XF 2.2 Can I get your opinion on a few things

[bennylava]

It's best if I just number these. I would like your opinion on a few things, and I also have a technical question:

1. What are your thoughts on the default email frequency? Even just visiting a few threads and making a few replies, a user might get 8 (or more) emails from your forum in 1 week. I turn these off immediately because it begins to border on spam. How do you have it set up for your users? I don't like it when I sign up for some new site and I see 6 new emails from them in two days.

2. Is it feasible to create a store which functions well on my forum? I want it to be a tab on the main "ribbon" that sits on top of the main forum page. A tab which simply says “Store”. It would be real nice if I didn’t have to send users away to some other website. Is this easy enough for a good developer?

3. How do you Italicize thread titles? I need a way to let users know that a thread is a sticky thread.

4. Is there a way to make embedded gifs or mp4's play in a loop after the user clicks the play button? So you click play once, and when its over, it will just begin playing again from the beginning until you hit the pause button. Bad idea?

5. To some users it can look like a ghost town if they click "new posts" or "new media" and there's nothing to show them. Is there any way to mitigate this? Maybe it could be changed so that it shows them the most recent posts, instead of giving them a blank screen that says "Nothing new to display":

 

[Digital Doctor]

create a store

Here are two options.

[XFA] RM Marketplace/Shop - XF2

Jan 11, 2018

Transforms your RM into an outstanding marketplace or shop !

• XFA
• digital marketplace physical resources sale sell service shop users
• Add-ons [2.x]

[DBTech] DragonByte Shop

Nov 29, 2017

Members can buy permissions, features & more on your forum with points.

• DragonByte Tech
• Add-ons [2.x]

 

[Digital Doctor]

5. To some users it can look like a ghost town if they click "new posts" or "new media" and there's nothing to show them. Is there any way to mitigate this? Maybe it could be changed so that it shows them the most recent posts, instead of giving them a blank screen that says "Nothing new to display":

I made this suggestion in and around the year 2010.

 

[bennylava]

I made this suggestion in and around the year 2010.

Thank you for the replies!

But they neglected to put screenshots of how their stores actually look. Have you ever seen either of those implemented?

 

[Digital Doctor]

Thank you for the replies!

But they neglected to put screenshots of how their stores actually look. Have you ever seen either of those implemented?

Just go to their websites and their sites use their own sales systems

 

[frm]

3. How do you Italicize thread titles? I need a way to let users know that a thread is a sticky thread.

Threads show a "sticky" pin icon for those that are sticky and are placed above all other threads in the node.



Though, I like to add some noticeable separation between sticky threads on boards so that they're more noticeable.

/* Border between sticky/normal threads */
.structItemContainer-group--sticky {
    border-bottom: 7px solid;
    color: xf-diminish(@xf-borderColor, 50%);
    font-style: italic;
}

This generally works on most styles, but it does not for what I'm using on ForumDiscovery. So, for demonstration purposes, I changed the color to #9da6b8.



If you want to make them stand out even more by making them appear in italics, it's more or less the same CSS code above by adding font-style: italic; to it, and maybe removing border-bottom if you do not like the bar separating the two groups of sticky/unsticky threads.

However, this will also make the date posted in italics too, which I presume you don't want to do and only make the title appear in italics. If that's the case, you'll need to use this:

/* Border between sticky/normal threads AND make italic */
.structItemContainer-group--sticky {
    border-bottom: 7px solid;
    color: #9da6b8;
    .structItem-title {
        font-style: italic;
    }
}

To get the final appearance of:

 

[bennylava]

Just go to their websites and their sites use their own sales systems

Maybe I'm looking at the wrong thing, but their sales system just seems to be a checkout for that single item. The addon itself.

I was hoping to see a forum like you or I might have, with a store selling T-shirts or hats or something. Are you aware of a forum that has a good sales system implemented?

 

[bennylava]

Threads show a "sticky" pin icon for those that are sticky and are placed above all other threads in the node.

View attachment 312335

Though, I like to add some noticeable separation between sticky threads on boards so that they're more noticeable.

/* Border between sticky/normal threads */
.structItemContainer-group--sticky {
    border-bottom: 7px solid;
    color: xf-diminish(@xf-borderColor, 50%);
    font-style: italic;
}

This generally works on most styles, but it does not for what I'm using on ForumDiscovery. So, for demonstration purposes, I changed the color to #9da6b8.

View attachment 312336

If you want to make them stand out even more by making them appear in italics, it's more or less the same CSS code above by adding font-style: italic; to it, and maybe removing border-bottom if you do not like the bar separating the two groups of sticky/unsticky threads.

However, this will also make the date posted in italics too, which I presume you don't want to do and only make the title appear in italics. If that's the case, you'll need to use this:

/* Border between sticky/normal threads AND make italic */
.structItemContainer-group--sticky {
    border-bottom: 7px solid;
    color: #9da6b8;
    .structItem-title {
        font-style: italic;
    }
}

To get the final appearance of:

View attachment 312337

Thank you for the great reply! I would have never noticed that little sticky "pin" on my own. Do you know if there is a way to make it appear larger? Or perhaps to fill it in with color? So that it stands out more to the user. Thank you