Re: Old SMF stuffz............
Reply #4 –
Who's online is useful sometimes. Birthdays (social stuffz) and events (obvious, when they happen) are good to have, IMO. Recent posts can be handy too. The latest member link can be good, either for welcoming newbies or for thumping obvious spammers.
Stats? People tend to look at them occasionally, but probably wouldn't miss them much.
Re: Old SMF stuffz............
Reply #7 –
Oh, by the way, there's something I've been meaning to mention re templates. As an example, take the way Messagendex.template.php has been split up. It used to be the markup for the child boards was up top, with the markup for the topics listing being further down. Now it's the other way around.
This is illogical and confusing, IMO, and does nothing to make the template more comprehensible or functional. In general, people find templates most comprehensible when the order of the markup in the template mirrors the order of the markup as echoed to the browser. If you guys really want to make theming easer for beginner to intermediate coders, taking templates apart into little pieces and shuffling them around is not, in my considered opinion, really the way to do it.
If there are sound coding reasons for splitting things into a separate function, that's fine, but consider how the functions are arranged. The assumption behind the new arrangement of the MessageIndex.template.php must have been that hey, it's a list of topics in that board and the child boards are incidental content that doesn't really count. That's not the case. The child boards index is an integral and valuable part of that template.
Re: Old SMF stuffz............
Reply #11 –
Agreed. No point in showing all the fluff IMO.
Re: Old SMF stuffz............
Reply #12 –
More fluff: the post count bars on the memberlist. I think we should drop those too, and just have the number. With the option to display custom fields on the memberlist, the table can easily get very crowded. We should strip out anything that's not really useful, IMO.
Re: Old SMF stuffz............
Reply #13 –
I don't remember if this is still that way or something changed.
To check.