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New Latest Post Page
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Posted: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 03:13 PM UTC
Our ever busy Staff Jim has been working on a new Latest Post page with some interesting improvements. To read more about it check here:

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/198521&page=1

to preview what it will look like check this out:

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=SquawkBox&file=lp

Cool, huh?
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Posted: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 08:59 PM UTC
Looks great! I especially like the fact that you can easily see which topics you've contributed to before.

Cheers!
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Posted: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 10:54 PM UTC
Outstanding job there a lot easier on the old eyes
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 05:09 AM UTC
I will hopefully have this fully operational by the weekend. It's mostly working as of this hour, but I still want to add some filters and more options for saving favorite sites and forums.

Cheers,
Jim
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 05:09 AM UTC
Hi Jim,

I like it.

Al
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 07:15 AM UTC
superb. this is very clear, very easily found old messages, bravo. steph
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 10:53 AM UTC
Overall I like the change. It sure will take some getting used to.
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 10:54 AM UTC
Looks great, thanks for the work.
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 11:05 AM UTC
I rolled this out since I got the favorite forums bit finished today. I still want to add a favorite site option and some other one-time filters like...

- your posts/topics you've posted in
- topics you are following
- content posts only
- exclude content posts
- blogs

Following posts will become the new means to subscribe to a topic. Users will get some kind of in-site notification of new posts to topics or content you are following as well as a n option to get a daily email with a summary of new posts/content. I may still offer instant notification as well for new posts in topics.

Cheers,
Jim
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 11:18 AM UTC
I guess I'm in the minority, that's okay I'm used to it, but I find it very distracting and confusing. I guess I'll be visiting here a lot less often
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 11:20 AM UTC
i thought my Intrawebs was messed up.
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 11:48 AM UTC
Just out of curiousity, how do you set your Favorite Forums?
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 12:09 PM UTC

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Just out of curiousity, how do you set your Favorite Forums?


There will be some other easier ways to do this down the road, but for now if you go to the main forum page, you should see a favorite forum button on the upper right (opposite the forum name).

Jim
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 12:18 PM UTC

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I guess I'm in the minority, that's okay I'm used to it, but I find it very distracting and confusing. I guess I'll be visiting here a lot less often


Well... if you like it that much I could always keep it accessible for those who have a hard time with change. I do have to chuckle a bit though since I had people say pretty much the same thing when I made the old page.

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=SquawkBox&file=latestposts_old

Thanks for the honest feedback.

Jim
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 12:52 PM UTC
Is it just me, or are there FAR fewer post displayed on the first page? Though the scroll to autoload is nice.
I liked very much being able to look back over the past days postings in a page or two.


Mike
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 12:59 PM UTC
Mike,
This is the trade-off between the older cached page (which only refreshed every 10 minutes) and this fully dynamic version which can show you up to the second what is updated. A cached page also presented problems with people seeing user-specific info (like what posts you have posted in, etc).

Jim
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 01:10 PM UTC

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Just out of curiousity, how do you set your Favorite Forums?


There will be some other easier ways to do this down the road, but for now if you go to the main forum page, you should see a favorite forum button on the upper right (opposite the forum name).

Jim


Oh yeah that button, it is not working in Chrome. I notice is is showing as button in Chome, but has a fancy graphic in IE.

Kevin


Edit: Neither is the "Follow Topic" button.

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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 01:15 PM UTC
Very nicely done, Jim. I especially like the autoload option.

Kudos to you!
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 01:16 PM UTC
Probably just a cached CSS file in Chrome. I develop in Chrome so it should work if all pistons are firing.

There may be a delay too as sometimes CSS is late loading so everything has to completely load, etc.

Jim
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 01:20 PM UTC

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Probably just a cached CSS file in Chrome. I develop in Chrome so it should work if all pistons are firing.

There may be a delay too as sometimes CSS is late loading so everything has to completely load, etc.

Jim


Good call Jim. Thanks, really starting to like the new look and functionality.

Kevin
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 02:15 PM UTC
Very nice Many thanks to you Jim for all the time and effort you put into this site, making it the best modelling site around. Once again well done Jim.

cheers
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Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 07:28 PM UTC
I'm usually hard to take new stuff around here, but I have to admit I like the new "latest posts" page. I just wish the list of topics was a bit longer.

One more thing, is it possible to have the "/news", "/reviews", etc bars to differenciate the content, instead of the star denoting all the content?

Mario
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Posted: Friday, October 19, 2012 - 12:04 AM UTC
I like it, a bit more modern than the old one.
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Posted: Friday, October 19, 2012 - 12:11 AM UTC
Looks good
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Posted: Friday, October 19, 2012 - 12:35 AM UTC
It looks better than it used to be! Now it's far more easy to read and it has a better design

Great job guys, thanks a million for our efforts
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