Basic terminology

Basic terminology

Conduit uses Feed, Article, Profile, and Settings to name the places where you find content, read or write it, view an author, and change profile information. The same terms identify links, lists, fields, and actions across the application.

Before you start

The terms you see depend on whether you are signed in, whose profile you are viewing, and which profile route you open.

Prerequisites

• Know whether you are signed in before looking for Your Feed, comment controls, or profile actions.
• To see Your Feed, be signed in. Global Feed is available without that condition.
• To see Edit Profile Settings, open your own profile. Another person's profile offers Follow or Unfollow according to the following state.
• To see Favorited Articles, open the profile's favorites route. The other profile route uses My Articles.

The Editor and Settings fields appear without a required marker.

Find terms in feeds, articles, and profiles

Use Home to choose a feed, an Article page to work with its author actions and comments, and a Profile page to choose an author's article list.

Prerequisites

• Be signed in when you need Your Feed, comments, or a profile action that requires authentication.
• Know whether you want the global list, the following list, an article, or an author's profile.

Steps

1. Choose the feed that matches what you need:

   If you need to…	Select
   Read articles from the people you follow	Your Feed
   Read the global article list	Global Feed

2. On an Article page, use the available article action for the task you need:

   If you need to…	Select
   Change an article you can modify	Edit Article
   Remove an article you can modify	Delete Article
   Change whether you follow the author	Follow or Unfollow
   Change whether the article is in your favorites	Favorite Article or Unfavorite Article
   Add a comment while signed in	Post Comment

3. Choose the profile list that matches what you need:

   If you need to…	Select
   Read the author's articles	My Articles
   Read the profile's favorited articles	Favorited Articles

Result: The selected feed, article action, comment action, or profile article list is on screen.

Use the editor and settings terms

Use the Editor to enter an article's title, description, body, and tags.

Prerequisites

• Open the Editor when you are creating or changing an article.
• Open Settings when you are changing your profile information.

Steps

1. In the Editor, enter the article information in the fields below.

   Information you need to enter	Field term
   Article name	Article Title
   Short description	What's this article about?
   Article body	Write your article (in markdown)
   Article tags	Enter tags

2. Select Publish Article to publish a new article or finish an edit.

3. In Settings, enter profile information in the fields below.

   Information you need to change	Field term
   Profile picture address	URL of profile picture
   Profile name	Your username
   Profile biography	Short bio about you
   Account email	Email
   Account password	Password

4. Select Update Settings to save the profile fields.

5. Select Or click here to logout. to log out and return to Home.

Result: The Editor takes you to the article after publishing or editing. Settings takes you to the profile after a successful update, or Home after logout.

Recognize messages and know what comes next

These messages tell you whether an article list is loading, empty, or ready, whether a profile is loading or unavailable, and whether comments require sign-in.

After a successful article publish or edit, the Article page opens. After a successful settings update, the Profile page opens. Logging out returns you to Home.

Result: You can match the message on screen to the next available action.