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Feature/onboarding tasks #454

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@maxwn04 maxwn04 commented Oct 20, 2024

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Closes 453.

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Added a column for onboardingSeen and onboardingCollected in the Users table. Adjusted private profiles to return information for these onboarding tasks.

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Left some initial comments and questions. I'm a little curious about future extensibility, e.g. if we have more reward-type features (basically acm passport), the way we're going right now demands having boolean flags on the user object. Thoughts on designing an alternative solution to handle this?

My main question is also how the onboarding reward is supposed to be "collected" since that was one of the main issues we were discussing back during acm passport ideation

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@@ -269,7 +288,7 @@ export default class UserAccountService {
.activity(txn)
.logActivity(activity);

return updatedUser;
return updatedUser.getFullUserProfile();
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what's the need to return full user profile here?

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uh not sure why i did that

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if (userProfile.onboardingCollected) {
throw new BadRequestError('Onboarding reward already collected!');
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Prior to returning, we should probably also log this in the activity table

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Do I just add the points bonus to activities or should I do the update to the user model as well?

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Points bonus should just be fine–can you check if we log to activity any time there's a user object edit? I know we do it for user access updates but if there's more instances of it besides that then we can log the update to the user model

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maxwn04 commented Oct 23, 2024

I think the main reason I'm just hard-coding this achievement for now is because we wanted just to deliver this feature quicker while we have more discussions about actually how to actually design and implement an ACM passport system in the future. Especially since ACM passport still needs to be designed and there's still feedback and some other tasks to do on the backend side, I felt it's probably best just to do it this way first and redesign later.
As far as future extensibility, I think the idea of users pressing a button to claim achievement rewards is the simplest, and also delivers better on the ux side of things, since they get the satisfaction of claiming the reward and there might be a graphic/stickers to collect for these achievements which they could see get added when they collect achievements.

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Sure, I agree that having users "claim awards" or manually try to cash in is probably a good idea for now. In any case, updating that sort of thing in the future can be more easily swapped out.

If you really want this feature to be live by next week or something, then I suppose this change is fine. However, it does introduce significant tech debt–you'll now need some sort of script/migration to port over the data in this format to any new schema, then drop the column on the user table. Not ideal/good practice, you would need to have this run on every single user and generate x new rows in whatever future table holds this kind of data. Certainly not the end of the world computationally though.

My recommendation would be to design out the new feature (at least a V1 that can support multiple kinds of rewards), then introduce it at the start of winter quarter since fall has already started and it's unlikely that many new users are onboarding to the portal right now. I would really recommend not letting unclean practices pile up in the codebase and then deal with future problems later on, but we can discuss how you feel about it.

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