Action Posts

[Azareal]

I dunno if I've made a discussion for this already, probably not, but this is quite a fun one.
Basically, when someone performs an action in a topic, a message will be produced by the system reflected it.

The best way to explain it is to show you with an example from Github who, in my opinion, do it best:

See the little actions between my comments?


An example in Gosora.

And in Discourse, although I think they've simplified it a bit too much there in recent versions.

 

[Jordan]

In my opinion, I find the one in Github to be very annoying. Especially when a lot of actions are done to a single post. It clutters up the page. It's a nice thing for something like Github for developers and support. Otherwise, for something such as a discussion thread, it takes away from the conversation.

Perhaps if there was a way to "click" on something inside the post that will then show the actions done to that post below.

 

[Azareal]

In my opinion, I find the one in Github to be very annoying. Especially when a lot of actions are done to a single post. It clutters up the page. It's a nice thing for something like Github for developers and support. Otherwise, for something such as a discussion thread, it takes away from the conversation.

Perhaps if there was a way to "click" on something inside the post that will then show the actions done to that post below.

On a forum, I don't think it would really be that frequent, mainly just when moving a topic, locking, unlocking, maybe changing the title of the topic? (might be a thing for edit history instead, e.g. clicking in on a post), etc.

On Github, there's more noise as there are all sorts of labels which I can apply to the thing after creating it like priority, which milestone, whose responsible for an issue, tags, etc.

 

[simonweb]

That's pretty neat! IPB does something similar but they limit it to their activity feed instead of cluttering the topic pages.