This is how the +merit works at the moment.
When you want to +merit someone, you click the +merit (please see here
https://prnt.sc/i9avtx ) and a new tab opens up with the option to send desire merit to the person.
Can't we improve it like this...
When someone click on the +merit then instead of opening a new tab I think a light-box (small pop up window) would be more user-friendly. Once you click on the send button (
https://prnt.sc/i9az0k ) then the content of the light-box may be change with a message saying, "sMerit sent successfully" or the light-box just disappears. This way I guess a user will not need to go to the new tab and after finish sending the merit the user will not need to come back to the window they were in at the first place.
Also I think at the moment there are no notification option for receiving merit. A notification once you receive any merit to the email inbox would be nice since this merit thing is playing very important roll for the forum members.
Hope the admin team consider these suggestions to improve the user experience of the forum.
The problem with this approach is that you're still dealing with popups and when you return to the original page, it hasn't been refreshed.
I would think the right way to do it would have the merit button take you to the merit page instead of opening a new window, and then returning you to the thread once you leave merit, that way you can see your merit has been left, and you're right back where you started. No annoying popup windows on your mobile, etc...