Because it's not visible really is it?
Has the BBC ever delivered transfer news (or any other news for that matter) through non-reply posts on something like the 606 forums? If not, why not? Everything you see on the BBC website is basically a small blog that then gets ordered. There is a very simple reason why they do not do what they do through a medium of a forum, however they can attach a forum to the blog posts if they so wish.
But I don't want to read my news that way. I want a simple, quick to read summary of what all the main press have to say without wading through comments from transfer muppets. If I wanted that there are hundreds of threads in the transfer forum for that very thing.
I come to the caf a number of times per day so why would I want to go elsewhere for concise news about united transfers if I don't have to?
And a blog post would give you exactly that. I'll do a mock up!
I don't necessarily view the opinions of the majority of caftards with any great regard. It's sort of like asking the nutters in a mental institution if they want to run it themselves.
I only ever post from my phone, so that's not practical for me. I'm sure others may have other reasons.
You are dead right but until the Caf is better integrated with/for blogs I think this is an OK solution. And a mobile Caf site that is better blog integrated would be even better.
Alternatively - and more accurately - it's like asking customers of any business how the business can best meet their needs.
Yet the customers are all nutters! Hello Mr Lecter, we've decided that everyone wearing white straitjackets is a little bland, what would you like to replace them?
A Killsuit 5000, please. And that's 'Doctor' Lecter to you, kid.
Admins can still post in locked threads, I think Hectic offered his best explanation in your thread then locked it so it could be answered by the admin who closed the original thread without their being a 10 page debate beforehand.
Eh?
The point is, you've asked a question that can only be answered by a moderator or admin, it serves no purpose to have it open to everyone. I think it's a fair question you've asked, I believe this is the best way about getting your answer. My reply is immaterial, it's a general take on what might have happened reading the edits, however, it's primary function is to let you know we've seen it, taken notice and that it will be addressed as soon as possible. If I had just locked it, you would rightly be thinking, what the feck. I thought I had explained myself a bit clearer, but probably not, my mistake.
I'm not questioning the idea, it's a good one; I'm questioning and disappointed by your lack of vision. You should be asking for something like this.....
Unlike our current front page right, which is totally unique?
In an ideal world, the user would be able to select what categories they wanted to view out of three classes, large, medium, small, and also be able to move and resize them.
That looks good, but also looks high maintenance.I'm not questioning the idea, it's a good one; I'm questioning and disappointed by your lack of vision. You should be asking for something like this.....
It actually shouldn't be that complicated to do, the problem being people to provide the content.
But is shouldn't be high maintenance, blog posts and blog edits would simply update the content and order of it. The blog feature is already there, but on the front page it's shoved into a little box in the top right with the main body of the page showing recent forum posts. I can see recent forum posts by clicking on New Posts in the forum thanks a lot! I never use the CAF homepage, it's useless to me.
It actually brings me around to something I didn't put in your suggestions thread. Why not have an option in the UserCP to have context sensitive New Posts searches or not, or at the very least a drop down menu if you hover over it for too long, or search in context link next to it. So, for example if I was viewing the United Forum and clicked "New Posts", it would give me results from that forum only. If I was in "General Discussion" looking at the list of forums in there and clicked "New Posts", it would give me results from those forums only. If I'm on the main forums page and I do the same it works as it does now.
1) It's just that I have a 1080p monitor, that is the width of my screen and the width of the CAF when my browser is full screen. Of course, you wouldn't do it that way at fixed size, but then look at the front page and resize the width of your window, the list of threads resizes. Or you go say the BBC route and make the thing fixed. It's just a mock-up, an idea of what could be done.
