No feedback when posting to activity stream frequently

[DJPaul]

When posting activity stream items (via AJAX) from the "what's new, user?" form, there is an eight second delay built in to throttle posting. However, there is no user feedback that they need to wait until they can post again, potentially leading people to think that something's broken.

We should display a "hey, slow down" message somewhere.

[DJPaul]

mockup

[DJPaul]

I've attached a quick mockup of the sort of thing I have in mind. Thoughts?

[boonebgorges]

Nice idea. I like the idea for formatting and behavior. As for language, "Slow down." sounds a bit unfriendly. How about "You're posting updates too quickly! Try again in a few seconds."

[boonebgorges]

How do you think this should be done? The current method (setting the button to 'disabled') means that jQuery no longer registers a click event. So there'll have to be a different way of keeping track of when the last post was left. Maybe a cookie that expires after 8 seconds?

[cnorris23]

We could use the cookie and then using javascript, disable the post button, and add a countdown timer as text in place of "Post." What I just wrote is about as far as my thought process has gone. Feel free to shoot it down ;)

[DJPaul]

The current method is easy to bypass (reload the page). What about moving the throttle to PHP rather than client site

[DJPaul]

Bumping to a future release unless someone wants to work on designs and a patch.

[Dennissmolek]

I am willing to work on this, but I think its not needed to add another request via PHP.

I think if we put in a notifier about the limit it will explain why its not working.

If users start complaining about tons of repeat comments then we can work on a PHP solution.

[djpaul]

(In [4814]) Remove hidden delay from posting to the activity stream, and tweak behaviour of the "what's up" form when posting. Fixes #3165. See also #3360