Compare selected revisions for Flow history
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	Aug 7 2015, 11:37 PM

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User request from Sv.wp for an equivalent to "Compare selected revisions" as is available in wikitext page history.

This will enable a user who is not subscribing to a board, to still check on which activity is the most recent, in a topic, or a post.

One suggested solution would be to use the "blue line highlight" - as seen in links like https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Sptu5vsmp6qy7jta&fromnotif=1&topic_showPostId=spvow32y5ltrzh8s#flow-post-spvow32y5ltrzh8s for any posts that were added/edited during the selected timespan. This would not show classic diffs, but it would show new content in context (which can be very hard to understand from a diff).

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Status	Assigned	Task
Declined	None	T111529 Create a page about (more) advanced Structured discussions features
Stalled	None	T113581 Create an help page about Structured discussion history system
Open	None	T85563 StructuredDiscussions history page issues (tracking)
Open	None	T108407 Compare selected revisions for Flow history

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Quiddity created this task.Aug 7 2015, 11:37 PM

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A way to see which post (comments) has been added during say the last hour using a similar way as we compare revision today would be good if a discussion page a lot of active topics and you want a complete update of everything new.

Catrope triaged this task as Medium priority.Aug 12 2015, 11:39 PM

Catrope moved this task from Untriaged to Product/Design Work on the Collaboration-Team-Triage board.

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Quiddity added a parent task: T85563: StructuredDiscussions history page issues (tracking).Aug 13 2015, 6:58 PM

• DannyH moved this task from Product/Design Work to Freezer on the Collaboration-Team-Triage board.Aug 21 2015, 10:25 PM

Quiddity mentioned this in T114302: See which Flow posts contain the latest updates, via the 'cur' in history pages.Sep 30 2015, 8:12 PM

Sunpriat subscribed.Sep 30 2015, 9:36 PM

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Trizek-WMF added a parent task: T113581: Create an help page about Structured discussion history system.Oct 19 2015, 8:18 AM

This.

Highlighting new posts only works for the narrow use case.

After a Flow board had been messed up by a series of edits then fixed, I had to open it in two tabs side-by-side and very painfully micro-examine that there were exactly zero character differences between the old and new versions.

Alsee unsubscribed.Sep 28 2016, 8:02 PM

Trizek-WMF merged a task: T176410: Highlight range of changes.Oct 3 2017, 5:34 PM

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Trizek-WMF moved this task from Backlog to History Structured Discussions on the StructuredDiscussions board.Oct 3 2018, 6:16 PM

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