Last modified: 2014-11-03 14:44:56 UTC
Per discussion in various bugs (bug 59807, bug 61737, bug 53879, bug 47658) and various threads onwiki,[1] we would like to have a limited Undo feature for "Thank". The main difficulty to solve, is that currently a 'Thank' will instantly send an (email/echo notification) to the target. Therefor, some sort of backend delay-mechanism is probably needed, plus a frontend indication for the Thanker that "undo is possible for x seconds" or "sending Thank in x seconds. Undo?". 30 or 60 seconds have been suggested previously. (Side-notes: On Desktop, this would replace the current Confirmation-step, from the history-page and diff-page. It would also bring consistency to the Thank process in Flow posts (which currently have no confirmation-step). On Mobilefrontend, it would solve the problem of mis-clicks, without having to implement a confirmation-step.) [1] search for 'undo', 'confirm', and 'remove', at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notifications/Thanks
I assume this has to be done in Echo?
The main alternative (afaik), is to implement https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92315/ throughout, so that at least the confirmation-action is located near the Thank-link. (Currently the confirmation dialog on desktop, appears in the middle of the screen, which is usually nowhere near the Thank-link)
On mobile, if there is a confirmation link it would be better situated far away from the large green "Thank" button: one accidental click could easily turn into two accidental clicks (while dropping and catching phone, nodding off to sleep, etc). But an "undo within 30 secs" sounds a good option.
*** Bug 53879 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've now filed Bug 72903 - Need option to switch off "Thanks", in view of the slow progress on this or Bug 61737.
