Discourse Suggested Edits

Hi, we are piloting Suggested Edits on long, community-maintained guides and found several UX issues.

  1. When a suggester opens a pending suggestion with Edit, the composer returns to the correct location, but there is no visual indication of what they changed. A suggester-facing diff or review step would make it much easier to understand and revise a pending suggestion.

  2. In one test, changing a single word produced many additional diff markers that appeared to be whitespace or line-ending changes in the raw Markdown. Could insignificant whitespace be normalized before the diff is generated?

  3. Add reason disappears when the composer is expanded to fullscreen. It would be helpful for the reason field to remain available in both views. A final review screen that encourages the user to add a reason before submitting would also improve the workflow.

  4. The icon-only Suggest Edit action is easy to miss. Could the text label be displayed with the icon by default?

  5. Is a member-facing page showing submitted suggestions and their pending, accepted, rejected, withdrawn, or stale status planned?

Happy to provide screenshots or help test improvements.

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