Front Page Link Suggestion

[Farmertan]

How about a list of recent or most active posts on the front page, similar to the most read stories section?

Would be fun for everyone.

Martin

[Sid]

Sounds like a good idea. I'll pass it by Michael - the editor and resident code monkey. We may have to wait for the forums to get a little busier before it works out though.

[Michael]

He knows the code monkey. He lives down the street from me....

Anyway, I plan on doing some cool integration stuff. That would be one of those types of things.

[Farmertan]

Code Monkey...I think I'll use that.

I figured since you're not riding, you'd have nothing more important going on than to fully integrate the forums with the front page.

Get Crackin!

[Michael]

This feature is basically coded, I just have to determine where to put the table with the list of active threads.

Ideas?

I could have the front page alternate between the current Top 10 Stories list and the Forums List, but that strikes me as a bit strange. You would have to leave it up to chance to get the info you might actually want.

So the question is, what to do with the data?

http://www.mobileburn.com/forums.jsp

[Sid]

Why would you make it alternate? What you have already made is fine. Just put it on the front page next to the most read stories.

[Michael]

Next to it? Wouldn't fit.

Under it? Too damn long.

I don't want the page to be 30 feet long (10 meters, roughly for you metric types). For one, it just makes the page a bigger download when it is already quite large, and secondly....it would never get sen or read down there.

[jalu]

I suggest putting it to the right of the "most read stories" table, call it something like "recent forums posts" and put ten or something there.

Sounds about right...

[fabarati]

if you had seen the date, or the webpage, you would have understood that this doesn't apply any more. it's almost a year ago the last post before you replied

[jalu]

...duh :rolleyes:

Y'think? Maybe?

No kidding...