Wedge

Inline deletion doesn't quite work: it feels like the post gets unapproved. I like the recycled approach better where the deleted post gets moved.

What about a "tab" (like browsers one) in every board for recycled stuff?

It's more of a style concern than UI issue right..?

BTW I added a poll yesterday, if you guys want to simply vote your preference without defending it.

Hard to say...I would like a new approach, a better way of doing that. Inline is nice. I like the recycled approach still but it's getting old school. :P

I think inline is going to compete with moderated, and if I have a spam post that was moderated, I don't want it just to change colour :P

Hence my thought that maybe we need to find something new to do about it.

Have you looked with your copy of XF? They certainly did something different with it.

I haven't, no. Maybe I should...

Looks like it uses inline...

That's inline - sorta. The normal process for 'inline' is to throw a different background on it, like moderated posts currently do, and what SimpleDesk does - and that's wrong to me.

What XF does is nicer, much nicer, but it's still a bit close to "You are ignoring this user" for my liking.

That is honestly my favourite way of doing things.

Why?
Or you could for instance, as I suggested, hold the Shift key when clicking 'Delete', and JavaScript will catch this and tell Wedge that you want to do an immediate and definitive delete ;)

I should probably make a screenshot to indicate the problem. The general point is that unless you have the deleted post do something other than just the same as moderated but with a different colour, it's noisy. If I delete a post, I'm indicating I don't want it there at all.

WP does this to a point and I don't like it there either - in WP's case, you get a big list of comments to look at, white BG = visible, yellow = moderated. When you delete a moderated post, it collapses to a much smaller row with 'this has been deleted'. The whole point of deletion is that I wanted to delete it, and it be gone, rather than to have traces left.

I guess it sort of depends on the interface style, but if you collapse it down to something like that, you still end up with something pretty similar visually to the whole 'You are ignoring this user' bit.

In short, whatever you do with it keeping it in the topic page, you still collide stylistically with one or other of what's already present.


As for shift-delete, that's still got problems, and all you end up with is SMF without the recycle bin, which is one step forward and then one back again.

I really like the gist of deleting posts inline. My main concern is how posts will be toggled, though. I quite like the looks of how XenForo does it, judging by the screenshot posted above. If Wedge's implementation will be anything like it, it'll probably have my approval. :)