**Issue:** When testing the table of contents there were a handful of observable issues that could easily be tweaked in the design. These issues included:
- The word "beginning" within the table of contents looked like a conversation topic.
- Several testers couldn't tell that the TOC was longer that the truncated display
- Confusion as to which comment the metadata in the TOC referred to.
**Possible Solutions:**
- Provide a different typographic treatment for the word "beginning" within the table of contents
- Include a vertical scrollbar for table of contents
- Review earlier visual treatments for the metadata within the table of contents that had more spacing between elements and/or consider removing the metadata completely
- Condense the metadata so that it's more likely to live on one line.
=== Requirements
Augment the new ToC that appears on desktop when the `Vector (2022)` skin is enabled such that the following is true:
- The number of comments contained within each of the talk page's H2 sections appears in parenthesis next to the name of said H2 within the ToC
-- The number of comments should "run on" after the topic title rather than being presented on a new line and the number of comments should be presented in gray text.
-- The number of comments should be presented in the following format:
--- If there are multiple comments: `# comment`
--- If there is one comment: `# comment`
- The word `Discussions` should appear at the top of the table of contents in black, bolded text
- The number of comments that is presented after each H2 within the ToC should be automatically updated whenever a new comment is published to the page, regardless of the interface used to publish said comment
- When a section link is active/bolded, the metadata that appears after it (e.g. `(7 comments)`) should NOT get bolded
=== Proposed design
|Proposed design|Changes
|---|---
|{F35247531} [Talk Pages Visual Improvements](https://www.figma.com/file/DDPwDc8T6b97Vy7uNYyBUp/Talk-Pages-Visual-Improvements-T269950?node-id=3025%3A38634)|**1)** Remove icons within metadata, **2)** Only show # of comments, **3)** Run # of comments on after topic title (read: not on new line), **4)** Present # of comments in gray text, within parentheses
=== Open question(s)
- [ ] 1. What – if any – concerns does the Web Team have about the talk page-specific version of the ToC the Editing Team is proposing? //See: `===Proposed` design above.//