A few comments on the Talk page for Page Previews (Hovercards as it is known in beta) have suggested user-customizable options for the display of the previews.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T160999 Page Previews customization options | |||
| Declined | None | T148995 Hovercards preferences: Allow images to be disabled |
If we want to pursue any of these options we should create subtasks and use this as a tracking (unless another task already exists). This is my attempt to get something written down for further discussion.
Thanks for bubbling up this feedback @CKoerner_WMF
Team: FWIW Any user preferences greatly increase the complexity of the software and should be avoided where possible. Personally, I think it's an anti-pattern that we have so many user preferences/customisations which make it really difficult to provide performant experiences for logged in users).
I've marked this as an epic, as we should talk about this and flesh out the details.
From our async grooming exercise: ":We might want to leverage page previews for discovery work, in which case these could be relevant. "
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On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 1:11 PM Jon Robson <jrobson@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Olga will provide criteria and actions e.g. if low priority and older than X decline etc..