New: Featured Threads

[Shaun]

Hello everyone,

I've installed a new add-on that allows us to feature threads on the main forum pages - they appear at the top of the page and also all together on the Featured Threads page (see the new navigation button).

Featured threads are intended to promote the best of what our community has to offer; fun, interesting, informative threads, and lively debates that you can drop into quickly if you've only got a few minutes to spare, or dig into if you've read everything in What's New!

Oh, and if one of your threads gets featured you'll get an alert to let you know - so keep those new threads coming.

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[ColinJ]

One thing I have just thought of, Shaun ...

Since the whole point of the feature is to display a prominent snippet of the first post in a thread, could you please make sure that you never feature any post that includes a spoiler in that snippet!

 

[Shaun]

That shouldn't be an issue when XF 1.3 is released (due soon) - it comes with a new Spoiler BB tag.

 

[ColinJ]

Knowing some people, it would say "If you don't want to know why Mark Cavendish was smiling after the stage 1 finish in Harrogate, don't click this spoiler button"!

 

[classic33]

Knowing some people, it would say "If you don't want to know why Mark Cavendish was smiling after the stage 1 finish in Harrogate, don't click this spoiler button"!

That a prediction?

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Can it be turned off?

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

How is it determined what is a fun, interesting, informative threads, and lively debate?

Are any sections of the forum excluded from this as I'm pretty certain if some of the posts in the cafe and debates would get new forum visitors running for the hills.

 

[ScotiaLass]

I would like the function to turn it off

 

[coffeejo]

But it doesn't changed how threads look or function. Or am I missing something?

 

[ScotiaLass]

But it doesn't changed how threads look or function. Or am I missing something?

It just irritates me....and I'm notoriously bad with change!

 

[coffeejo]

You should have been here we moved to the XenForo forum software

 

[ScotiaLass]

You should have been here we moved to the XenForo forum software

LOL
It takes time but I usually get used to the change, if I don't and can't work with it then...
Put it this way, when Windows 8 was launched I was given a brand new laptop...I hated it and returned it and put the money towards a MacBook pro.
Our desktop is a Mac too now, and I used them at college for 3 years before I took the plunge!

 

[coffeejo]

 

[Shaun]

The mod team will select and feature threads they feel will be of interest, but members can suggest using the report button.

It cannot be turned off as at the moment, but I've spoken to the developer about an option to disable/enable it per style and he's going to look into it.

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[ColinJ]

That a prediction?

He is basing his season around that stage, so hopefully! His mum comes from Harrogate so it is like his second home, and a win would give him his first yellow jersey which he would be wearing for the second Yorkshire stage, so imagine the roar he would hear from the crowd all day!