As per title...

I guess one would go to a user's profile -> 'Posts' tab in order to see the respective user's activity. The way it is now the list (table) has a 'Last updated' column. That column lists the date the post was updated and this doesn't mean that it was updated by that user necessarily. It would help to list a custom 'Last post by [user_name]' column as well. Shorting should default to that column in order to be able to actually tell how active the user has been lately. This way, the 'Posts' tab would serve a similar purpose as the 'Commits' tab that's next to it.

BTW, I think this was how the way that the old design used to work anyways, so it is kinda of lost functionality case. If I remember correctly the respective tab was called 'Track' or something.

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tvn’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Closing old issues. Please re-open if needed.

klonos’s picture

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...reopening

@tvn: here's what the "Posts" tab in your profile looks like:

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The way I expect this tab/page to work is to provide information focused around the user in question - not be another issue/post list filtered down to only the nodes to which the user has posted something at some point in time. So, I'd first look for the top-most issue/post in the list, then at its date and that would help me realize if/how active that user has been lately.

In your profile for example, (at the time of this writing) what comes up at the top is #1991500: Blocks in sidebar on issue pages forces the rest of the page to 2/3 width and it shows as "Last updated": 11 hours 25 min ago. If I go to that issue, I see that your last comment there was in fact back on August 22, 2013 at 11:14pm. This becomes even more obvious when viewing the profile of inactive users. For example, I look at a project maintainer profile and see a "D7 port" issue and its "Last updated" column shows say an hour or a day ago. I initially come to the conclusion that this maintainer is active, but when I look at the actual issue I see that the maintainer has not replied for 4 years and the "Last updated" date reflects some "Is this project abandoned?" questions posted in the meantime by random users. See what I mean?

What I would expect (since I'm at your profile) is to see details about *your* posts/comments and the date that *you* last made them. So, I would like the "Last updated" column to be a "Last comment by [user]" column actually.

The red "updated" and "new" tags next to the issue could perhaps accommodate the "Last updated" date somehow (inline/tooltip/whatever). The point here is to track the user's activity - not the activity of the posts/issues they follow.

klonos’s picture

...just to clarify the issue at hand here: comments made by other users to issues that the user in question has also posted comments cause these issues to "bubble-up" to the top of this list when they should simply have no effect. What should be listed at the top of this list is the issues with the most recent comments made by the user in question.

Hope that makes more sense.

klonos’s picture

I never used my "Your posts" page in my profile. I just realized that it works the same way as the "Posts" page of other users' profiles (listing both issues and forum topics). The thing though is that I honestly have no use for that tab since I rarely make comments in forums (I must have ~2000 issues I commended in but only like 10 or 20 posts in other places). So, I guess that when viewing their own profile's "You posts" tab, people might actually want to see things sorted by the date of update in order to see if one of the topics they follow has been updated. The problem there is why should the "Your posts" page duplicate what is already listed in the "Your issues" page?: #2101961: Do not include issues in the query that creates the "Posts"/"Your posts" tabs.

dddave’s picture

This would be a huge improvement if implementable.

killes@www.drop.org’s picture

This should be a feature request for "Drupal.org customizations" (along with similar suggestions). Please move there (D7 version).

klonos’s picture

Project: Drupal.org site moderators » Drupal.org customizations
Version: » 7.x-3.x-dev
Component: Redesign » Lists

...done.

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mgifford’s picture

I agree that this would be a nice additional option. However, I like having access to that list of issues I've been involved in too so that I can see how they are progressing.

yesct’s picture

the list of issues a person is involved with can be obtained with the advances search following filter.

this is something else.

drumm’s picture

Component: Lists » User profiles