Do you like the forum description on hover only?

[holder10]

Hi,

the description of forums on the forum list only appears on hover and the forum stats are placed way more prominently instead on XenForo. I'm not sure if this is the right way. What do you think about it?

Cheers,
holder10

 

[Been Told]

At first I liked it a lot, now I'm not so keen anymore. That may change at any point though lol.

 

[Brandon_R]

I like it.

 

[anotheralias]

I suspect I'll be in the minority here, but I like it. Often the forum descriptions are pretty self-evident anyway, like ...

Introduce Yourself! In this forum, you can tell us something about yourself, and we can offer up an official greeting.
Off-topic Discuss anything not related to The Topic, yep anything at all! Sit back, relax, and talk away!

 

[Sador]

Yeh.

 

[Brandon_R]

Yeh.

Sador, i didn't get an Alert for your post? Is that a bug or just wait for the cron job to run?

 

[holder10]

I suspect I'll be in the minority here, but I like it. Often the forum descriptions are pretty self-evident anyway, like ...

Introduce Yourself! In this forum, you can tell us something about yourself, and we can offer up an official greeting.
Off-topic Discuss anything not related to The Topic, yep anything at all! Sit back, relax, and talk away!

You make a good point there, I observed that as well. I'm just not sure if stats are really more important than the description. Plus, I'm not a fan of long descriptions appearing like this on that many elements.

 

[Been Told]

I should point out that what I dislike isn't not seeing them until I hover the mouse over the forum link. I dislike it popping up when I hover the mouse over the forum link.

 

[dutchbb]

I like it here, but I'm not sure if I will on our forums. I would like to suggest an Admin option to always show the description.

 

[Sador]

Sador, i didn't get an Alert for your post? Is that a bug or just wait for the cron job to run?

Why would you get an alert for my post? I didn't quote you and you're not following me...

 

[Brandon_R]

Why would you get an alert for my post? I didn't quote you and you're not following me...

nvm i thought i get alerts for threads i post in lol

 

[mrGTB]

I would sooner see the forum description the old way that forums generally show it as text under the forum title

 

[CBI Web]

Perhaps it should be an admin option.

Show forum descriptions on hover? - Yes | No

If 'No' is chosen, admins need to enter the description themselves, as we've done since the beginning of time.

 

[Sejper]

Perhaps it should be an admin option.

Show forum descriptions on hover? - Yes | No

If 'No' is chosen, admins need to enter the description themselves, as we've done since the beginning of time.

It can be solved by an very simple template edit so there is no need for an admin option.

 

[Cezz]

It can be solved by an very simple template edit so there is no need for an admin option.

Agreed, Kier has already showed that the descriptions are under the titles originally and it is only JS that makes it into a hover so you disable that bit of JS and it is done...

 

[dutchbb]

It can be solved by an very simple template edit so there is no need for an admin option.

This is not something that you want to do in templates IMO. It's really a personal thing and a lot of people would want the option to quickly enable/disable, so it makes much sense to make it an admin option. Actually, it makes even more sense to make it a user CP option, since it's so personal.

 

[Grover]

Actually, it makes even more sense to make it a user CP option, since it's so personal.

Now, there is an idea .

And no, I do not like the hover, especially when it comes to new members to my platform. Obviously. So that is why I like your idea of an UserCP options very much.

3 forum home points that could be re-examined

I have 3 instances where I think the outstanding interface of XenForo could be different/re-examined. And they all have to do with forumoverview:

• Forum descriptions only show on mouse-over. Making it hard for new users to our platform to see at a glance what the forums are about (Kier stated it can be changed with a very easy template edit)
• Subforums are hidden behind an arrow/dropdown
• <>

 

[mrGTB]

This is not something that you want to do in templates IMO. It's really a personal thing and a lot of people would want the option to quickly enable/disable, so it makes much sense to make it an admin option. Actually, it makes even more sense to make it a user CP option, since it's so personal.

I'd second that idea. Good thinking.

 

[Onimua]

This is not something that you want to do in templates IMO. It's really a personal thing and a lot of people would want the option to quickly enable/disable, so it makes much sense to make it an admin option. Actually, it makes even more sense to make it a user CP option, since it's so personal.

But how many people would actually bother with it? Most people don't bother with settings as it is.

The problem with the personal approach is that we would end up with a lot of things as an option in the ACP or the UCP because people like to see things in different ways, and it was that series of options that ended up making vBulletin somewhat bloated; there's practically a switch for everything, even the most trivial of things, when really there shouldn't be.

Right now it's as simple as removing a small bit of line in a template if I remember a post by Kier correctly. If you don't want it on your board, remove it and you're done.

 

[GameR]

i miss: i don't know.

I think, is not bad, but is odd.