Seen before & retired image flags

[camallen]

I've got an image that i've seen and is retired but it only shows 1 flag (already seen) at a time.

[mschwamb]

Better messaging would be great. Some volunteers on my projects get confused as well (see previous comments in the thread). I really liked the way the original Planet Hunters did it with a pop message telling you 'thanks you've finished all the available data on the project'. Would that be an option? Leave the current orange label on the top left, but add in a pop up box?

[vrooje]

I agree something like this would be useful on the user level, as it happens to a lot of users well before the global green "this project is out of data" message comes up. It might be as "simple" as more forcefully putting the banner mouseover text in front of the user so they can actively click something like "keep classifying anyway" to keep going, or just come back later. Right now the explanation is pretty well hidden.

[simensta]

Instead of the diagonal banner, we could add a banner just above the image that provides the "Finished" or "Already Seen" labels with the explanation text (without clicking through).

If a volunteer has seen all un-retired images, it would be great to message that information as well.

[srallen]

@beckyrother might have some ideas about this.

[beckyrother]

Thanks for pointing this out; adding to my list of things to work on as we update the classifier. Reading back up, I didn't realize the banners were clickable either! Definitely need more clear language for all of these scenarios.

One thought would be a popup that explains that they've seen all the subjects and gives them the option to classify in that project anyway, or shows them three project cards from the same category (space, physics, nature, etc).

I'm hesitant to request any large changes now, though, since the classification redesign is coming up.

[mschwamb]

@beckyrother yes having suggestions of other projects would be great if a project is out of data. see #3896

[vrooje]

Sometimes refreshing seemed to help people stop seeing the banner, at least in PRN. I'd prefer users only be directed to other projects if the code verifies that user really has seen every subject. Directing them to Talk ("join the conversation and help others who are newer to the project" etc) is another option.

If the project really is completely out of data, that's different.

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[mschwamb]

@srallen with the interface design will this be addressed, if not could changing the messaging/flags be part of it?

[beckyrother]

@mschwamb yes, we have plans to address these flags in the update.

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[mschwamb]

wasn't address in any of the recent interface changes, so this is still an issue that should not be marked as stale.

[eatyourgreens]

Already seen and retired subjects are filtered out of the upcoming queue before it's shown to a volunteer: https://github.com/zooniverse/Panoptes-Front-End/blob/a29fe0f46b081f26374f23ec15473f547e038062/app/pages/project/classify.jsx#L250-L257

[mschwamb]

That does not happen when the person has finished all the live data on the site but those subjects are not retired. Then these flag show and people are confused what they mean. I have had more than one volunteer keep classifying thinking they were contributing when they were adding duplicate classifications. The 'good job you completed the data' equivalent message only shows what the entire site is out of data. So if one workflow has data, then these flags do show and are the only indication of the state of the project for the specific user account.

Also in my experience frequently close to reaching the end of the live data for an individual classifier you start seeing the 'already seen' flag pop up.

[srallen]

Yes, the UX part of this still needs addressing when the flags do show and will be with the redesign/rewrite, but keeping open an old generic version of this issue is not helpful for us. When we schedule the next round of UX updates, a specific issue for the UX side of this will be documented.

The latter issue you described is likely an API side issue, not UX.

[srallen]

Project suggestion modal is described in #4556