Differentiate participants and projects

[chadwhitacre]

Right now they're too close visually which is confusing. What's the difference between them?

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[chadwhitacre]

+1 from @riseupdotnet in #3853.

[mattbk]

+1 from https://twitter.com/hadleywickham/status/688105609456058370.

I go to his page and can't figure out how to give him money. I spent a few minutes before giving up

The point being that people expect to be able to give at ~user pages, and they can't, so they get frustrated. #embarrassments

[mattbk]

We've talked about parallels between these pages before, such as always having the donation action area on the left side (as shown in above screenshots). So I still think the ~user left sidebar should contain something like "Give to one of ~user's teams."

More extravagantly, how about ~user pages include team page snippets (the main body) that you can scroll through, each with its own donate button? Then each team page could be the reverse, and list the team members, albeit not with the donation links.

catapultpgh's Teams

[mattbk]

+1 from https://gratipay.freshdesk.com/helpdesk/tickets/4104

[chadwhitacre]

+1 from @dakur in #3993:

I found a link to this page: https://gratipay.com/~davegandy/ and I understood, that it should be page, where I can send some small amount of money to the user. But when I enter the page, I have no idea, what to do. There is nothing like "pay" or "give" or "send" button or something like that. Just "Search" ("what should I search?"), "Sign in" ("I don't want to sign in as I don't need to have profile on that page as I don't want to receive money from anyone") and links to social profiles ("I don't want to check the user's social profiles, I just want to send him some money."). So the only option I can do is to leave the page.

When I was thinking about it then, I would say, that I should sign up and sign in first and then somehow return to the user's page and there will be some "pay" button. But that's not intuitive and I don't want to create profile just to check out if this is the correct way to pay him.

[mattbk]

+1 from https://twitter.com/_jeremyharris/status/732759646268624896

couldn't even find a damn donate button

[mattbk]

Any feedback on my idea here: #3852 (comment)? We'd have to show just a teaser of the team description with a "read more" link.

[rohitpaulk]

I like the idea of making teams more prominent on ~user pages.

I'm working on trying to create something that looks like:

(One 'preview' like the above for each team that a ~user owns/belongs to)

[chadwhitacre]

@rohitpaulk Nice. Does it make sense to sync the visuals of that with the cards on the identities page? It could be a pattern we repeat across the site, payment methods also comes to mind.

[rohitpaulk]

Does it make sense to sync the visuals of that with the cards on the identities page?

Yep, would be great if we could come up with a pattern that fit all of those. We could call this component a 'card' - it must contain an avatar + title text, and optionally might contain sub-text.

[chadwhitacre]

GitHub, for reference:

Organization

User

[nobodxbodon]

Would it be a low-hanging fix to relabel and adjust layout like:

[rohitpaulk]

Removing assignment for now, focusing on bugs

[mattbk]

+1 from http://twitter.com/ABozicko/status/884031730436513792.

@/sinemetu11 Hi, after half an hour of figuring out Gratipay for Poemmm, I give up. Just thought you might find it usefull x)

[mattbk]

Would it be a low-hanging fix to relabel and adjust layout like:

How about a simple "X has no projects and cannot receive donations. Contact X to let them know you want to give!" under the "Projects" heading?

[mattbk]

+1 from aldeed/meteor-collection2-core#32 (comment).