Support/ForumUX/PRD
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Goal of project
To improve the experience of contributors and users on the support forums to make finding what they're looking for easier. This is a collection of changes (hopefully most small and simple) that will streamline giving support and make the workings of the forums more transparent for users.
Priorities
- p1: Bugfixes/missing features that can't be worked around at all
- p2: Features that severely hamper posting/moderating/use with tedious workarounds
- p3: Features that hamper posting/moderating that have small workarounds
- p4: Good to have
Bugs
- (p) p1 Thread filters shouldn't break ordering with regards to older threads bug 498105
- p1 Allow more search options for contributors (not just solved threads) bug 501880 (Create advanced search pages)
- (p) p1 Make e-mails from support more useful to users (fix links and markup): bug 409904
- (p) p2 Allow different sortings for forum search results bug 438360
- (waiting on bug 498105) p2 Generally make getting back to your own posts easier bug 504751
- p2 Add status and icon for "invalid" = This question doesn't apply to Firefox. bug 501883
- p2 Log in on the page when replying to threads instead of having to navigate away to a separate login page bug 504716
- p2 Add ability to change thread statuses (for moderators) from a thread itself rather than from editing the firstpost or going to threadlist bug 413666
- p2 Add ability for moderators to remove solved status from threads (and posts) bug 506168
- p2 bug 444331 Make thread filters work as they should and make them more apparent, adding filter options for:
- Threads with no replies
- Threads with last post not by a contributor/threads with a reply from original poster
- Threads by the logged in contributor
- p3 Make the screenshot uploader for forum posts not suck bug 506164
- Tell which attachments are accepted
- Show an error if the attachment isn't accepted
- Allow preview of post without just wiping the attachment form
- (p) p3 Make "send an email when someone replies" the default and/or personally set-able via user preferences and/or remember last state. bug 504753
- p3 Add icons for "solution proposed" and "request for more info" (icons are used in the thread listing -- currently we have a lock, a check and a page) bug 506167
- p3 Add status and icon for when the original commenter replies. bug 506166
- p4 Make it easier for users to find their way back to their posted question by showing a post-submission page bug 505432
- p4 Improve quality of asked questions by providing better guidelines in the submission form bug 505425
- p4 Canned responses/content blocks for faster forum responses bug 416591
- p4 Pretty URLs on forums so it looks like: support.mozilla.com/en-US/forums/1/123456 rather than support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=3&comments_parentId=123456&locale=en-US bug 416479
- p4 Allow spaces in linked URLs: bug 436106
- p4 Tagging for forum threads bug 505527
UI
We need some UI help for the following:
- Advanced search page(s) - UI that does not confuse user bug 501880
- Forum search
- Fields needed:
- Search terms
- thread status (pick one or many)
- post author
- tags
- created/last posted after date (or in the last XXX)
- sort by (relevance, date of last post, date of original post)
- Fields needed:
- Advanced KB search
- Fields needed:
- Search terms
- language (dropdown)
- category (Firefox 3, 3.5, Help, troubleshooting) should be able to select multiple
- tags
- Fields needed:
- We can merge forum and kb search on one page but they have different options so we need to be very clear on what they're searching for.
- Forum search
- Need help figuring out better UI for filtering forum threads. How to make it more visible but not clutter the interface. bug 444331
- Forum thread list should show more statuses. eg: [1]. bug 506167 bug 506166 bug 501883
- Icons for "solution proposed" and "request for more info" and "doesn't apply to Firefox" and "original commenter has replied" or alternate way of showing statuses
- Make it easier for users to find their way back to their posted question by showing a post-submission page bug 505432
- Should we do it as an independent page or put this info above the existing page? Potential information in mockup in bug, but could use help redesigning.
- Improve quality of asked questions by providing better guidelines in the submission form bug 505425
- Information we need/like to have:
- Detailed and specific summary (for thread topic)
- What version of Firefox (we detect this automatically but we need to give the option to type in case they're using a different browser)
- Operating system (ditto)
- And then lots of details including:
- Steps they are taking to see this issue
- What have they tried as far as fixing
- URLs of problematic websites
- Full text (not just a summary) of any error messages or warning messages.
- If Firefox is crashing, the most recent 3-5 crashIds (we need to tell them how to get this)
- What extensions are they using (we also need to tell them how to get this)
- Security software they're using (Norton, McAfee) -- not necessary for most issues but if we can find a way to gently suggest that they include it, it'd be good.
- Information we need/like to have:
- Need icons for the following actions: detach this post (to a new thread), move this thread (to a new forum) and lock this thread. bug 413666
- 16x16. Existing icons are shown to moderators in posts where they can make changes.