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mjec
Allow faculty to specify due date
Rather than automatically determine the cutoff time & date for submitting niceties to be printed and read by the staff, faculty should be able to manually set (and change) the next due date.
Setting the due date via a user interface is both more transparent and simpler.
@tayloraburgess writes:
We designed niceties to "open" & "close" (i.e. allow Recursers to access the interface) at certain times by having the backend only serve data within a particular datetime range. For almost every end-of-batch week after my own, Rachel would frantically text me at some point, because niceties either wasn't opening or closing as expected. ... [My] personal recommendation would be to remove this unnecessary functionality and just allow the faculty to open & close niceties via some simple interface. (If I were working on this project again, I would in general remove most things that we designed to be automatic & fancy and just replace them will simple controls the faculty could use.)
After talking with Rachel and Mai, we decided that this was a nice-to-have but not a requirement for reviving niceties. RC staff will communicate deadlines, and if people write niceties after those deadlines, then they will not be selected for reading - sad, but not the end of the world.