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Think about potentially confusing search scenarios #733

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JulianKniephoff opened this issue Mar 7, 2023 · 1 comment
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Think about potentially confusing search scenarios #733

JulianKniephoff opened this issue Mar 7, 2023 · 1 comment
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area:design Issues specifically about the broader design of the site area:search Related to Tobira's search area:usability Usability related issues

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@JulianKniephoff
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The introduction of user realms (#727) presents interesting design challenges regarding the search. Some random notes:

  • Will user realms appear in the search? The answer is probably something along the lines of "yes and no": We probably explicitly don't want them in the "main search" (whatever that means ...), i.e. if you just go to a Tobira instance and search for some lecture you don't want cat videos to come up. But at the same time, one can easily imagine use cases where users want to search a given user realm. Maybe even all user realms?
  • But even if not, it might just be confusing to be on a user realm, search for something you know is in there somewhere, and have the results come up empty.
  • However, it's also confusing for the search to behave differently depending on your current route.
    • This effect might be lessened by making the search an overlay instead of its own full page.
  • Maybe we want multiple searches for different use cases? 🤔 See also Münster requirements.
@JulianKniephoff JulianKniephoff added area:design Issues specifically about the broader design of the site area:search Related to Tobira's search area:usability Usability related issues labels Mar 7, 2023
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If user realms ever appear in a search of someone who didn't already know about your user realm, we should not say anything about "won't appear in the search" on the "create user realm page" that will be added in #727. Bc while it might be true now, if we just change it, users might not like their profile appearing in search results, despite them being told otherwise before. I added that to the next wednesday meeting agenda.

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