v11 experiment with the warnings profile tab

Please let me know what you think; this may become a non-bundled addon for v11

Hello everyone.

I'm experimenting a bit with the design of the "warnings" tab on member profiles (which tell you what warnings you have been issued). I'm mainly doing this for one of my v11 sites but thought if others are interested, I may turn it into a non-bundled addon.

Essentially it's a re-design. The tab would be renamed to "Account Standing" and would have a nice graphical representation of where a member stood in terms of following the rules. The screenshot below is an example of how I have it set up for my site.

The design is slightly inspired by Discord's "Standing" section, which I also attached.

Here is another idea… similar design but for a "Rank" tab which details your current rank (when using rank based groups) as well as the rank-specific settings and privileges you have locked or unlocked.

I had to censor a few things in this shot as it's from another website. Also not depicted (since I'm an admin and have all the privileges) is the list of privileges one has not yet unlocked that can be unlocked by ranking up.

Can't really enlarge the pictures for a better look but both experiments seem really useful at first glance. Communication is key, so the clearer things are the better. I think Discord's ordering makes more sense, I would expect Good to be on the left.

Design is not my strong suit but conceptually a good idea IMHO.

Adam Edington said

Can't really enlarge the pictures for a better look but both experiments seem really useful at first glance. Communication is key, so the clearer things are the better. I think Discord's ordering makes more sense, I would expect Good to be on the left.

From “Post #9,983”, 3rd July 2024, 11:17 pm

My original thinking was a progress bar… and the fuller it was, the better, thus the better items would be on the right.

However this makes sense too as a progression of steps. You start off on (and hopefully stay on) good. Then you progress if you get more severe warnings.

I've merged the rank tab into v11 as part of core_cns… IMO it was badly needed as rank rewards / restrictions are not properly communicated to users anywhere. I did modify the design a bit (see attached) to conform more with Composr's guidelines.


I will be debating the fate of the warnings tab and whether or not it will be implemented (and if so, if either bundled or non-bundled).

Yeah that's a great additon. Thank you.

For the rank stepper, if you increase the points required to something like 50,000 the circle does not enlarge to accomodate the new number. Perhaps for numbers like 1,000 we could use 1k, then 50k would fit without messing with the CSS.

Also the text "Here are a list of rank-based privileges you have unlocked or have yet to unlock, and any rank-based restrictions in place" implies you can see privileges you have yet to unlock. How can you determine what is unlocked/locked in the list?

Warnings/Account standing tab would be useful in core I feel.

Yeah Chris has "short number" code somewhere but I haven't found it yet haha.

I'm still debating about the account standing tab. My development is confined to what people are willing to fund me for (gotta pay my bills), and I don't know if that's something Chris would want to fund me to do.

Adam said

Also the text "Here are a list of rank-based privileges you have unlocked or have yet to unlock, and any rank-based restrictions in place" implies you can see privileges you have yet to unlock. How can you determine what is unlocked/locked in the list?

Oops, sorry I forgot to reply to this. It will tell you which are locked and unlocked… and locked items will have a locked icon.

To determine which privileges to list:

• The code takes the available privileges of the highest-ranked group (the one with the highest point threshold) and compares it with the available privileges of your current rank.
• The code also checks to see if all rank groups have that privilege. In that case, it won't display the privilege at all in the list (redundant to inform users about privileges they will have in all ranks).

Here is a more accurate representation of what the warnings tab re-design will look like.

The original design made many opinionated assumptions about what classifies as "caution", "danger", "at risk", and so on.

This design asserts those criteria more clearly. And instead of always only having one stepper active, multiple steppers can be shown active at the same time (they more represent active conditions rather than "progress").

From left to right:

• Good: Only active when the member has 0 formal warnings and no active punitive actions
• Warning: Active when the member has 1 or more formal warning against them
• Restrictions: Active if the member has any privilege restrictions as part of punitive actions, such as silences from forums or topics
• Probation: Active when the member is on probation
• Danger: Active if the member had one or more of their IP addresses banned (they can still access the site / account from another IP address so long as the member account itself was not banned), or if the member was previously reported to Stop Forum Spam and beyond for spamming.

cns_warnings hooks can define a new get_stepper method which can populate stepper items (or merge with / control existing ones), and define items to display under the stepper.



Example of the simplified stepper… it will use simplified mode if there are 7 or more items (I know there are only 6 in the screenshot; this is just testing). This is so it won't be cramped on mobile portrait mode. Touching any stepper or icon will show a tooltip explaining it.