Large Community Design: 10 details to improve the user experience

　　1. Design of large community navigation three points to consider:

A "At any time" appears at the user's hand;
b Minimize the occupancy of the page;
C Give users a good sense of "position."

Now the general large community is to use the left side of the hidden framework design to achieve. Regarding the position feeling, in the navigation block's embodiment is the current browsing stop the target to highlight.

　　2. "Redo Previous commit" feature

HTTP protocol is short connection, because the network instability causes the user to publish the failure, should provide the recoverable means.

　　3. Fully customizable visible can be editor, divided into three kinds of situations:

A Users can choose their own favorite editor. Like Freetextbox,....
b Users can customize some of the functions of the editor, such as some users like to publish pictures, publish video, but some really like to insert code, etc., should provide optional customization features to avoid excessive functionality to affect the ease of use of performance and improve load speed.

C With certain intelligence, such as entering the map area, the mapping function automatically appears, the user enters the programming area, the automatic appearance inserts the code function, and so on.

　　4. Anonymous reply to posts

There are many sites that provide this functionality, and many sites do not provide this functionality. I think providing this function is a sign of whether a community is considerate to the user. Always remember to guide the user to register instead of forcing the user to sign up. The former brings the registered user to the community's identity and stickiness will be stronger.

　　5. Consideration of Paging

A Users should be able to choose to display 20 per page, or 40, or any other specified paging value at any one time. This can be used for list pages as well as for content pages.

b Try to use numbers to represent the page number, not the top/bottom page style. Baidu and Google's design is good.

　　6. Short message function in station

A There should be a limit to capacity. For example, save a maximum of 20 articles. Station Short message is used for instant communication and notification information is not used for storage. To remind users to process their information in a timely manner. It also cleans up short messages from users who don't come in n years to avoid wasting system resources.

b You can export short messages.

C Draft box features. Meet the needs of two users: first write well, think about whether to send, finished, suddenly do not want to send, but not sure whether to send in the future, to provide a saving function.

D You can set up information that does not receive certain users or do not accept information from all users.

　　7. Intimate search function

Regular users in your community for a long time, will naturally add a lot of friends, a lot of collection of posts. Also may publish many posts, should provide the accurate directional search function, may search own publication or the collection post, the friend's post and so on. This feature is not available in most communities.

　　8. Provide a search box in a suitable place in the user's writing area (editor)

Google or Baidu can be used in the search box. Some users like to write online and occasionally need to search for references. This will provide users with a certain convenience. It is also possible to increase revenue for the site. But pay attention to the premise that does not affect the user writing. This feature is particularly suitable for technical blogs.

　　9. Intelligent Recommendation Posts

Some communities in the essence of the post, there is a recommendation of the concept, but I think the recommendation is not determined by the site, but should be based on the user's previous browsing records, collection records. User information such as the hobby of intelligence judgment extraction users are most likely to like the post as a recommended post, of course, may also consider a variety of factors to consider the post, increase the recommended success rate.

　　10. Landlord/Blogger's reply "highlighting"

This can be useful at some point. But I think it's especially useful for blogs. Because you read blog blog article, the blogger's natural interest in the reply, the meaning of the forum is not particularly big.
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