Joining a group should be a one click process. It's not like it's an irreversible action. it seems unnecessary to ask people to confirm when they join.

Leaving a group also requires confirmation, but this feels less unnatural to me.

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ezra-g’s picture

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Issue tags: +Usability

Adding "usability" tag.

js’s picture

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I agree. Anything that helps for casual, public (social) users.

rob.f’s picture

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Agree. Make it easy. (remember how well everyone liked Windows Vista?)

mstef’s picture

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Category: bug » feature

I personally don't think it should be changed. There are 'Join' links all over certain pages, especially the group listing, making it very easy to mis-click. I'd rather confirm an action that accidentally join groups and have to go through the trouble of leaving them.

lightsurge’s picture

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I think it would be okay if it worked a little like Flags... where, if you click Join, with ajax it turns into 'Remove' (you could even have less obtrusive confirmation process going the ajax way).

Of course, that seems a long way off though, because for example on a group homepage, all the ajax blocks and the activity stream would have to be refreshed to take account of the status change.

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Version: » 6.x-2.x-dev
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