What Readers See

Pulse stays out of the way of people who are reading. On a healthy page readers see no banner at all; Page Health under the title still shows the score for anyone who wants it. A line appears above a page only when there is something worth saying, and there is never more than one.

A notice for readers

When a page may mislead the people reading it, they see one line with a way out:

The notice	When
Older page: another page covers this	Someone marked another page as the one readers should use. The way out opens it.
Links on this page lead to pages that no longer exist	Confluence showed the reader the pages those links point to in the trash.
Review overdue, with the date it was last confirmed correct	The page’s review date has passed.
Not changed in N days and read by N people this month	The page is more than a year old and more than 100 people read it in the last 30 days.

When the way out is not a better page, it is the page owner’s profile, so the reader knows whom to ask. The name is looked up by the reader’s own browser; Pulse never stores it.

From the notice’s menu a reader can also mention the page owner in a comment. See Changes Pulse can make.

This looks wrong

Any reader can tell the page owner that something on a page looks wrong, from the notice’s menu, with an optional note of up to 280 characters.

• The owner reads “A reader”. Pulse keeps the sender only as a keyed hash, never their name, so nobody is told who sent it. The form says so: The page owner will see your note, not your name.
• The owner and people who can edit the page see the note in Pulse, and can open the editor to fix it or mark it Resolved, not an issue. The reader sees the answer once, on their next visit.
• A person can send one note a week about a page, and five a day.

The note is the one text a person types that Pulse keeps. It is shown only to people who can edit the page and to the reader who sent it, and never written to a log or sent to analytics. Pulse keeps it for up to 180 days while the flag is open, and deletes it 30 days after the flag is closed.

An invitation for the owner

The page owner and the last editor see an invitation instead of a reader notice when a few steps would lift the page to Healthy: You can lift this page to Healthy, how many steps, the first one and its points. Fix now opens the editor with that step ready. Not now puts the invitation aside.

The review check

When the owner’s page is due for review, the owner sees You own this page with the review date.

• Still correct first shows what changed recently (versions, editors, the last major edit), then records that the owner checked the whole page. The page gets a new review date.
• Edit opens the editor.
• Not now puts the check aside for 30 days, for that person and that page only.

After you publish

Whoever publishes a page sees a short receipt above it: the score before and after, the band, and what changed. See The coach in the editor.

Why some readers see nothing

A page that was published recently cannot be out of date or due for review. For a reader of such a page, Pulse asks its server nothing at all until the page comes within two weeks of its review date, so reading stays as fast as it was.