Full quote button in editor missing

[mcwumbly (Dave McClure)]

@ThunderThighs

• Did you create some logs to track which buttons are used most? I have to imagine that there were other less used buttons.
• Did you usability test people try to quote a post w/o the button?

Not exactly, no. We don’t track user behaviors at this level of granularity, nor do we do explicit user testing for every UI change.

For bigger changes, we do try to roll things out in a way that is not disruptive and allows us to gather more feedback from real usage.

We didn’t anticipate this change being one that deserved that kind of treatment. The feedback here suggests we may have gotten that wrong – and we’re listening.

I don’t have a specific answer for what we’ll do here yet in response to this feedback about this specific change – I need to sync with a few people who are out this week to weigh in on that front.

As Lindsey mentioned earlier, we are planning to make additional changes to the composer in the near future:

@lindsey

We’ll be continuing this work in future iterations, so you may notice more movement or changes as we make progress there.

So we’ll also take the feedback we’ve gotten here so far into account in how we roll out additional changes as that work continues:

@mcwumbly

Composer redesign

After lots of internal testing and refinement, we’re almost ready to share our updated rich text editor here on Meta (so stay tuned to our Announcements!). This will help us continue to identify problems and polish rough edges so that we can make this more widely available in customer communities. Our initial version will support basic formatting and some essentials like image uploads, but we’ll be iterating on this over time to bring more of the current writing experience into this simplified editor.