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Re: Changes [user777] by Sylvia STAFF
Dec 09, 2005 (5:32 am)
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Replying to: user777 (Dec 09, 2005 3:55 am)

Yes! More good things to come.
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Re: Changes [Sylvia] by imidazol97
Dec 09, 2005 (8:47 am)
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Replying to: Sylvia (Dec 09, 2005 5:32 am)

It appears they have the ergonomics backwards.
 
Read New Posts should have been the leftmost item after a message page, Remove Track, should have been the middle, and my tracked items should have been rightmost.
 
Was read subscriptions in the middle of the old layout. I keep clicking Remove Track out of habit thinking that's Read Subscriptions.
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Re: Changes [imidazol97] by qbrozen
Dec 09, 2005 (9:11 am)
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Dec 09, 2005 8:47 am)

same here. I've done it at least a dozen times already.
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Re: Changes [qbrozen] by user777
Dec 09, 2005 (9:18 am)
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Replying to: qbrozen (Dec 09, 2005 9:11 am)

interesting because other people (like myself) never use what was "Read Subscriptions", but instead used "Message Center".
 
i agree on the human factors issue: if you change the location of an affordance, you're likely to cause problems when people initially can't find the new location, or because they are familiar with the old location, activate a function that may have taken it's place.
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Re: Changes [user777] by jaxs1
Dec 09, 2005 (9:36 am)
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Replying to: user777 (Dec 09, 2005 9:18 am)

Yes, "My Tracked 'Items'" is a confusing change and the wording seems smarmy.
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Re: Changes [jaxs1] by user777
Dec 09, 2005 (9:50 am)
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Replying to: jaxs1 (Dec 09, 2005 9:36 am)

Imagine tracking developments on your favorite vehicle or vehicles, or reports by a particular contributor or contributors, or postings by a particular member or members, etc. Imagine that this content which you are interested in may exist at Edmunds, in a Featured Article, a Road Test, regular Columns, or Forums, etc.
 
You want to go searching for the stuff each and every time, or would you rather prefer to tell the site: "this is the stuff I want to read, remember my preferences, and serve it up to me conveniently please".
 
I'm thinking they are setting us up for some real neat functionality to come.
 
While they aren't spelling out their future plans in gorey detail, they do seem to be telegraphing these goodies...
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Re: Changes [jaxs1] by steve_ HOST
Dec 09, 2005 (10:06 am)
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Replying to: jaxs1 (Dec 09, 2005 9:36 am)

I like it - tracks fit into an auto theme nicely. Makes for fun word play.
 
Steve, Host
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Re: Changes [steve_] by user777
Dec 09, 2005 (10:10 am)
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 09, 2005 10:06 am)

Yeah, what steve said.
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Re: Changes [steve_] by jaxs1
Dec 09, 2005 (10:15 am)
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 09, 2005 10:06 am)

How about calling them something descriptive like "discussions" or "message boards" rather than "items?"
What is an item? That is ultra vague.
 
Subscribing was more clear than tracking, but I suppose they could also call it "saving" or "following."
Follow this discussion.
Save this message board to the Message Center etc..
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Re: Changes [jaxs1] by KarenS HOST
Dec 09, 2005 (10:19 am)
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Replying to: jaxs1 (Dec 09, 2005 10:15 am)

Without getting too "gory" , the term "items" encompasses more than just discussions.

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