Fixing contradictory navigation tab text
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Fixing contradictory navigation tab text
User Interface (UI) / User Experience (UX) · Articles & templates · Created by illumiinae
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navigation-tab secrets genetic-ancestors
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Some of text used in navigation tabs at the bottom of articles is either contradictory or a very obvious lie. For species with multiple genetic ancestors, it says, "This species has multiple parents, only the first is displayed below" and then immediately after says, "All parents: [insert only one parent here]" For secrets, if you open a secrets tab on an article where you do not have access to said secret, it will read, "This article has no secrets." It's easy to notice this isn't the case though because articles that don't have secrets do not have a secrets tab. I like pulling a fast one on my players/readers as much as the next guy, but I don't think this fools anyone for very long.How does this feature request address the current situation?
For genetic ancestors: If it's not possible to list more than one parent in the first place, I think it would be best to just avoid any potential confusion and keep the first line where it mentions there are multiple parents, but get rid of the "All parents:" line, at least until the tabs are upgraded and actually able to list all parents. For secrets: I think there are two ways you could approach this, depending on if you want to keep secrets secret or not.- Simply rewording with something to the effect of, "You do not have access to this article's secrets." Viewers will know there are secrets, but at least it won't look like we're trying to fool them.
- Keeping the wording the same, but having the secrets tab be visible by default on all articles. This way, it's impossible for the viewer to know if an article truly doesn't have any secrets, or if it does but they just don't have access to them.
Current score
20/300 Votes · +4700 points
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by Kamikaze Dungeon Show
on 2022-10-27 14:38 -
+300
by Beowulf68
on 2022-10-27 04:17 -
+300
by Gram the maybe
on 2022-10-27 04:04 -
+300
by TsunamiSesen
on 2022-10-26 18:01 -
+300
by crossesk
on 2022-10-19 11:54Often the fixes are the best improvements. I'd love to see some of the rough edges cleaned up more generally.
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+300
by M. A. E. Krawczyk
on 2022-10-15 13:19 -
+100
by Scalenex
on 2022-10-14 22:14 -
+300
by A Fierce Kobold
on 2022-10-13 15:37 -
+300
by A Glamorous Dragon
on 2022-10-12 02:56I think this might be taken care off in the cleanup scheduled just before WA goes out of BETA, or at least it should be.
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+100
by Tijmuhn
on 2022-10-11 11:27 -
+300
by Dalf32
on 2022-10-10 05:01 -
+100
by Nimsy
on 2022-10-09 17:06 -
+100
by Vibeca
on 2022-10-09 14:43 -
+100
by architectfantasy
on 2022-10-09 08:20I agree, this is probably a time-consuming task but an editor should go through all texts in the templates and see where there are mistakes, I've seen a few others as well which I can't remember off the top of my head.
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+300
by amelianite
on 2022-10-09 03:09 -
+300
by Ratha
on 2022-10-08 23:17 -
+300
by AuraGuard
on 2022-10-08 22:31 -
+100
by Blueparox
on 2022-10-08 22:21 -
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by A Fierce Goblin
on 2022-10-08 21:46 -
+100
by ddaniel
on 2022-10-08 21:21 -
+300
by illumiinae
on 2022-10-08 20:25
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