User:JMatazzoni (WMF)/new-filters-draft-page

June 12, 2018: ‘Hide filters’ function coming to Watchlist and Recent Changes

We plan to add the ability to hide/show the “Active Filters” area of the New Filters interface on both Watchlist and Recent Changes. See the designs below (or this ticket).

The design for this hides the Active Filters display area and the search bar, so that patrollers can see more search results sooner on the page. But even with these tools hidden, the page is still fully usable, with patrollers able to interact with tools like Live Updates, Saved filters and the ability to change the time period searched or number of results displayed. When you need to edit a filter setting or create a new filter, you just click the “show” button to restore the Active Filters area.

Making the New Filters tools collapsible is something users have asked for for some time. We should b able to release this change in June (2018). We’re moving on it now to particularly accommodate Watchlist users, for whom the New Filters will be graduating out of beta this month to become standard on all wikis (see the post below for more details on that).

At left, the New Filters are displayed in full. Clicking the "Hide" link in the upper-left corner of the Active Filters bar causes this area to collapse (as shown at right).