Featured Content System

[Regginmcaids]

I like the whole the but the "featured on X date" text on posts is kind of distracting to the original post. maybe mark the post with the shield showing it was featured and clicking on it will unhide the text and date.

 

[A Cat in a Minefield]

Maybe it could look cleaner if the date and time of the posting and featuring would be removed.
Edit: But I like it so far.

 

[0 0]

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Trying this now. If anyone wants to mock up something tidier let me know.

Would it be possible to have a "dismiss" option for each individual highlight? That would make it easier to notice new highlights if the list becomes more bloated. Preferably either on the left or orderly on the right so it's easy to dismiss multiple highlights at once, or perhaps with a unique or unobtrusive icon so it melds better?

 

[Abe Vigoda]

Could you put the timestamps one tab to the right? I think this would increase readability. Here's a mockup:
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I want to second this suggestion. Super easy change that requires no extra functionality but solves my only issue, the fact that it looks like a big block of text.

If I could make a more ambitious suggestion, maybe commission a set of icons to accompany each row that represent the kind of thread, kind of like the board icons. Make one for the major lolcows/cults and then ones for like gaming, YouTube, etc. just to give an at-a-glance idea of what’s what. That’s probably a simpler idea than grouping them, and you could have whichever mod is adding it to the list choose which one to use.

 

[The Real SVP]

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

I’d rather have a setting to collapse it/have it off. I found the little blurbs funny at the top of the page, I could care less for a solid block of text.

Would it be possible to have a "dismiss" option for each individual highlight? That would make it easier to notice new highlights if the list becomes more bloated. Preferably either on the left or orderly on the right so it's easy to dismiss multiple highlights at once, or perhaps with a unique or unobtrusive icon so it melds better?

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Ideally I would like an option to collapse it until there is a new item, or a "new" or "unread" indicator on the collapsed object.

 

[Null]

I'm not making it collapsible. That defeats the purpose.

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

I love this as I really rely heavily on the feature area to recommend what threads I should check out.

 

[Account]

I think the happenings should be displayed as headline-description. Gigantic monitor-spanning hyperlinks are hard to read because the site uses a dark color for them. So the Kero link could just be "Kero Returns" with the description giving the context currently in the hyperlink.

 

[Maskull]

It'd be nice if they were bulleted with the old subforum icons so we know where the link is taking us.

 

[Fat Bastard]

I think it's great, I like that it's more spaced out vertically, it makes it so I don't have to lean in like DSP to read it. My only criticism is that I think the titles should be in the same font/boldness as the text that says 'Community Happenings' at the top of the page as the titles currently look just like any other thread on the front page, I also would not be against adding the colored border and the kiwi bird icon that the 'Community Happenings' box has.

 

[Radical Cadre]

I would like to second tabbing in the timestamps underneath each title line.

Maybe it came up earlier but what about reversing the order? Put newer stuff at the top and older stuff at the bottom.

 

[hot hot leg]

It takes up a lot of space; I can't see the Lolcows board without scrolling down.

 

[GenociderSyo]

It's pretty interesting though it could be helpful if it would go to first unread post if its a thread you have been to already.

 

[MysticSleeper]

Please keep the small kiwi in some way, it's so cute and also it was there for us when we needed it.

EDIT: Thank you supreme leader null!

 

[Tealeaf]

@Null
I doodled a layout proposal based on your concerns in chat

 

[It's HK-47]

Will we still have handpicked features? I'm worried this'll become a way for the A&H part of the site to ree even louder without some actually amusing features to balance it out.

A&H threads almost never got featured to begin with since they tend to stray so far from the purpose of the site, and I can promise that's a trend that's going to continue unless we get another situation like Drain Todger's Wuhan thread. Most of what happens in the off-topic section of the board is rarely worth bringing to the fore unless it derails so badly that it becomes on-topic.

 

[Null]

A&N should never get featured, period. Happenings can but it needs to either be directly site related, the US shitting itself again, or impacting the site somehow.

 

[Null]

https://kiwifarms.pa/whats-new/featured

I'm wrestling with how I want to display featured posts. I think something like this with a click to expand thing is the way to go.

Do you guys think something like this would be better, or a threaded view like the forum index?

 

[Dark Edea]

https://kiwifarms.pa/whats-new/featured

I'm wrestling with how I want to display featured posts. I think something like this with a click to expand thing is the way to go.

Do you guys think something like this would be better, or a threaded view like the forum index?

Your mock up looks nice and compact, which is good. I came here to say that there is too much stuff in the box. It looks like 15 items? A lot of the flavor text could be trimmed to help thin things out.

 

[Null]

Your mock up looks nice and compact, which is good. I came here to say that there is too much stuff in the box. It looks like 15 items? A lot of the flavor text could be trimmed to help thin things out.

I'm going to paginate the featured content page - that's going to be the way to look back at old features. Front page features are capped by date.