Automatic Content Featuring With Criteria

[KensonPlays]

This is related to the latest HYS, I looked through the thread and it seems multiple people want this. If this is planned, feel free to comment, or close this thread.

XF 2.3 - Featuring content

While the first few 'Have you seen...?' posts for XenForo 2.3 have focused on mostly aesthetic or performance changes, today we are taking the opportunity to talk about one of the first new major pieces of functionality we've been working on. Every release cycle we like to focus on at least one...

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It would certainly be very nice to be able to define criteria (maybe per-node) to automatically Feature and Unfeature a thread or similar with the greatly expanded functionality. Some sample uses:

• Site Announcements - When an admin posts an announcement, automatically feature it for a week (or however long you choose), then unfeature it.
• Per board - If a topic becomes a "hot topic" based on whatever you define (X posts total, X posts in Y time), it could become Featured, either forever, or for a limited time.
  • You could have a hot thread, for example, of 10 posts within an hour or two, it could feature it for a day, a week, or forever.

Just imagine the possibilities of automation with Criteria combined with automatic featuring.

Edit: Please hit the Up arrow on the right to let people know of your interest. Not "like"!

Edit 2: Also check out @Alpha1's similar thread:

Automatic unfeaturing of content

XF2.3 will bring automatic featuring of content. Once it is featured it will be forever unless you manually unfeature it. I would like to suggest a few useful things to avoid a situation where you end up with a mass of featured content forever and that will give members more control over their...

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[Alpha1]

Yes, criteria such as views, recent views, replies, recent replies, reaction scores, author user group, author reaction points, word count, etc would be very useful to only get quality content featured.

We don't want a 5 word thread from a newbie, without replies and loads of negative reactions to be automatically featured.

Automatic featuring should not cause a lot of work or stress for moderators.

 

[Wildcat Media]

I like the idea of restricting featured content creation to specific usergroups or thread prefixes. I'm testing that now with search forums and it works really well. In essence, our own features need to be an article, need to have one of a handful of specific prefixes, and be posted by someone who is in our moderator or contributor secondary usergroups.