Would it be possible to somehow distinguish pieces that are just a title from those that contain body text? Saves clicking on non-existant stuff.
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one liners vs longer pieces
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Posted 3 years ago #
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Sauce, just you and me logged it at the moment. Headlines could be signified by adding a (H) after the hesding. Messy but a could become accepted NB practive in time.
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Maybe we could put something in the tags? 'more soon' for one-liners, 'full article' or something more imaginative, for, er, full articles.
Posted 3 years ago # -
I second that emotion - esp as when one is panning for NiBs, it's much slower if you have to open every post to see what length it is. Is there a way to see all the posts, not just the heading?
Posted 3 years ago # -
I thought tags initially - but it means everybody using them. I don't want to regulate how tags are used, but if we stuck to the more soon tags it'd be great. That way there will be the navigation on the left hand side as well as the main headers.
The other option is I can create 'news in brief' sub categories in the forum, and 'more soons'. What do you think?
Also check out latest views, which is right at the bottom of the front page, it has some useful navigation things. Have you spotted in your own profile as well you can see things you've contributed to?
There is a way to see everything in one go - the RSS feed. The reason why modern chat rooms tend not to work in this way is because of the all important page impressions, as it's beneficial to have people clicking around the site more. But the RSS feeds, if tags were used everywhere, bookmarkable, so you can add this link to your RSS reader (it won't work if you just click on it, you need to have something like google reader - set up Then you add this link into it. More soon RSS url ) The RSS feeds for this topic, for this forum, for this user are very advanced on NB, so that might be helpful as well.
Posted 3 years ago # -
It's not so easy to score anymore either...have the dealers been moved on?
Posted 3 years ago # -
It's not so easy to score anymore either...have the dealers been moved on?
You have to log in first. Then a row of 5 stars will appear at the top left corner of the page of whatever article you're reading. The far lft-hand star = 1 = poor, moving along the right to the 5th star = very funny. If you hover your cursor over each star it should tell you what each of them means, I think.
Edit: The ratings are 'Poor' - 'Works' - 'Good' - 'Great' - 'Fantastic!'
Posted 3 years ago # -
Oh you're so good NAL.
Now it's nice and clear.Posted 3 years ago # -
Now that the two rooms display the title, author and first few lines of each submission, it's really easy to spot the one-liners without extra clicking. Good work! Can't really see any need now for a 'more soon' sub-cat.
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