Last modified: 2014-01-23 21:12:26 UTC
The orange "You have new messages" talkpage-message Notification, currently leads just to the top of the user talkpage. (Ie. [User talk:Quiddity]) It should lead to either: * the subsection (if known, and if there's just one new message), or * to the diff (if subsection is unknown, or if there are multiple new talkpage messages). One user has requested that it *always* lead to the diff, which /would/ be more consistent, but I also understand the desire to not confront everyone with a diff (VE, newcomer friendliness, etcetc). ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notifications#Two_clicks_instead_of_one:_Why.3F )
The WMF core features team tracks this bug on Mingle card https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/flow/cards/395, but people from the community are welcome to contribute here and in Gerrit.
(In reply to comment #0) > The orange "You have new messages" talkpage-message Notification, currently > leads just to the top of the user talkpage. (Ie. [User talk:Quiddity]) This is one of the things I probably miss the most about the OBOD, that I could get a direct diff to the new edits. > > It should lead to either: > * the subsection (if known, and if there's just one new message), or > * to the diff (if subsection is unknown, or if there are multiple new > talkpage > messages). From a code standpoint, either of these are probably doable. > > One user has requested that it *always* lead to the diff, which /would/ be > more > consistent, but I also understand the desire to not confront everyone with a > diff (VE, newcomer friendliness, etcetc). I don't think always going to the diff is a good idea, for some of the reasons you mentioned. Adding a "You have new messages (diff)" thing to the personal tools menu would be icky and add some more clutter. I don't know where else we could add the link. CC'ing Jared for some design input.
I could have sworn this was a duplicate bug... I may be remembering the bug about the Echo drop-down nav thing not including a "view changes" link.
(In reply to comment #3) > I could have sworn this was a duplicate bug... I may be remembering the bug > about the Echo drop-down nav thing not including a "view changes" link. You're probably thinking of bug 54391 - which I've been told is just to do with the email bundled diff (or something).
Change 94506 had a related patch set (by Aude) published: Link "You have new messages" to user talk diff https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/94506
Change 94506 abandoned by Aude: Link "You have new messages" to user talk diff Reason: since ext.echo.alert.js is deleted, shall try new approach :) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/94506
