Ah, I see it now with the push pin. Maybe an enhancement like a slight color change or a more pronounced separation might be something worth thinking about.Like the one at the top of this forum?
You may be wondering why you hadn't noticed the sticky thread in this forum.
That is the entire point. If sticky threads are highlighted obviously, users suffer from 'sticky blindness' where they start reading the thread list from underneath the stickies, as they assume they have already seen whatever is stuck there.
If you want your users to actually read your stickies, they should look basically identical to normal threads.
I trust there'll be an admin CP option to turn that on and off?
To turn what on and off?
I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to a highlight class or something though? Make the thread stick out until it's read, and then simply remove the class after so it blends in with the rest of the forum.
In that way there's special attention drawn to that particular thread the first time, and once it's been read, it blends in with everything else.
You may be wondering why you hadn't noticed the sticky thread in this forum.
That is the entire point. If sticky threads are highlighted obviously, users suffer from 'sticky blindness' where they start reading the thread list from underneath the stickies, as they assume they have already seen whatever is stuck there.
If you want your users to actually read your stickies, they should look basically identical to normal threads.
I personally like the thumbtack. You still know it's a sticky, but it doesnt look too out of place. My question is, does XF support forum announcements?
You may be wondering why you hadn't noticed the sticky thread in this forum.
That is the entire point. If sticky threads are highlighted obviously, users suffer from 'sticky blindness' where they start reading the thread list from underneath the stickies, as they assume they have already seen whatever is stuck there.
If you want your users to actually read your stickies, they should look basically identical to normal threads.
I personally like the thumbtack. You still know it's a sticky, but it doesnt look too out of place. My question is, does XF support forum announcements?
Not at present.
Yeah, I agree that there should be some sort of visual cue other than the pushpin icon, which can be out of the user's field of view on wider monitors like mine. I honestly was trying to figure out why that thread was at the top of the forum each time, and that's when I went over to the right and saw the icon.
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