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Create modal allowing logged-in users to choose preferred page density (content width)
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Description

Background

We would like to explore the possibility of building a modal for logged-in users which allows them to select the page density they prefer and informs them of the option to change it again in the future

Acceptance criteria

Proposed design

Screenshot 2023-03-30 at 3.29.25 PM.png (1×1 px, 672 KB)

Proposed copy
TBD

  • Should appear once per logged-in user
  • Should be dismissible
  • The change should be made upon selecting the modal and reflected in their user preferences

Event Timeline

ovasileva triaged this task as Medium priority.Mar 30 2023, 8:31 PM

The modal should have extremely neutral wording, such as "Wide width / Narrow width" instead of "Unlimited width / Existing width" ("existing" is biased). And "Select wide width / Select narrow width" instead of "Revert to unlimited text width / Keep existing width" ("revert" and "existing" are biased). Then this unbiased data can be used to figure out what width readers prefer. Hope this helps. –Novem Linguae (talk) 22:56, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

I share Novem Linguae's concerns, and would also add that the blue and white buttons could also be a source of bias; many users are likely to just click whichever button seems likeliest to get the popup out of their way so that they can read the article, and will click the blue button without much reading (similarly to clicking an "accept all cookies" button).

Suggestions:

For color: randomize the button colors, and (if you can manage it) the order in which they are presented.
Try both this and tooltips as different treatments of a sample of the same population (logged-in or logged-out) for better understanding of preferences.
Try this as treatments for a sample of both logged-in and logged-out for contrasting understanding of those two populations.