Currently when users want to upload a document, a modal prompts them for a document name alone, and users are left to figure out how to upload the actual files afterwards. I've also seen some confusion around creating '1 document' and uploading 'multiple files' to it.
I think it's better if we make the UX a bit more intuitive:
- Potentially rename 'Document' (at least in the frontend) to 'Document/Resource Bundle'
- Allow uploading multiple files on document creation (so, a file input in the modal)
- Or let them tick a box that says "Create a new empty text file"
- Some explanation text to be shown to the document author if there are 0 files (e.g. 'Upload your first file here!')
Slightly relevant feature idea is to support uploading Git URLs too, and just embed a repo preview client-side. This would make it easier to share summaries from GitHub etc without uploading everything twice, but risks losing the data when repos are made private later.
Currently when users want to upload a document, a modal prompts them for a document name alone, and users are left to figure out how to upload the actual files afterwards. I've also seen some confusion around creating '1 document' and uploading 'multiple files' to it.
I think it's better if we make the UX a bit more intuitive:
Slightly relevant feature idea is to support uploading Git URLs too, and just embed a repo preview client-side. This would make it easier to share summaries from GitHub etc without uploading everything twice, but risks losing the data when repos are made private later.