Some observations:

• When I'm in Visual Mode, and I highlight text to add a link, the text box becomes transparent at a certain point and becomes challenging to read:

• In Visual and Source modes, the "Watch this Page" checkbox should be checked by default once someone starts to draft a Reply.

• When I delete the default summary, I also make it so that the revision history doesn't include section titles - this seems wrong.

• When I see a default comment summary, it might be nice to have some quick actions here to expedite the process - (maybe for future release)

*In Preferences, the "Restore to Default Settings" shouldn't be a red text link that directs to a separate page. It should be a checkbox that autofills the default fields and users can still customize their preferences.

*In Preferences, adjust the language to say "Enable quick replying by default"

In T262988#6479851, @iamjessklein wrote:

Some observations:

• When I'm in Visual Mode, and I highlight text to add a link, the text box becomes transparent at a certain point and becomes challenging to read:

This looks like a regression, possible with the desktop improvements project. We should file a separate task.

• In Visual and Source modes, the "Watch this Page" checkbox should be checked by default once someone starts to draft a Reply.

This default state is based on wiki- and user-preferences which we respect.

• When I delete the default summary, I also make it so that the revision history doesn't include section titles - this seems wrong.

If the user goes the length of entering advanced mode and clearing the edit summary, we should respect that. Probably if we "fixed" this users would complain that they can't clear the edit summary.

• When I see a default comment summary, it might be nice to have some quick actions here to expedite the process - (maybe for future release)

I think we should assume senior contributors are already comfortable with modifying edit summaries.

*In Preferences, the "Restore to Default Settings" shouldn't be a red text link that directs to a separate page. It should be a checkbox that autofills the default fields and users can still customize their preferences.

You should check with Volker as he worked on OOUI-ification of Special:Preference, but this is beyond the scope of our project.

*In Preferences, adjust the language to say "Enable quick replying by default"

The preference enables the feature completely, and it doesn't change the behaviour of any existing workflows, so I don't think we want to add "by default".

In T262988#6479851, @iamjessklein wrote:

Some observations:

Thank you for pulling these together, Jess and keeping a special eye out for how Junior Contributors might experience the tool.

Per the conversation you, @Esanders and I had today, none of the below ought to block T249394. With this said, it looks like one ticket needs to be filed as a result. I've marked which tickets needs to be filed and added some comments I had in response to the feedback you and Ed shared in line below.

Note: the annotations you've added to the screenshots are helpful in understanding what you are describing.

In T262988#6480123, @Esanders wrote:

In T262988#6479851, @iamjessklein wrote:

Some observations:

• When I'm in Visual Mode, and I highlight text to add a link, the text box becomes transparent at a certain point and becomes challenging to read:

This looks like a regression, possible with the desktop improvements project. We should file a separate task.

+1.

Resulting action

• @iamjessklein to file task.

• In Visual and Source modes, the "Watch this Page" checkbox should be checked by default once someone starts to draft a Reply.

This default state is based on wiki- and user-preferences which we respect.

+1. Context: T245222#6012991.
During the conversation @Esanders, @iamjessklein and I had today, we came to understand the root of this comment to be the fact that Junior Contributors expect to automatically be made aware when someone responds to something they say (See: T247485#6089355).

This is a need we plan to address in the work we have planned to increase the likelihood people know when someone is talking to them. This work will happen in T233447. As such, we are not going to revise how the Watch this page checkbox behaves at this moment.

• When I see a default comment summary, it might be nice to have some quick actions here to expedite the process - (maybe for future release)

I think we should assume senior contributors are already comfortable with modifying edit summaries.

Mmm, yes. I think it would be worthwhile to think about the edit summary as a "first rate object."

Said another way, maybe if the edit summary was able to contain "richer" information (e.g. links as T263314 and T54174 propose) people would use them to be more "expressive" (e.g. link to the talk page conversation an edit stemmed from) and as a result, people who are new would have an easier time visualizing/understanding what "edits look like" and how they are made. Some additional thinking in T263508.

*In Preferences, adjust the language to say "Enable quick replying by default"

The preference enables the feature completely, and it doesn't change the behaviour of any existing workflows, so I don't think we want to add "by default".

No action needed at this time. If it turn out that the location and language of this setting is unclear, we are likely to hear as much from people wanting to run the Reply Tool off.