Some suggestions about popular hightlights

Harry Hahne

The "popular highlights" visual filter uses a soft underline, which is fine because it does not get in the way of reading.

I have a few suggestions about how they are displayed:

1. The big text that says "[6 highlights]" interrupts the flow of reading. It would be better if it were a small number or even if you were to hover over the highlight an a balloon pop-up show the number of highlights. I want to keep this community highlighting unobtrusive.
2. I don't think 5 or 6 people highlighting something is very significant. Somehow I think the minimum number should be much higher to be significant.
3. I would like to have an option in the "Next" and "Previous" button to move to the next/previous popular highlights. Right now I can jump to my own next highlight ("Annotation"). I would like to have the same option for popular highlights.

Is there any way to change how the popular highlights are marked?

JT (alabama24)

The big text that says "[6 highlights]" interrupts the flow of reading.

+1

I don't think 5 or 6 people highlighting something is very significant. Somehow I think the minimum number should be much higher to be significant.

It is my understanding that there isn't a set threshold, but it is dynamic. A more widely read and marked resource would have a higher threshold than a lesser read / marked one.

I would like to have an option in the "Next" and "Previous" button to move to the next/previous popular highlights.

+1

Is there any way to change how the popular highlights are marked?

Do you mean visually? I would like the ability to change the style, but if it can't be changed by the user, they have chosen wisely.