draft issues | feedback: "journal stopped after 2022"

[biumiamy]

"journal looks so bad"
but how is it possible with all our many articles in the pipeline?

Actually, the Varia issue shows the following date:

even though, as it's an open ended issue, there are articles from 2023 (but nobody saw that probably):

Possible solutions:

• show what's going on behind the scenes (articles pending)
• annual editorials
• milestone and article status could be helpful (#464)
• regularily update events
• add date in release notes
• change name from "Varia Issue n.2 - 2022" to "Issue n.2 - 2022-2024" (useful for open ended issues, indicating start date and current date)

example: how to show issues, open-ended issues or just announce a "coming soon" issue

if we show the article, need to decide what labels we want to display (e.g. draft, technical review, peer review, etc.)

if we show the articles (with or without link to the preprint), need to provide more structure to not loose the overview. For example by adding the ToC of the issues (with or without article names):

[lwieneke]

change name from "Varia Issue n.2 - 2022" to "Issue n.2 - 2022-2024" (useful for open ended issues, indicating start date and current date)

To be confirmed, but I think we wanted to organise the open ended issues by year – so in that case there should be two more issues (2023 and 2024). But @inactinique probably has a better idea on that.

[eliselavy]

is_open_ended flag on Issue available on dev: http://10.240.4.179/api/issues/?is_open_ended=true

[eliselavy]

Agree about:

• remove the year

• displayed draft issue
  the first world of the call of paper. Need to be filled in API Addition flag is_open_ended journal-of-digital-history-backend#216 + link call of the paper

[biumiamy]

• dont show article with title nor preprint
• show ONLY issue and description (like a teaser)

Figma

design proposals:

(1) horizontal alignment of issues with issue short description and link to CFP

(2) same but above the filter bar to not disrupt the use of the filter

(3) show the draft issues in vertical alignment with short description (link to CFP by button or html link in text)

[inactinique]

• dont show article with title nor preprint

  • show ONLY issue and description (like a teaser)

Figma

design proposals:

(1) horizontal alignment of issues with issue short description and link to CFP !

I would prefer this one, the (1). I think the 3rd really does not work and I'm note sure it's logical to put the coming issues above the title of the page (2).

Would it be possible to not announce the number of the issue? As those are really hard, for those three competing issues, to guess before we start their publication.

[danieleguido]

@inactinique @biumiamy in the proposal n1 in both article cards and issue titles have the same display. Personally, I favor proposal 3 (see screenshot below, I've added a horizontal rule for clarity). If we opt for proposal n1, then the layout of the draft issue titles should differ differ from the layout of the articles; also, it should match that of the published ones to be consistent.

[inactinique]

Yes, but then the articles are very far away from the top of the page. Number 1, with titles being a bit greyish instead of black? Like when an item exists but is unavailable and you cannot click on it?

[danieleguido]

We could condense the description to create smaller issue cards. However, the primary issue with option 1 remains: the draft issue appears visually distinct from the published version

[danieleguido]

However, there is another problem I foresee: when we publish articles in Varia, what will happen then?

[inactinique]

However, there is another problem I foresee: when we publish articles in Varia, what will happen then?

Note sure to understand the question. We won't announce Varia issues, It's not necessary.

[eliselavy]

However, there is another problem I foresee: when we publish articles in Varia, what will happen then?

Note sure to understand the question. We won't announce Varia issues, It's not necessary.

Last article published Delors 's article, ...

[danieleguido]

to reduce the distance from the top page, I suggest to collapse / open the description. We will surely have less issue titles without articles in the coming future, so the distance between the articles and top of the page will be reduced even more

[inactinique]

It's better. Can it be even more collapsed?

[eliselavy]

In developemnt
http://10.240.4.179/en/articles

To look at logged and not logged

@danieleguido year need to be removed from filters / labels

[inactinique]

@danieleguido can you also remove the number of the issues, for the coming soon ones? Because, for instance, if three articles of the Tools issue are ready before the China articles, then the issue 3 will be the tools. If it's the opposite, then DH China will be the issue n. 3.

[eliselavy]

@danieleguido can you also remove the number of the issues, for the coming soon ones? Because, for instance, if three articles of the Tools issue are ready before the China articles, then the issue 3 will be the tools. If it's the opposite, then DH China will be the issue n. 3.

you see the number of articles of the coming soon issues because you are connected to the admin.
otherwise you don't see it
@inactinique

[inactinique]

It's not what I meant.

[eliselavy]

Ok catch .
@danieleguido

• Remove Issue number for issue in DRAFT status

• Remove the year in the issue filter

• Remove the year in the issue label

[biumiamy]

It's better. Can it be even more collapsed?

How many lines? just 2?

[biumiamy]

Okay we will adjust it to sth like this

• change to 2 lines
• and text adjustment without mentioning the issue no.

[inactinique]

That's better and better. Just one comment: no date at all. Just "Coming soon". Because it can sound as a commitment.

Two lines are good. So the DH China line, but without the 2024.

[biumiamy]

We just discussed it again:

for the draft issues:

• use "coming soon" and add the month as soon as we're sure
• only 2 lines of text to save space

for the already published issues:

• add a date to know which year it belongs to (= annual Varia)
• Andreas suggested a yearly Varia issue

ToDo @biumiamy

• how to show new article (e.g. "new" label)

[biumiamy]

add a "new" label when a new article is added (for 1 or 2 weeks)

[biumiamy]

Another way to indicate that we do a yearly Varia and that we are doing many could be adding a filter directly

[danieleguido]

see #610

published issues:
I've added the num of articles (and num of articles filtered if filters are enabled); removed the dates; added the "new" label and a coloured border

draft issues:
Only "coming soon" is visible, if there's a date I suggest to add in bold <b></b>in the description of the issue

[biumiamy]

After I checked, with only 3 articles for 2022, 3 for 2023 and 5 for 2024 (coming), I think we dont need to make annual Varia issues a thing for the moment. (But please share any thought on this)

[biumiamy]

Otherwise I think we need to move the "action" area on the issue overview page to the same place as we have it on the articles:

And I would propose to change the "sort by" to something more like this:

I think as it is at the moment, it wasnt visible enough and the text is too long to read. Short and precise could help our authors more I suspect. See currently:

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[biumiamy]

here's a new issue for this topic

[eliselavy]

In prod https://github.com/C2DH/journal-of-digital-history/releases/tag/v4.4.2