Featured Content System

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I don't know if this is actually doable since I know Jack shit about coding, but would there be a way to move stuff to a scrolling box either at the top or bottom after it's been featured X amount of days? Right now, my only issue is that there are so many threads all at once, and some of them have been there for a while.
 
We've gotta have something to include articles. Like when Joe Rogan moved to spotify. That was big, if something with Joe Rogan happens again then there's no way it'd appear on the front page because Joe Rogan is only in articles and happenings. Joe Rogan talks about aliens with his buddies all the time and I'm not sure that CIA agent is being entirely truthful. Stuff like this needs to have the ability to not go unnoticed
 
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Let me know what you think about the featured content system. It uses moderator permissions so I'm going to make it so mods can feature posts too.

To-Do:
1. Featured content tab with all historical features.
2. Tidy up the block so there's more immediately obvious emphasis on the message.
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It's a bit messy at first, but I'm now used to it.
 
Would it be possible to have the most recently featured threads appear at the top of the list, effectively reversing the order they are listed in at the moment?
 
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I like it, but can there be a time limit on the period it's listed? 3-4 days maybe? It's up to 17 things listed now and nothing gets bumped off; the list just gets longer. Monday feels like a year ago.
 
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I wish there was an option to hide it, especially when there's a lot of stuff. It takes up a lot of space on the screen if you're on mobile.
 
Hiding it defeats the fucking purpose. Wait a bit and I'll have something set up so the items are limited.
 
I agree with the guy that suggested being able to hide individual items. It'll still fulfil its purpose of notifying users of new featured content but allows users to remove things they've already read or aren't interested in to remove what they consider to be clutter.
 
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Items now display descending by feature date. I've also updated the timestamps of the first features to be their post date so that the oldest content is now off the front page.
 
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Although I'll miss the null featured content, I totally understand why this would be the better choice going forward. I guess my suggestion would be to make it more like the old featured where the number isn't set, bur rather depends on the amount of notable things happening. I used it as "this lol cow you don't follow is doing something remarkable, go check it out." Whereas it seems like this is only going to be the top 7 posts of the moment, so it could just be a boring week. I agree that I prefer the visuals of the old featured as well, but i think many people has a measure of "It's different. I don't like it," so I'm willing to see if it grows on me.

Edit: the revised visuals are already much better. Looks more like news headlines rather than highlighted threads. Well done!
 
While I'll miss Null's hand picked stuff, I'm not totally against the new layout, some of the current featured posts I kind of think aren't really noteworthy and don't warrant being there, but I bet that's just gonna take time to adjust to
 
I dont really mind it myself. Personally, I'd want the featured box to be divided between lolcow content from community stuff (merch sales, damage reports for downtime, etc.), if we ever had both on the featured stack, but that's me.
 
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