[railsplugins] searchablilty

[Tim Lowrimore]

First, let me just say that I really love the concept of RailsPlugins.

Now to the issue... Let's say I've entered, "Authlogic Rails 3 'Could
not find generator session'" into google as my search term, and the
first result returned is a link to RailsPlugins.org. Great. Now,
when I follow the link I find a nice looking list of commentary
regarding the very topic for which I've searched. Unfortunately, the
list is long, and I have to expand every list item until I find the
desired comment. Ideally, I would be allowed to use the browser's
native search function to locate the comment, but because the comments
are hidden, I cannot.

Since I'm not a fan of bitching about something being broken without
throwing out some suggested solutions, here are a few:

- Provide the ability to view the page with all comments fully
expanded, thus allowing for the use of native browser search support.
- Provide in-app search functionality.

In the event that I've foolishly overlooked the functionality I've
outlined above, please laugh and poke fun at me--I love that shit.

Cheers,
Tim

[Paul Campbell]

Hi Tim,

Thanks for mailing the list.

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Tim Lowrimore <tlowr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> First, let me just say that I really love the concept of RailsPlugins.
>
> Now to the issue...  Let's say I've entered, "Authlogic Rails 3 'Could
> not find generator session'" into google as my search term, and the
> first result returned is a link to RailsPlugins.org.  Great.  Now,
> when I follow the link I find a nice looking list of commentary
> regarding the very topic for which I've searched.  Unfortunately, the
> list is long, and I have to expand every list item until I find the
> desired comment.  Ideally, I would be allowed to use the browser's
> native search function to locate the comment, but because the comments
> are hidden, I cannot.
>
> Since I'm not a fan of bitching about something being broken without
> throwing out some suggested solutions, here are a few:
>
> - Provide the ability to view the page with all comments fully
> expanded, thus allowing for the use of native browser search support.

Great idea.

Shouldn't be too tough to implement either.

—Paul

> - Provide in-app search functionality.
>
> In the event that I've foolishly overlooked the functionality I've
> outlined above, please laugh and poke fun at me--I love that shit.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>

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[Mikel Lindsaar]

Hi Tim,

I'll make a "show all comments" button that will handle this :)

Mikel

[Mikel Lindsaar]

On 8, May 2010, at 8 May 1:46, Tim Lowrimore wrote:

> First, let me just say that I really love the concept of RailsPlugins.

Ta :)

> Now to the issue... Let's say I've entered, "Authlogic Rails 3 'Could
> not find generator session'" into google as my search term, and the
> first result returned is a link to RailsPlugins.org. Great. Now,
> when I follow the link I find a nice looking list of commentary
> regarding the very topic for which I've searched. Unfortunately, the
> list is long, and I have to expand every list item until I find the
> desired comment. Ideally, I would be allowed to use the browser's
> native search function to locate the comment, but because the comments
> are hidden, I cannot.

Great suggestion, the feature was written, code done, pushed and deployed.

http://www.railsplugins.org/plugins/56-authlogic

Please let me know if this solves the problem for you.

Mikel

http://rubyx.com/
http://lindsaar.net/

[Chris Lerum]

Don't see the good in having all the comments hidden initially.
There's never an occasion when I'd want to see _that_ someone
commented, but not _what_ the comment was.
There's that, and this - if i try to copy a bit of text from a
comment, guess what, it slides up, sometimes preventing the copy to
work.

On May 8, 3:26 am, Mikel Lindsaar <raasd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8, May 2010, at 8 May 1:46, Tim Lowrimore wrote:
>
> > First, let me just say that I really love the concept of RailsPlugins.
>
> Ta :)
>
> > Now to the issue...  Let's say I've entered, "Authlogic Rails 3 'Could
> > not find generator session'" into google as my search term, and the
> > first result returned is a link to RailsPlugins.org.  Great.  Now,
> > when I follow the link I find a nice looking list of commentary
> > regarding the very topic for which I've searched.  Unfortunately, the
> > list is long, and I have to expand every list item until I find the

> > desiredcomment.  Ideally, I would be allowed to use the browser's
> > native search function to locate thecomment, but because the comments

[Tim Lowrimore]

I too have noticed this behavior when trying to copy text from a comment.  I've heard a number of people complain about this issue around our office.

That said, I still use the hell out of RailsPlugins as it provides a useful service and an outstanding community.  I'm sure that with all of this constructive input the UX will improve significantly with time.

Cheers,

Tim

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[Mikel Lindsaar]

Hey good points, thanks for the alert.

Let me have a look at the UX here and I'll clean it up.

Mikel

http://rubgx.com/