Can PF improve these two features for a better user experience?

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The discussion focuses on two main user experience issues with Physics Forums (PF). First, users express frustration with the "Read more" message that appears when copying content without being logged in, arguing it is unnecessary and annoying. Second, there is concern about the prominence of the "Log in with Facebook" option in the login popup, which some users find distracting and prone to accidental clicks. Suggestions include potentially disabling the "Read more" feature in specific sections, like "Science and Math textbooks." The PF team acknowledges the feedback and is open to considering improvements.
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Greg Bernhardt said:
At this moment no. Anything is possible in the future.

Well, since you're so interested in improving PF (which is awesome!), I have two things which I currently hate:

1) When one is not logged in, whenever one copies something from PF, we get a message "Read more: https://www.physicsforums.com"... I hate that and it pisses me off! I don't think anyone likes that.. I don't think there's any reason to have this "feature". One already knows about PF, since one is copying something from the site. It's also very easy to delete, so it's not going to avoid copying content and not mentioning PF. So it's basically a nuisance.

2) When log-in in PF, the "Log-in with Facebook" is much bigger and draws way more attention than the normal "Log in"... I hate this.
 
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DataGG said:
Well, since you're so interested in improving PF (which is awesome!), I have two things which I currently hate:

Of course, anytime you have feedback I'd love to know about it

DataGG said:
1) When one is not logged in, whenever one copies something from PF, we get a message "Read more: https://www.physicsforums.com"... I hate that and it pisses me off! I don't think anyone likes that.. I don't think there's any reason to have this "feature".

I do understand. However, first off, why are you ever logging out?? :D

We do this because many many guests will copy content from a discussion without reference back. Obviously it's easy to edit out, but sometimes they forget and PF gets the proper credit. Have a look at this search result

https://www.google.com/webhp?source...f&q="Read more: http://www.physicsforums.com"

DataGG said:
2) When log-in in PF, the "Log-in with Facebook" is much bigger and draws way more attention than the normal "Log in"... I hate this.

On the side bar or in the login overlay popup?
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
I do understand. However, first off, why are you ever logging out?? :D

We do this because many many guests will copy content from a discussion without reference back. Obviously it's easy to edit out, but sometimes they forget and PF gets the proper credit. Have a look at this search result

https://www.google.com/webhp?source...f&q="Read more: https://www.physicsforums.com"

Hum... Indeed.. Would it be possible to disable in the "Science and Math textbooks" section only? I found about that "read more" thing when copying and pasting book titles from PF into amazon or other book sites... I don't know if disabling it in said section would be something you'd want to do?

I don't think there's many people creating blog posts that copy content from the section I mentioned.

Greg Bernhardt said:
On the side bar or in the login overlay popup?

In the login popup. I always click "Login with facebook" by mistake.. I guess I'm going to have to get used to press "Enter" instead.
 
DataGG said:
Would it be possible to disable in the "Science and Math textbooks" section only?

It is possible and I'll consider it :)

DataGG said:
In the login popup. I always click "Login with facebook" by mistake.. I guess I'm going to have to get used to press "Enter" instead.

Interesting, I'll look at ways to improve this, thanks!
 
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