CUNY Academic Commons

I don't love the passive voice here but I do like the emphasis on group/site names. Wonder what we could accomplish through styling to add emphasis

My suggestion is to break it out into two parts:

[group avatar] GROUP NAME
Boone joined the group Group Name

That sounds good to me

Yeah, without the passive voice is better. Thanks, Boone!

Thanks, Ray. The text in your mockup looks good (though we should include first + last names). I do not think we are getting rid of the double avatars. It's really the text that we are trying to work on here (so far as I understand things)

Thanks for having a first look, Ray.

As Matt said, the text on the second item in your mockup looks good: large text matches the large avatar, and small text contains the full activity action string. And let's keep the double avatars.

Thanks for the clarification, Boone.

I'd say we should be consistent and do this for all activity types.

Are you saying if it's a person it would be:

Boone Gorges (large text)
Boone Gorges wrote a new activity update

Or is this only for groups?

I'd say all activity types. Samantha, what do you think?

Yes, for consistency let's apply this to all activity types.

See also #3574 - I think that fixing this ticket will fix that one too.

Okay, I've added this in commit 0ead051 and is ready for testing on cdev.

One thing I've noticed since implementing this is I think we should add the object pertaining to the main object permalink. Either a textual prefix or an icon would do.

eg.

Group: CUNY Academic Commons Team
Site: Futures Initiative
User: Matt Gold

Let me know what you think.

I like the idea of doing something with an icon. Do we have something we could use for this? Do we like the icons we use in the widget headers on the front page (IMO they are not great).

I like the idea of doing something with an icon

How about the dashicons font?

Groups: https://developer.wordpress.org/resource/dashicons/#groups
User: https://developer.wordpress.org/resource/dashicons/#admin-users

For "Site", not sure what we could use:
https://developer.wordpress.org/resource/dashicons/#id-alt
https://developer.wordpress.org/resource/dashicons/#format-aside
https://developer.wordpress.org/resource/dashicons/#rss

I like 'aside' for blog posts. If the different icons aren't differentiating enough, we might think about different colors for group/user/site icons as well.

I agree that 'aside' is a good icon for blogs. When this is implemented, could we change the homepage icons to match so there's consistency across the site?

Yeah. Love it.

The icon is somewhat lost down in the lower-right, but it'd be nice to get Samantha's feedback here.

I think the icons on the bottom-right are a nice touch. They aren't vital enough to users that they need to be more prominent, but are helpful if noticed.

Let's leave them there for now and I'll include it in my list for the next user testing to see if there are any strong feelings about it. Thanks, Ray!

I think the label is better than the logo -- more noticeable and clear. I like them for the 'everything' tab because it clarifies what is a group vs what is a group's site, but it's a bit repetitive on the other tabs. I'm struggling to think of a better solution for this, so I'm looping Chris in.

In the meantime, the additional labeling made me notice that the Friends tab in MyCommons contains lots of different types of content, not just people-related things like friendships created (see attached screenshot). Can you explain what content is pulled into that stream?

The "My Friends" stream includes any activity created by your friends, whether that be in a group or site setting.

I agree that the new activity labels kind of confuses this a bit.

Is there anything more that needs to done on this ticket or can we ship as is with the 1.8 release, which needs to freeze development by 5/12 or so.

Sorry I dropped out on this for a bit! I discussed with Chris and he agrees that the logos are helpful in some instances, but confusing in others. I recommend that we remove the icons and labels for now but ship the other great changes Ray made here with the 1.8 release.