Implemented Go directly to a member's Profile from [Interact] popup

[Digital Doctor]

I wanted to check out a member's profile posts .... but I couldn't find a direct way to get to their profile posts.

 

[Paul B]

Click on the "24 minutes ago".

 

[Allan]

Click on the "24 minutes ago".

It's not very intuitive !

 

[Paul B]

It's the same for every message and has been since XenForo 1.0.

 

[Digital Doctor]

What about a link in all this white space ...

 

[Allan]

It's the same for every message and has been since XenForo 1.0.

In popup ?

 

[Digital Doctor]

Can this be returned to suggestions.
To me it's not .

It's very hard to find the link.

And there is lots of space to make a link.

 

[Allan]

No one will think to click on the link, again, not explicit enough.

 

[Digital Doctor]

The fact that @me and @Allan didn't know should indicate a need for a more formal link to the member's profile posts.

 

[Digital Doctor]

When I click on the 16 minutes link ... it seems to do nothing really.

On the forum home ... it takes you to the first message.



I guess that's analogous.

It's just not intuitive enough.
There is lots of space here ... lots of room for a more formal link.
No need to save space with unintuitiveness.

 

[FredC]

The fact that @me and @Allan didn't know should indicate a need for a more formal link to the member's profile posts.

I admit i was fumbling around looking for a direct link to the profile page yesterday. I wound up going the way of clicking on the username / opening the membercard / then clicking again on the username in the overlay, which finally brought me to the profile i was trying to get to in the first place..

 

[Jeremy]

It adds a hash to the URL that is a direct link to the post. Posts do not contain their own page or own links, so no reload is necessary.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Can this be moved back to suggestions @Brogan ?
My suggestion is distinct to what is currently offered.
Thank you in advance.

 

[Shelley]

I admit i was fumbling around looking for a direct link to the profile page yesterday. I wound up going the way of clicking on the username / opening the membercard / then clicking again on the username in the overlay, which finally brought me to the profile i was trying to get to in the first place..

That's the route I took.

Perhaps having the username link go to profile wouldn't be a bad thing instead of it opening the membercard, since the avatar within the overlay opens the member card already.

 

[Mike]

I would generally consider the link now to be sufficient. It's a pretty consistent approach across XenForo (at least in message-like content) and it's a common pattern in other web apps (Facebook).

 

[Digital Doctor]

Seems like an easy fix.
Oh well.

 

[FredC]

I swear i clicked on everything but the time stamp... ive only been using XF from the beginning.. Some of my forum members have a hard time understanding "Upload a File" also includes image files.. lol getting them to click a date (with muted text no less) is going to prove futile.

 

[Allan]

I would generally consider the link now to be sufficient. It's a pretty consistent approach across XenForo (at least in message-like content) and it's a common pattern in other web apps (Facebook).

This is not a solution, innovate!

 

[Paul B]

That's quite enough.