Re: Rethinking the "board index"
Reply #15 –
I'm all for exchange of opinions.
And I'm trying to see what it can be done.
But then we need to be clear about the expectations.
So, obvious question: what is a "messenger" for you?
And with that I mean: what are the features that you see forums lacking and what are the features that you would see removed from forums?
Re: Rethinking the "board index"
Reply #20 –
I like the idea of using ajax where possible/reasonable. Page refreshes are rather disruptive. Sure, the server takes more frequent requests. Wouldn't that be at least partially offset by not having to send all the info redundantly, time and again? Just periodic checks for differential.
Re: Rethinking the "board index"
Reply #24 –
How about board descriptions and stats being hidden/collapsed by default for a cleaner look? Or perhaps make it a tooltip?
Re: Rethinking the "board index"
Reply #27 –
Personally I found the Flarum index sight very confusing, although I did get banned while trying to learn and get aquinted with it. But I got into so much trouble with admins and such because of apparently wrong tags. And then of cause the rest which ended up getting me locked out. But, I just wanted the oldschool way of things, but had to try out Flarum as well. And I thought maybe it was the best forum go for as there was really issues all around in regards of forums. And first and foremost it had to be mobile ready. Well... Got started on it and got banned from the support channel and that closed down that for me putting out the fire for further giving it a chance.
But in any case I never reallly like this new modern ways of things. And that was the reason I guess that I initial wanted FluxBB for a forum - but they never got around making it Mobile ready and drowned it pretty much. FluxBB main programmer went for Flarum, so I thought it might be my best hope even if it was in Beta and who knows which direction it will take.
In any case still sniffing around, and there is nothing really solid as such where I am thinking, this is it. Everything seems to have it drawbacks and benifits. Although down on SMF stable or SMF RC and ElkArta for now of choices which I still am testing. In any case - dunno about making it work like Flarum, I guess it will make it differently from SMF, you already made this a pretty nice application already with upgrades and modernizing it. But personally I'm not the person who would like to see any flarum tagging nonsense way of things - But hey, maybe there is a marked for it.
Dunno. Maybe optionalize it.
Re: Rethinking the "board index"
Reply #28 –
For me boardindex should offer 3 things to be shown at the same time(on desktops, on mobile each could be a tabbed page):
- the boardindex with board names and unread indicators. Other info upon request(if space permits, shown, otherwise tucked away as a popup/dropdown perhaps)
- recent posts, this time just with time indicators(maybe even just human readable times, like "15 hours ago")
- ability to read a preview of the very lastest posts from your unread boards. It should use the already existing "last post" of each board..but maybe not show more than 5-6 of them at the same time.
The idea here is that the index gives you the navigation, the recent posts giving you a log of everything happening- while the third will specifially peak your interest(hopefully).
Just copying the Flarum/Discourse layout would be a miss I feel...better to embrace what Elkarte already is showing. IMHO.