Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #105 –
Random question: why do we need the current date/time anyway?
Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #106 –
At the moment it's really just a placeholder. I'd always assumed that people would put icons for their YouTube, Twitter, etc up there.
Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #107 –
No strong feeling.
At a certain point I thought that the menu bar was mostly useless, though now seems a bit better and more useful.
The admin/moderate could stay combined I think.
The only thing I would change in the account part, inverting profile-related and personal messaging (i.e. have account settings, forum profile and look and layout as "primary" dropdown and then "personal messages" with the second level droppy) because "my account" reminds me of the "settings" in general and not about the "personal messages" (that are part of the account, but not the primary part of the account). More semantic than usefulness.
Also I'm not sure the account should go somewhere else, otherwise the menu comes back to be a bit useless...
Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #108 –
But that doesn't fit with the way people actually use it. Profile stuff is 90% set and forget (apart from looking up your posts, or changing your avatar occasionally). PM's is what people use day to day. That makes PM's primary functionality, IMHO.
OTOH, we do have PM notifications and access via Display.template now so bleh n wtf n stuff.
ETA: And I think there was general agreement that we were going back to seperate Admin and Mod buttons, which I'm fine with (it does make some things easier).
Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #109 –
By that logic all the other systems (including that pesky little website Facebook) are all doing it wrong?
Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #112 –
K. Well I'll have a go at whipping something up, then we can kick it around a bit.
Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #115 –
That might hold up if SMF hadn't also been doing it for the previous decade.
Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #116 –
Back in 2003 it was commonplace to show that a site was not 'static' by printing the date. Some would even show the date via js to make it look like it wasn't a pure HTML page... ^^
Re: New menu arrangement: Community - Staff - Personal
Reply #118 –
Well presumably, as long as their server is running, any dates would be relative to the current (which you should know anyway since your pooter has a clock built in).
If we grab the current date/time area for user stuffz that could still leave the date/time for lurkers, if anyone thinks it is important to have that.