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

• 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
• p1 Make e-mails from support more useful to users (fix links and markup): bug 409904
• p2 Allow different sortings for forum search results bug 438360
• p2 Generally make getting back to your own posts easier
• 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 419387
• 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 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
  • Tell which attachments are accepted
  • Show an error if the attachment isn't accepted
  • Allow preview of post without just wiping the attachment form
• p3 Make "send an email when someone replies" the default and/or personally set-able via user preferences and/or remember last state.
• p3 Allow moderators to set threads as solved and highlight solutions
• 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)
• p3 Add status and icon for when the original commenter replies.
• 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 16479
• p4 Allow spaces in linked URLs: bug 436106