astral posted:

I've been doing some work on cleaning up / reunifying SALR's menu code, and while I'm in there it's a good time to start getting some input: What should we do about SALR-starring threads?

For those who may not be familiar, starring a thread with SALR is an old, old feature. To star a thread, you can either right-click any post from within that thread and, using SALR's context menu, star or unstar the current thread. Alternatively, you can right-click a thread in a thread list to star or unstar it. Starring a thread puts it into a list. This list can be pinned to the SALR menu for quick and convenient access to those threads.


I don't use the feature myself, but here are my thoughts:

It probably needs a name other than 'star'. Although the idea of keeping the name 'star' and visually representing starred threads as bookmarks might be funny, it would just lead to even more confusion. That doesn't even take into account mod/admin stars, so let's just assume stars and the name 'star' are out entirely. 'Pinned' might be decent, but people might confuse that with forum stickies.

We should consider adding some sort of graphic to show "This thread is [starred]." Perhaps the graphic could help streamline the process of [starring] and/or un[starring] threads.

There was one suggestion to include a graphical representation of [starring] to SALR'S bottom-right corner page navigator, but that might make things a bit cluttered and, until we can resolve the name issue, would be extremely confusing.

Beyond that? Feedback would be greatly appreciated.