[p2pu-dev] first impressions on new.p2pu

[Jessy Kate Schingler]

re user sign up-- sorry i wasn't clear. i meant signing up for a course, not
an account. he already had an account, but couldn't find where to sign up
for a specific course that was open for sign up. for these courses, could we
have a bigger button(s) near the top of the course homepage?

re search, have you thought about something like solr?
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

solr indexes along any fields you define (typically multiple), to enable
fast real time search given a large variety of potential parameters/filters.
it trades off space (ie, the indexes can get big) for speed and scalability,
basically. it's used on many "high traffic websites":
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/PublicServers.

<http://wiki.apache.org/solr/PublicServers>i set up solr for one of my
projects at sunlight and worked a lot with index definitions; if there's
interest i would be happy to set it up for us. it's free and open source.
index space isn't an issue for us AFAIK, but the main potential drawback i
could imagine is that our dev server probably couldn't handle the extra
load. thoughts?

Jessy
--
http://jessykate.com



On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Philipp Schmidt <phi.schmidt at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> >>>> --
> >>>> http://jessykate.com
> >>>>
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