I joined the Etsy forum prototype - they'll be rolling out upgrades to the way we view them apparently and right now its in beta testing. I was curious...
So - it's far from perfect. The text is possibly a little bigger than it has to be - although I like it as I am blind as a bat.
You do see the last person who posted in the thread - in the corner of the avatars you see a smaller square avatar of the last poster in the thread.
You also see which threads you have READ as the number of posts in the thread is highlighted with a blue circle.
You will also see a little text below each post that says 'reply to Petra' (for example) and you will see the posts that are actually made in response below that post as a sort of subpost that's clear.
I like where they are going with it. The design isn't the smoothest or sleekest but its headed in the right direction. So much so i will be staying in the prototype.
I hope they'll be doing similar to teams too (but a bit different as teams need sections more).
I include screenshots from my phone - I collated them and also scrubbed out any identifiers and text. Just so you can see how it looks.
If you're interested in joining the prototype too this is the team:
Etsy forums prototype team
I like the addition of being able to reply to someone's post. lots of interesting developments on Etsy lately.
ReplyDeletei agree, so much testing and progress is good.
Deletethe forums may need work but its looking good for the future