Having a checkbox tells users that I can uncheck it. If I am not the OP or admin, I shouldn’t see the checkbox. Only OP or admin should see checkbox because that action is only for them.
For everyone else, they should only see the word “SOLUTION”.
We can add additional highlights by making the background of the post ‘Green’ or have additional highlights around it. But not using the checkbox.
UX wise, having a checkbox for the readers is not the proper way.
To the discourse-solved developers, i’m not a ruby dev, but how can i modify this in code in case I want to remove the checkbox in my site for readers not OP/Admin? What part of the code handles this?
I was trying to do that and realize that this isn’t possible because you can’t add any conditions (if/else) in the CSS. The only way to make it work is editing it directly thru the plugin code.
Maybe @awesomerobot can do some mockups here, I am fine to make solved clearer. I agree that marking something as a solution is not super clear to the OP.
It’s noisy, but just for OP, so I don’t think it’s so bad. It’s worth a little noise if increases feature use.
I shortened the copy from “this solved my question” to “mark as solution,” the longer version is clearer, but it’s also… long. Using “mark” also gives us “unmark” as the reverse.
Also Font Awesome’s times-square () icon is premium-only, and the times-circle is free, so that’s why I’m using circles here.
Yeah it’s difficult to keep the same amount of clarity on mobile, the post controls are already crammed. One option could be to move the controls for solved outside of the existing topic nav
How about emphasizing the mark as solution for the current reply only and shift the emphasis as the reader scrolls? Appreciate it’s much more involved but would reduce noise considerably.
I think it is worth revisiting the idea of changing iconography with this big change. The circles look somewhat less prominent in the list. I know that there is an aspect of “cheese move” resistance movement here. But I would like to keep square if possible with the change even if we have to re-draw 1-2 SVGs.
We attempted the merge on Friday but I rolled it back cause we had an oversight and applied the styling changes to non OP this was meant to be a change that was extremely tightly scoped to OP only (not staff for example).
Another concern I have for OP is the “continuous” invitation to “unmark as solution” once you marked something as a solution I find that is somewhat cluttery, is there anything we can do here? To “unheart” you simply click the heart again, why don’t we follow the same pattern?