Board Thread:New Features/@comment-10696822-20200806052329/@comment-4099316-20200817101243

Discussions moderation tools need a significant overhaul, and there's some quality of life improvements the discussions need in general.

On the moderation end, the current app does not offer access to insights or reported posts. Desktop, mobile browser, and even the old apps offered moderation tools which are currently missing on the discussions app. As it is, mods cannot rely on the app to actually moderate, and it makes it necessary to hold onto the older, unsupported apps because of features which have since been lost or opening the site on mobile, which completely defeats the point of having an app in the first place.

There is also a lack of an audit log/history for moderation actions taken. Ostensibly moderators should be trustworthy users who can be given the tools to help maintain a health community... but this is also the internet, and sometime folks with a taste of authority realize how easy it is to exploit it. One such problem is that the number of moderator actions is tracked, but a log of exactly what those actions were is not available. 100 actions could just as easily be deleting 100 spambot posts, or it could be deleting and undeleting the same post just as many times. The lack of a page history also means when a mod adds or removes text, there is no record of what was originally said in the post vs what was altered by the mod.

Some general quality of life improvements would be a better listing of posts made. The infinite scroll with no page breaks makes it nearly impossible to go back any length of time at a reasonable pace. There is also a lack of a search bar, which does not help in finding old or similar posts. Curiously, we can tag articles when making a post, but there is no option to even search by those tags. If you know what you are doing, you can finagle a way to browse them, but its not possible on the app and is far, far too cumbersome to have ever been the intent.