Include information about icons in text-notifications for comments

[azurelunatic]

Title:
Include information about icons in text-notifications for comments

Area:
comments, email notifications

Summary:
Include information about the icon in text-only emailed comment notifications.

Description:
For people who get plain text comment notifications and read their comments primarily in email, and load the site only when replying, this would be helpful in not missing nuances of the conversation being carried out in icons.

It is now easier to include icons meaningfully in text notifications because of the icon description field (though visual users using a graphic browser can still load the page and see the icon for themselves). The keyword used to select the icon should also be included, as this can provide some nuance in why that particular icon was chosen. If the comment was not chosen by keyword, the description should still be included: while many people know their friends' default icons by now, it may be a stranger commenting, or someone may have a new default icon.

This gives better historical context for people who save their comment notifications, as sometimes people change their icons. Rodney McKay viciously removing stupid obnoxiousness is a much better pair with a rant about Not Being That Guy than a mostly-unwrapped Pretty Young Thing.

The addition of icons can change a conversation: for example, "I see" is fairly neutral. A positively themed icon would make it unambiguously positive; a "FAIL" icon would make it unambiguously negative, and might push the conversation over the line where a community administrator might want to step in. (This situation happened years ago, but I remember it vividly.)

This would also be useful for comment edits: sometimes people (like me) edit their comments and only change the icon, and forget to put an edit reason. This results in the same text, without explanation, being sent in the emailed text notification of the edited comment. An observant recipient is probably going to figure that it was an icon edit, but including icon information in the notification would be helpful.

Poll #6523 Include information about icons in text-notifications for comments

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 55

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Should be implemented as-is.
34 (61.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
4 (7.3%)

(I have no opinion)
17 (30.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Remove redirect on logging out

[vass]

Title:
Remove redirect on logging out

Area:
site

Summary:
When you log out, you are asked to confirm if you want to log out. Then when you confirm, you are taken to the main site page. I think you should be taken back to the page you were on.

Description:
What should happen: you click 'log out' and then you are logged out but still on the same page.

What actually happens: (as of the last code push) you click 'log out', you are redirected to a confirmation page, then when you confirm your desire to log out, you are redirected to the front page. If you want to go back to the page you were on, it takes two more clicks, one of the back button to get you there, one of the reload button to get the logged out version of the page.

In general, I think it's better to redirect users as infrequently as possible.

Poll #6510 Remove redirect on logging out

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 72

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Should be implemented as-is.
49 (68.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (4.2%)

(I have no opinion)
19 (26.4%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.4%)