I would like to promote Wei Dai’s suggestion that it would be nice if it was possible to share drafts privately and then potentially make them public at a later point. (I think there’s some chance that this is already possible, but the UX doesn’t seem intuitive, otherwise I would have noticed already.)
Before implementing, it seems worth talking to users to find out whether this would actually make them more likely to share their internal work publicly at some point. It could also be good to find out whether there are any other ways that could make people more likely to share their internal work publicly.
Some of this will appear with the new editor, which has collaborative editing features built in.
but the UX doesn’t seem intuitive, otherwise I would have noticed already
I admire your confidence. There’s a sense in which if an experienced user doesn’t know about a feature, it isn’t well designed. OTOH, I assign some probability you’ve forgotten what the new post dialogue looks like.
I think for me personally, this would work better if there were two buttons at the end – one called “publish”, one called “share as draft with users” or something like that. That puts it more in the reference class of “this is a form of publishing my work” rather than “here’s some additional feature that I don’t understand how it works”.
Also: I notice that my wording was a bit unfriendly – apologies, I would like to retract that. :)
EDIT: It seems that drafts don’t support comments. I think this is one of the main features I was hoping for.
I would like to promote Wei Dai’s suggestion that it would be nice if it was possible to share drafts privately and then potentially make them public at a later point. (I think there’s some chance that this is already possible, but the UX doesn’t seem intuitive, otherwise I would have noticed already.)
Before implementing, it seems worth talking to users to find out whether this would actually make them more likely to share their internal work publicly at some point. It could also be good to find out whether there are any other ways that could make people more likely to share their internal work publicly.
Some of this will appear with the new editor, which has collaborative editing features built in.
I admire your confidence. There’s a sense in which if an experienced user doesn’t know about a feature, it isn’t well designed. OTOH, I assign some probability you’ve forgotten what the new post dialogue looks like.
Very cool!
I think for me personally, this would work better if there were two buttons at the end – one called “publish”, one called “share as draft with users” or something like that. That puts it more in the reference class of “this is a form of publishing my work” rather than “here’s some additional feature that I don’t understand how it works”.
Also: I notice that my wording was a bit unfriendly – apologies, I would like to retract that. :)
EDIT: It seems that drafts don’t support comments. I think this is one of the main features I was hoping for.
Re: your edit—yep, that will come with the new editor, though maybe not in the first iteration.