Recent changes: better or worse?
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I cleared out some of the fields from the recent changes page. It had a little too much information for quick glances.
I've also replaced the orginal author's name with the name of the most recent contributor.
Are there any fields people miss having?
What is the preference for date fortmat-- time since edit, or time/date stamp? Admin maj
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By admin on 2006-10-18 08:10
reen
most recent contributor
was a badly missed thing... great!
evan
I like it
I think it looks pretty good. I liked seeing how active a discussion had been since I last read it, though. ("3 new"). Nice having the most recent editor's name, too.
admin
Agreed
I put that back in, though I think we'll need to work on the table layout with that many columns.
reen
perhaps a bit redundant?
[Edited by] and [Comments] are perhaps be a bit doubling? Wouldn't [Last comment by] be enough?
reen
or (because you made a change already)
[Last edited by] and [# Replies]
admin
longer table headings...
... will need some styling in the table to fit well. But I'll try and remember to change them once we get the font to a reasonable size...
reen
New layout..
Bit in doubt.... I'm not sure having seen in an earlier layout/format [Last edit: time stamp / by last editor]? If so, you could perhaps combine {time stamp} and {edited by} in the actual [Last edit] column, and get rid of the separate [Edited by] column.... which would result in saving space ?? Sorry if it was never published as described (from memory) :-(
maj
I look into it.
It was always seperate columns for each field, but I'll see what I can do. The columns are generated by a drupal module, but I'll see how much hacking is required to customize the display more.
Thanks
reen
it came to mind again... :-)
it's the http://crossroads.world66.com/forum [Last post] format/layout, where the combination [x hours xx min ago by username] is shown. I mean, could this also do the trick in Recent Changes [Last Edit]?
maj
I see what you mean
I will try and duplicate this format for recent changes.
Thanks
Ravikiran
My recent posts...
is not working. It is just showing Recent Changes again. Ravikiran
admin
noted
I'm looking into that...
Thanks
Admin Maj
admin
Fixed...
It's not perfect, but it's working now...
More feedback on fields/format welcome...
Admin maj
reen
Updates invisible
Could we have some indication on page 1 of updated stuff on pages 2 --> last ? Personally, I think that could/would/might be handy in case you're focused on _not_ to miss certain details ;-)
admin
Not sure if I follow...
OK, I see what you're talking about. It's not clear when something is tagged with "updated" versus when something is bumped up the list (since it's sorted by most recent 'edit').
Need to clarify what the system considers an 'edit' (ie a new comment or a change to the orginal post). I will follow up.
Thanks Admin maj
reen
Not sure if I follow... ;-)
OK, I see what you're talking about...;-) I think my question was a more simple one (sorry if I made myself misunderstood). Example: actually I can see two [updated] postings on page 2, two [updated] on page 3, one [new] on page 4 and four [new] on page 5. My question was/is: can we have an indication on page 1 of all those red coloured changes because I don't see users leafing through all those pages from the Recent Changes page number 1 every time (at least I didn't so far ;-).
admin
two answers
The short answer is: yes, that sounds like a great feature. I'll add it to the todo!
~Admin maj
reen
I've seen it differently...
One of the previous test layouts showed categories like [blog entry] [feed] etc... Personally, I liked that very much.. am not that much interested in posted personal blog things.... at least would like to be able to SELECT my readings ;-)
admin
Sounds good.
OK, let me see how that looks with that back it. As I said above, we're going to hold off having too many fields until we rework the design of the tables, so you may not see the change on the live site for a little while. Let me know if you really need it. (you can also just look at the forum tracker if that's all your interested in ;-).
Thanks, Maj
reen
...thought it would be nice to have it
ehh... don't really _need_ it ... thought it would be nice to have it, though
reen
all the same? reduce? combine?
please allow for your design rework ;-)
Actually, [recent changes] in the main menu brings up http://crossroads.world66.com/tracker/all while http://crossroads.world66.com/tracker shows the [recent posts] page containing the same data as the ../all page but without the tabs. (or is this simply a "hidden" [recent changes] layout experiment?.. could be ;-)
Anyway, I would prefer having the [recent post] layout for the [recent changes] page.
Two more observations:
1) data in the ../tracker/ [type] section could perhaps be a bit more straightened: just [forum], [blog], [image] and [feed] should be enough? 2) [Author] and [Last Post] could perhaps be combined [Last post by x] (suggestion already posted earlier, just a reminder now).
reen
Mark (all) read
I think we might want to have a [Mark (all) read] option on the Recent changes All and Blogs pages.
As the number of daily postings will certainly grow in (near) future, it's not very likely that visitors will select every single input for reading. Even now already, I would like to skip certain inputs. Currently, one is forced to open>close the posting without even casting a quick glance at it's content to get rid of the [new] indicator.... waste of time.
maj
good feature...
... it's been added to the list!
Note that there will (soon!) be ways to 'subscribe' to your favorite content by user, tag, etc so that you can check your "personal" recent changes and skip over the rest.
Thanks, maj
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