OC Easier way to add articles

I'd like there to be an obvious way to add articles to magazines. Currently I have to somehow realize that I need to do it through the plus sign in the upper right. It's also shared with all magazines, so a surefire way to add articles to the magazine I already have open would be great.

Wile writing an article, you could also expand what OC means and how it's supposed to be used. I assume it stands for Original Content, but what does that actually mean in the context of kbin?

ernest,
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Currently, the "Add New" link works contextually. If you are in a specific magazine and click on it, the magazine will be automatically set in the form. Maybe @cody will have a better idea on how to make it even more intuitive.

Yes, you can use it to mark content (links, articles, photos) that you are the author of. After completing the guides, I will add them to the FAQ section.

rzeszutek, (edited )
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@ernest @cody @kepic

The preview was done quickly and without thinking, so it's not the most logical and beautiful. But it is, and it seems to me that it illustrates how the component should behave.

kepic,
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It's more of a layout issue, really. Add article is in an odd place - I'd expect it to be on the right side infobox, or maybe above the articles. If I didn't know from earlier experimentation how it worked, I would never post articles.

Another issue, in the same vein, is that in the magazines articles are under 'Threads,' but they're called articles. There's pretty much nothing associating "Add new article" to 'Threads'. Again, something that you'll have to just try out.

Other topic altogether. Why is there an empty space at the beginning of edit area?

rzeszutek,
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@ernest @cody @kepic

This item is partially designed. In addition to the "general" button in the navbar, in the general list and microblog as well as in the content belonging to the selected channel, a form is visible at the top. When clicked, it should go to the full, expanded form. You can also do as on , i.e. move to a new tab after clicking, but in my opinion this is a bad solution and unintuitive.

tojikomori,
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I think the /new form itself is fine as implemented today. What's missing in the current implementation – but present in this comp – is the "Add content" button at the top of the right rail. I'd expect that to be present when I'm logged in and looking at a specific magazine, and I'd expect it to link to /m/<magazine slug>/new

A similar button is present as part of the instance-wide intro box that atop the right rail in a logged-out view, but it disappears once I log in and there's no equivalent button in the magazine section.

I also think this comp's stronger treatment of the "+ Add" button in the global nav bar helps by making the button stand out a little more, but it's still grouped on the right side of the global nav. The problem is that everything else in that area of the nav is a global, instance-wide action, so intuitively it's not the place we look for a magazine-specific action like adding a new article.

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