Web Translate It mini-update

I just pushed a very small update to Web Translate It to fix a few user interfaces I had gripes with. Yep, it’s the second update of the day. The differences are quite subtle but I think they make a difference. Read on.

Better Activity Feed

The activity feed show the last activity on your project. It displays the last translations, the last comments and the last files uploaded to the system. The problem is that showing all the translations is sometimes a little bit too much information, which makes the activity feed useless in practice, because you miss the important things.

To fix this issue, the feed about translations are now grouped by author and language.

You can see the hidden translations by clicking on “XX worked a few more strings”. It toggles the rest of the translations the translator has worked on.

Comments

On the project page you can now see the comments you haven’t read yet. This is useful if you deactivated the email notifications for Web Translate It in your settings page.

There are also two subtle UI touches on the comment popup. The first one is the “Answer this question” button.

When you click it, it prepares your answer: the drop-down is automatically set to “answer” and the text area gets the focus. Like so:

The second new feature here is the “Mark as answered” button. It basically close the question without answering it. This is useful because sometimes the question has been answered via another medium (email, chat or phone).

Better language switch

There are more language switch throughout the pages and they are better. The old javascript-y toggles have been replaced by a simple drop-down, which are more efficient to use. Often simpler is better.

I hope you will appreciate this (very tiny) update, which should make your commenting experience much better!

Thank you for using Web Translate It.