[p2pu-dev] first impressions on new.p2pu

Philipp Schmidt phi.schmidt at gmail.com
Mon May 23 05:35:47 UTC 2011


Search is a problem we hoped batucada would solve.

Zuzel: could you check with Paul what the status on that is?

To reduce confusion on the courses list page, we could also consider listing
draft courses on a separate page.

P
On 23 May 2011 12:17 AM, "zuzel.vp" <zuzel.vp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sign up/Registration of new accounts was temporarily hidden on
> purpose. Before the migration occurs we need users not to create new
> accounts unless they had never used the old site so they keep their
> identities. After the creation of new accounts in the old site is
> disabled we will migrate all user accounts to the new site. At that
> point we will not need anymore the current restriction of not allowing
> any user to register accounts with username/email from the old site
> (unless they proved that they are the same person by login in with
> their username and password from the old site). After the migration we
> can make signup more visible again (either by having all the forms on
> the same page or by adding a direct link like in drumbeat/batucada).
>
> Most of the tickets are not assigned to a milestone now because we had
> to re-schedule things in order to move the migration to an early date.
> However even before this, search was assigned I think to milestone 0.9
> because it is a feature hard to implement in a way that scales. All
> solutions I have seen including search in a django project tend to
> become considerable slow when they are setup in a real world scenario.
> One solution could be to rely google for including search capabilities
> (http://www.google.com/cse/).
>
> Thoughs?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Zuzel
>
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Alison Jean Cole
> <alisonjean.cole at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Agree with both of Jessy's suggestions.
>>
>> ALISON
>> new.p2pu.org/en/alison/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:48 AM, John Britton <public at johndbritton.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I also think we should make the signup/signin box happen on the same
page
>>> as opposed to redirecting to a new page, less friction overall.
>>> --
>>> contact info:
>>> http://www.johndbritton.com
>>> @johndbritton - http://twitter.com/johndbritton
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Jessy Kate Schingler
>>> <jessy at jessykate.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2 pieces of feedback on someone looking at the new.p2pu site.
>>>> i had recommended they create an account in order to sign up for a
>>>> specific course. so of course the first thing they looked for was
a search
>>>> box. there's quite a lot of courses now, so i wonder if the "search
box"
>>>> ticket on lighthouse might deserve to be moved up a bit in priority
>>>> (currently "unscheduled")?
>>>> http://p2pu.lighthouseapp.com/projects/71002/tickets/149-search
>>>> the other immediate reaction was, "i have no idea where to go to sign
>>>> up". he looked over the page a few times, and then i pointed out the
>>>> "signup" section. in seeing it through his user behaviour, i agree this
>>>> could be more clear. having a couple of prominent buttons that get
displayed
>>>> for users who are not already a member of a course (or not logged in)
>>>> showing options to follow/participate would be a big help (and probably
>>>> help with user follow through). i don't actually see a ticket for that
yet.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jessy
>>>> --
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