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23-08-2010 10:34am#1Only 4% of members subscribe to forums. We consider it to be an easier way to navigate the site and keep tabs on whatever forums you might have an interest in. With that in mind, we've decided to make it easier to do this.
Today, we're introducing a Follow Forum and Follow Thread button onto forum and thread pages respectively. You can see the screen shot below for how they'll look and where they'll appear on the page. To go along with this, we've made a change to the front page of the site; we've removed the Drop Down list for "Latest Forum Posts in" just above the thread listing with 3 tabs (Latest Posts | My Forums | My Threads) and an expanding list beside it. Again, see the screen shot below for how this will look.
Front Page
Follow Forum
Follow Threads
My Forums
My Threads
We're also replacing the word "subscribe" with "follow" as there tended to be confusion about wanting to keep track of a forum or subscribing to the site. You'll see we've changed any references to this across the site (but if you spot one still saying Subscribe, please let us know).
These buttons will also appear to people who aren't signed in and clicking on them will present you with a Login option as well as a Sign Up option if you're not a member. Hopefully it might convince a few lurkers to bite the bullet and join us.
My Forums (not logged in)
My Threads (not logged in)
Let us know how you get on with it and if you have any comments or find any problems, please post them below.
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It's not too bad.. though I do think the 3 tabbed panels on the front page are a bit jarring!
Also small cosmetic changes to make it a bit more symmetrical - e.g the search should be aligned with something, and not just floating. See below:
Currently:
Better?
Also should the white space to the right of the panels be better utilized? Link to Control Panels / PM's etc?0 -
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All those geeks in Boards HQ and your still using IE :facepalm:
Looks great though, i actually really like it
I mostly use Firefox (which has gotten steadily worse and worse over the last few months
) and Chrome; the IE is for that test account I have so I can copy & paste stuff easily 
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Great little change, it's very handy
However there are a few little cosmetic issues like basquille pointed out. What makes the tabs so jarring is the fact they have the biggest text size on the frontpage. They're bigger than the search button over on the right, bigger than the menu along the bottom of the infobar (with links to adverts.ie, social groups etc). It'd be better if it could be brought in line with something, with a corresponding reduction in padding.
The search module should be brought in line too.
Oh and maybe instead of using this gradient for the follow buttons you might consider using either this gradient or jus the background colour #738FBF which would make it the same as the surrounding elements (i.e. the thread tools/menu control items). Also, seeing as everything on the RHS of the page is squared, and not rounded, the slight rounding on the buttons could be removed.0 -
Bob_Harris wrote: »Unfollow is not a word.
Seems like a twitterization of boards. I don't like.
Can you come up with a suitable antonym? I can't - renounce forum just doesn't seem appropriate
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TouchingVirus wrote: »Can you come up with a suitable antonym? I can't - renounce forum just doesn't seem appropriate
Subscribe and Unsubscribe.0 -
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Bob_Harris wrote: »Subscribe and Unsubscribe.
Fairly sure the reason behind the change to follow from subscribe was outlined in the first post.Captain Darling wrote: »The Thunderdome and some private forums are showing up on the front page 'latest post' thing.
Might be a good idea to restrict them, to stop new people clicking into the 'Dome and all the crap that is spouted in there.
If you have access to the dome then it will appear on your latest posts. Now if it's happening when you're logged out that's a different story 0 -
TouchingVirus wrote: »Fairly sure the reason behind the change to follow from subscribe was outlined in the first post.
If you have access to the dome then it will appear on your latest posts. Now if it's happening when you're logged out that's a different story
Aye, i wonder is it because i'm subscribed to it, that might be the reason it's showing up. It didnt previously however...0 -
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Captain Darling wrote: »Aye, i wonder is it because i'm subscribed to it, that might be the reason it's showing up. It didnt previously however...
Wonder no more!Latest Posts now shows stuff from every forum you have access to; restoring how it used to work before I had to break it to stop the site from grinding to a halt in 20080 -
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Captain Darling wrote: »Aye, i wonder is it because i'm subscribed to it, that might be the reason it's showing up. It didnt previously however... I know, but if you read the post by Ross on page one you'd have read the following:Latest Posts now shows stuff from every forum you have access to; restoring how it used to work before I had to break it to stop the site from grinding to a halt in 2008
*Edit: Beaten to it, please kill me :P*0 -
I mostly use Firefox (which has gotten steadily worse and worse over the last few months) and Chrome; the IE is for that test account I have so I can copy & paste stuff easily
This is what I thought of when I read that comment...
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