Bug #3574
closed
Address awkward possessive cases on My Commons page
Added by Matt Gold over 9 years ago.
Updated about 9 years ago.
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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We could change the text from "User's profile was updated" to "User updated their profile page".
- Target version set to 1.8
How about borrowing from LinkedIn for this?
'User has an updated profile.'
It's dry, but factual and gender neutral!
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?
- Assignee changed from Chris Stein to Boone Gorges
Thanks. Assigning to Boone for implementation
- Assignee changed from Boone Gorges to Raymond Hoh
Assigning to Ray, as I think this'll fall out of #3844.
- 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.
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