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Accidentally changing rating while scrolling on mobile
Not sure if this is only me but while using the site on mobile on multiple occasions now I accidentally changed the rating of something while just scrolling down to the activity field because my finger happens to touch the rating area at some point. Sometimes I don't notice this (there is no feedback or anything) until way later or worse not at all.
I'm not even sure how we could improve this but maybe someone else has an idea?
Hi @LeonNamowitz, thank you for bringing this up.
This has happened to me in the past, luckily I usually see the popup saying 'Saved' and I realise what has happened.
Just been looking at this on the beta site, I think a possible solution could be cancelling the rating change if the page scrolls too far down from where it was when initially pressed down.
Will have to play around with it though when I have the time, if anyone else has any better ideas, I would be happy to hear them! This one doesn't sound that great, but if it works for now, it'll hopefully be better than the current situation.
Happend too me a couple of times too and its really annoying if you don't notice it instantly.
I would take another approach. I would just show one star with the rating next to it, for example like imdb does. if there i no rating yet just for a gray star for example. The whole range of stars should only been shown once you click on the star.
Yeah I almost agree with @Seyloria that it should ideally just be 2 clicks or touches to set a rating. 1 additional click is totally fine and it would avoid the issue entirely.
It's just a UI question I think. I like the current look and for example some sort of confirmation dialog could also work.
Or just show the number of stars inside the star itself like this.
It has to work with all rating scales. I'm using 0-100 for example.
Apologies this took so long to get to.
I was able to get it to work much better by adding a simple solution of comparing the pages scroll position at start of press with the position at the end of the press. If it's the same, we update rating, otherwise we ignore the change.
It seems to work well in my testing, please feel free to get back in touch if there are any further issues.
Thanks!