Bug #3574
closedAddress awkward possessive cases on My Commons page
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Description
Cases where a user updates a profile results in an awkward My Commons page update. Not sure how to fix this; assigning to Chris and Samantha for ideas.
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Updated by Raymond Hoh about 10 years ago
We could change the text from "User's profile was updated" to "User updated their profile page".
Updated by Boone Gorges about 10 years ago
- Target version set to 1.8
See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4636#comment:11 for background on the choice of phrasing.
I don't mind singular "their" but I have a feeling it will annoy our users.
Updated by Samantha Raddatz about 10 years ago
How about borrowing from LinkedIn for this?
'User has an updated profile.'
It's dry, but factual and gender neutral!
Updated by Matt Gold about 10 years ago
Boone Gorges wrote:
See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4636#comment:11 for background on the choice of phrasing.
I don't mind singular "their" but I have a feeling it will annoy our users.
:) Agreed.
I like Samantha's edit but the problem is that it doesn't imply an action. So I would go with "[User First Name Last Name] 's profile was updated" . The key difference from what we have now is that I think we should repeat the user's name in the actual update text rather than throwing an apostrophe s on the line below the user's name.
So, this would look like
Joe Smith
Joe Smith's profile was updated
Does that make sense?
Updated by Matt Gold about 10 years ago
- Assignee changed from Chris Stein to Boone Gorges
Thanks. Assigning to Boone for implementation
Updated by Boone Gorges over 9 years ago
- Assignee changed from Boone Gorges to Raymond Hoh
Assigning to Ray, as I think this'll fall out of #3844.
Updated by Boone Gorges over 9 years ago
- Status changed from Assigned to Duplicate
- Target version deleted (
1.8)
It looks like the changes being worked on in #3844 will fix this completely, so I'm closing this ticket as a duplicate.