pauamma: Cartooney crab wearing hot pink and acid green facemask holding drink with straw (Default)
Res facta quae tamen fingi potuit ([personal profile] pauamma) wrote in [site community profile] dw_suggestions2012-07-15 09:24 am

Merge full FAQ search form into FAQ list

Title:
Merge full FAQ search form into FAQ list

Area:
User documentation

Summary:
Add a language field to http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faq (like http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqsearch has) and redirect http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqsearch into http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faq.

Description:
There's no real reason to have a separate search form since there's ample space for the one missing field (FAQ language), and the complete form isn't linked from the simplified one, meaning the only way to find it is through the sitemap. Then, the site map should be updated to merge the 2 items, and likewise for any applicable menus. (I can't use them because they don't work for me, so I don't know what's in them.)

Alternatively, there should be a link to the complete search form from the FAQ list (but since thw in-index search was added to avoid that, that's a markedly poorer solution.)

Poll #11271 Merge full FAQ search form into FAQ list
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41


This suggestion:

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Should be implemented as-is.
19 (46.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (9.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
18 (43.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

pocketmouse: pocketmouse default icon: abstract blue (Default)

[personal profile] pocketmouse 2012-07-27 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
Wasn't there a similar bug months ago?
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[personal profile] the_shoshanna 2012-07-27 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"With changes" because, IIRC, official Dreamwidth pages are only in English and will only ever be in English, so why do we have the language field at all? Seems like another LJ holdover that should just be rooted out; the two pages are just redundant.

(Of course, if I'm wrong about the DW FAQ being English-only, then I vote for the suggestion as originally posted.)
denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (Default)

[staff profile] denise 2013-03-23 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
rejecting because that's the page you get directed onto after you perform a search, too, and is where the results are displayed. so, there's reason to have it!

(if you want to open a bug for the "hide the language field" part of it, just go ahead and do that part, no need for a separate suggestion!)