Today, I made my first "real" code contribution to Utopian, where I actually added a feature that I think will make Utopian much better for all of us: moderator comment templates! See the below animation for how it will work:
As you saw in the previous animation, the moderator workflow is vastly improved from this:
Review sectionSince the modal relies on pre-made consistent templates, the comment format of Utopian moderators will be much more consistent.
It's very easy for any code contributor to add more templates, but here are the current ones I have added:
Here are the Pending Review templates, in action:
Moderators can make their own calls about which template to use. Even more, if they don't think any of the templates satisfy their needs, they can edit the comment themselves and send!
Some other changes include that if you click verify and change your mind, it doesn't automatically mark the post as Pending Review. Rather, it asks if you want to do that, and if so, it marks it that way.
Additionally, if a moderator marks a post, say 'Pending' and does not want to write a comment, they don't have to. They can simply press the x at the top of the moderation dialog.
It will show another confirmation that says "Are you sure you don't want to write the comment?" If they click 'Yes', they don't have to write the comment :)
Please check out my Utopian Pull Request at this link for more information! I've added lots of new features leading up to the moderation comment dialog as well :)
Though my contribution isn't live on Utopian just yet (as of 7am November 19th), I suspect it will be pretty soon, after we audit and vet it enough. Thanks for being on Utopian!
Thanks for reading,
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image sources: all
proof of work: pull request, my commits