cloud notifications@github.comwrote:

I would do it only when the person is not following anything. I think you're right that it should be blank list if they are following things but we don't have activity to show.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/sunlightlabs/congress-ios/issues/166#issuecomment-18068690 .

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dcloud commented 11 years ago

Well, it will show the last activity for the things you're following, so the second thing scenario never happens.

dcloud commented 11 years ago

how to view landed in 1945dda

jcarbaugh commented 11 years ago

Well, it won't show anything if you've only followed legislators.

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Daniel Cloud notifications@github.comwrote:

Well, it will show the last activity for the things you're following, so the second thing scenario never happens.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/sunlightlabs/congress-ios/issues/166#issuecomment-18072907 .

dcloud commented 11 years ago

Hmmm... as of now it will show the "how to" if you are following legislators but not bills. Cause there is no latest activity on legislators for now.