CTA Featured Threads & Portal [Paid] 2.17.0

[Martok]

Hmm, I'm not sure on this. I can see the point in highlighting a thread as Featured but not marking one that was previously featured as Expired. Isn't the point
of this add-on to highlight threads that are relevant at this point in time?

This term Expired marked outside a thread like this could also be confusing/misleading to others (that was the opinion of my partner and I can see her point - she suggested that "Formerly Featured" would be better if anything was to be used.)

I think that just having Featured in the thread view makes the Featured Threads stand out more than having an ever increasing number of threads marked with Expired in with them.

 

[BassMan]

I don't like the expired thing either...

 

[Paul B]

Fair enough.

I just thought it might be useful to potentially avoid featuring threads which had previously been featured.

I'll strike it off the list.

 

[Martok]

Fair enough.

I just thought it might be useful to potentially avoid featuring threads which had previously been featured.

I see your point, but could this be done another way? Maybe have "Previously Featured" show up on the overlay when Featuring a thread? That way it's hidden from general view but visible when you go to feature a thread.

 

[Paul B]

I suspect that wouldn't go down too well because it requires a pointless click then to find out the thread was previously featured.

I'll just drop it.
If anyone wants to implement it it's a very simple template edit.

 

[Amaury]

What are everyone's thoughts on this idea?

View attachment 67795

And should it show for merged thread redirects?

According to Mozilla Firefox's spellchecker, unfeature isn't even a word. Undo Feature or Don't Feature, maybe?

 

[Paul B]

It is now.

 

[Kevin]

If anyone wants to implement it it's a very simple template edit.

I like the idea of showing previously featured threads.... but for staff members only. That way if a staff member is browsing for interesting threads to feature they can easily tell if it was previously selected or not before re-featuring it. If, as a staff member, I was poking around for interesting threads and saw the "Expired" label then I would not even bother reading that thread or looking further at it for consideration.

 

[Paul B]

That way if a staff member is browsing for interesting threads to feature they can easily tell if it was previously selected or not before re-featuring it.

That was exactly why I came up with the idea.

 

[Martok]

According to Mozilla Firefox's spellchecker, unfeature isn't even a word. Undo Feature or Don't Feature, maybe?

This is how new words are created!

BTW try googling "unfeature", you'll see it's used elsewhere in a similar way.

 

[Martok]

I like the idea of showing previously featured threads.... but for staff members only. That way if a staff member is browsing for interesting threads to feature they can easily tell if it was previously selected or not before re-featuring it. If, as a staff member, I was poking around for interesting threads and saw the "Expired" label then I would not even bother reading that thread or looking further at it for consideration.

If it could be done for staff only then I'd be happier with this idea. I wouldn't want it showing to other users though.

 

[Paul B]

Well it wouldn't be staff, it would be those with the permission to feature.
Staff wouldn't necessarily have the permission.

I'll just leave it though - people can just edit the template if they want to implement it.

 

[Kevin]

Well it wouldn't be staff, it would be those with the permission to feature.

At least for me, those two groups would be the same.

I'll just leave it though - people can just edit the template if they want to implement it.

When the release is ready you could include it as a turned off template mod for those that really want to turn it on.

 

[Paul B]

You can do it now if you like.
This is the content required for the cta_featuredthreads_thread_list_item template:

Edit: Code removed - I will add it as an update in the form of a guide

I have hard coded the styling and text, and made it available to admins only, so just edit it to suit.

I find it quite useful, so I've implemented it on my own site

 

[The Sandman]

So you create the template and insert the contents? Didn't seem to work in either my Soft Responsive or UI.X based styles.

 

[Paul B]

Just overwrite the existing template contents.

 

[The Sandman]

You can do it now if you like.
This is the content required for the cta_featuredthreads_thread_list_item template:

I didn't have an existing cta_featuredthreads_thread_list_item template. I created one.

 

[Paul B]

That template was introduced a long time ago - 1.0.0 in fact.

Are you sure?

 

[The Sandman]

I'm not sure - I couldn't find the template so I created it. But when it didn't seem to work I was able to revert the template back to the original version.

 

[jauburn]

Hmm, I'm not a fan of that really.

Anyone else have an opinion?
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I do not care for either of those suggestions.