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Feedback ยท Make trait preferences more discoverable for new users (accepted)

Trait preferences need to become more discoverable for new users. I'm not sure how that should be done though.

I've seen new users a few times commenting that they simply had not found out where traits were, or how to add them. (At least the completion bar tells them such a thing exists!) Just earlier I spoke with a new user in the help channel about how to add them, so that spurred this.

Something needs to be there to point users to where they are in the edit page and how to find them. Maybe the first trait should be expanded?

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created: 23 May 15 at 01:22 PM (build: 4/12/2015 6:11 PM beta)

Princess Izabella

It sure seems obvious once you find it (or are directed to it in my case!) but yeah, I'd likely not have found that if I hadn't of asked. Thank you again for helping me locate those options!

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

Yes, this is an issue, but it is a tricky one. Profile editing right now is based on the profile as a whole; to edit traits, you go to your traits. To edit preferences, you go to your preferences. To edit interests, you go to your interests. "Breaking" this link between where things are and how to edit them can cause serious issues with usability and discoverability, and would have to be done carefully.

My current plans are just to add little question marks to each of the "objectives" presented to you in the profile editor. Clicking them, like the tutorials, will launch you on a guided tour of how to accomplish this particular objective. Since we might have more things in there later, that are not entirely intuitive, that seems like the most robust solution.

Later on, when profiles are more complicated, we might break out the editing mode so that you get tailored areas to do the particular profile editing functionality, but is no longer representiative of the profile. This of course would require a preview mode and lots of other things, so it is not a trivial thing to do.

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

I'm unblocking this. Save any further suggestions or discussion, I will probably just add a little question mark next to them to prompt helpful information.

Lich Community Manager

Accepted, we definitely need to work on improving the discoverability of preferences.

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