Rework the blog status in the form
Note: This is related to a part of #344 (closed), but I'd like to elaborate on it and give its own issue, since some UX testing revealed a more fundamental problem
When creating/editing a blog article, the user is presented with a Status
field, where they must choose between one of these 3 values:
- draft
- published
- deleted
When creating an article, the deleted
makes no sense: who in their right mind would create a deleted article?
But even in all other cases, the field still is confusing.
What would be much nicer would be to exclude the field from the form, and then replace the Submit
button by three buttons:
- Save as draft
- Publish
- Delete (this one would obviously not be shown when creating an article, only when editing one)
User testing revealed that published
and deleted
were confusing as status values, because they are adjectives representing the end state. But the user model is more an action/verb: I want to delete this article, I want to save this draft.