Featured Content System

[Bad Gateway]

SITE CHANGES

I NEED TO STIM

ETA: I feel like it might just end up with 5 threads all titled "nigger", but time will tell

 

[Samoyed]

it good

 

[Hammersmith]

Can there be a button which makes you able to hide or show the featured content box?

 

[Search]

IMHO:
It either needs more "bling" to it to make it a truly featured content. Like thumbnails that can be pulled from threads. My experience is - I haven't noticed it at all. Of course I'm autistic and such but her ya go, pal.
Or some vertical space reduction with animated scrolling. To reduce space used and make it look more "modest" yet informative.

 

[Synthwave Obsessed]

I dig it. This change overall improves the website and allows more flexibility for future modifications. I will miss the Nool Approved Threads, but Happenings will start having more current content. Thumbs up.

I also like the ideas that other Kiwis have mentioned of being able to vote on featuring content and being able to hide the box.

 

[Kromer Merchant]

Is there a way to make it look as tidy as the happenings tab? It's quite cluttered atm, the way the happenings are presented as one paraphrased sentence and also curated is really good.

 

[Furret]

This is different, therefore I do not like it and will say it is bad without considering what it actually does or changes for the forum.

 

[Jaded Optimist]

I like that when posts are featured, the post itself gets marked as "feaured" with the date.

 

[Near]

So how do you "nominate" things to be featured right now? Or is that still WIP

 

[Null]

So how do you "nominate" things to be featured right now? Or is that still WIP

post in the happenings thread. mods can feature it but I've asked them to not do any featuring until I get a sense of what mods want to feature.

 

[Crunchy Oats]

I think this is a good idea. I was thrown off for a moment, but then realized I liked the featured section.

 

[Hamplanet Fitness]

I like it, much cleaner than the old Happenings list

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

Ideally.

Aw. I'm going to miss the happenings, then.

 

[Mr. Manchester]

On one hand I think a dropdown might be useful to clean it up, but I there's something to be said for a featured section that is out in the open.

 

[Chris_Stuckmann]

I like the idea, but it looks really ugly. Could you make it look more like the old happenings text box?

 

[Gar For Archer]

IMHO:
It either needs more "bling" to it to make it a truly featured content. Like thumbnails that can be pulled from threads. My experience is - I haven't noticed it at all. Of course I'm autistic and such but her ya go, pal.
Or some vertical space reduction with animated scrolling. To reduce space used and make it look more "modest" yet informative.

Seconded on the auto scrolling/auto advancing. As it is now it makes the front page hard to use on mobile.

 

[Pinball 2000]

I like this idea, because it means featured threads/posts can be put up without having to tag Null and waiting for him to manually feature them himself.

The only real complaint I have with the current version of it is that it seems to take up a lot of space on the mainpage, especially for mobile users and/or people on low-resolution screens. Maybe it might be worth making it a smaller (but scrollable) box? That would take up less space, and it could easily fit the last 20 or so featured posts.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

It's not that I hate it, but I think it's pretty bland looking. Could use a bit of sprucing up so it doesn't look like complete ass.

 

[skjora]

Could you put the timestamps one tab to the right? I think this would increase readability. Here's a mockup:

 

[HarblMcDavid]

It being a bit big is my main complaint, other than that I like it.

A remembered user setting to collapse the element would fix that complaint, but I don't know if the dev time would be worth it as the marginal benefit of not scrolling a few extra lines down to get to the forums proper seems pretty low.