Refined post scheduling behaviour & copy

[JohnONolan]

We've had some feedback that our copy for scheduled posts is a little hard to understand, because it's both sparse and timezone specific:

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Scheduling confirmation

☝️ The post has been successfully scheduled, but for when? Also "view post" might not make total sense in the context of scheduling, because we're still pre-publication, so it's really still a preview link.

 

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Scheduled status

☝️ I can see that the post is scheduled, but no way to find out when without extra clicks.

 

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Post management

☝️ If I'm not in the same timezone as the publication timezone, it's really hard to reason about when this is scheduled for. Also, a more significant bug: This post was not set to be delivered by email, but the message says that it will be "sent".

 

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Relative publishing time

The funny thing is that we already have this, but we hide it in the publish menu, so it's not at all visible unless you know where to look 👇

AND apparently we also have this really very helpful message, but it only appears if the publish time is less than 10 minutes away:

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Change 1 - Schedule confirmation

• Be more explicit about the confirmation when something is being scheduled, and give a plain English nicely formatted summary.
• If the post will be sent by email, specify who to: either "all members" or "paid members"
• Wrap each value ("paid members" / "aug 29th" / "14:39 (UTC)") in a <span> with white-space: nowrap so they are never split across lines.
• Timezone should be publication setting, relative to UTC, eg: (UTC) or (UTC+8)
• Change the link copy to "view preview"

Change 2 - Post status

• Always display when the post is scheduled for in header
• Change "Scheduled to be" => "Will be"
• Use the same logic as the post-management (below) for what copy to display ("in 17 minutes" / "in 1 hour" / etc)
• If the post will be sent by email, specify who to: either "all members" or "paid members" (same copy as schedule confirmation above, but no bold formatting needed)

Change 3 - Post management

• Change "Scheduled to be" => "Will be"
• If the post will be sent by email, specify who to: either "all members" or "paid members"
• Specify timezone publication setting, relative to UTC, eg: 14:32 (UTC) or 14:32 (UTC+8)
• Adjust relative time copy for if post will be scheduled in 1-12 hours (see below)

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In less than 1 hour (correct)

Somewhere between 1-12 hours: should be "in X hours"

Somewhere between 12-24 hours: (correct)

Further in the future (correct)