Remove stars and bookmarks

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

@mcwumbly

It makes sense. I’m not digging the look of it as mocked up - I think just because of the bubbly blue-ness. If its over there, I’m not sure the light blue is needed anymore to make it stand out.

I agree - there’s likely a much better way to handle that style if it were moved to that position

@mcwumbly

Sorry for the tangent, but why are there ever both numbers?

You get a blue circle with a number when there are new posts in a topic since you’ve last read it, and you get a grey circle with a number when there are unread old posts within a topic.

It’s one of those “kind of unclear unless you hover and learn” features

[mcwumbly (Dave McClure)]

Thanks for the explanation. I feel like one number would be enough (showing how many unread posts there are).

While the color can still indicate whether any of them are new.

If that helps save space it seems completely sufficient to me and probably less confusing.

So in your above example, it’d be a blue 93.

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

@codinghorror

Data shows that both star and bookmark are fairly rarely used, so combining them makes sense. You can still do the things that star implies, so nothing is really lost, and the simplification benefits enumerated above are nice.

@codinghorror

I don’t know if I am in the mood to do this before V1 since there is a lot of other stuff to do, and the presence of the stars is not exactly killing children at the moment.

Can we resume this?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

If you rotate that by 90 degrees it looks like a yes

I can wait on this, the actual discussion has been done to death already.

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

Unless @BCHK feels that there’s still a strong case to be made for removing bookmarks as well, this thread can now be closed, in light of stars being deprecated.