New “What’s New” Layout

[Sal Collaziano]

Why not make a new “What’s New” layout, at least available as an option, where instead of simply scrolling through topic TITLES, actually seeing a few lines of the first post - with the ability to “see more”, see comments, and reply - without leaving the “What’s New” page?

Facebook works this way because it draws people in to either react (like, etc) or comment. They have spent a lot of time and money on researching what gets people motivated to add DATA to their system.

The “What’s New” area is very old school since UBB. It’s time for a change.

 

[beerForo]

Would definitely like a modern feed that incorporated the official add-ons and profile posts in one list instead of disjointed widgets as well.

 

[Sal Collaziano]

Viewers are more likely to respond or react to a message if they SEE it. A title is not enough.

 

[AzzidReign]

We need a feed for everything...that looks great and is functional. Right now...it's all separated and unintuitive with lack of function to the point where people just don't use the "what's new".

 

[Sal Collaziano]

We need a feed for everything...that looks great and is functional. Right now...it's all separated and unintuitive with lack of function to the point where people just don't use the "what's new".

Yes, the feed should show all activity. A true interactive activity feed.

 

[Orit]

I totally agree.
Would love to see a more modern layout.
If you know about an add-on that does this- please let me know!

 

[Kirby]

If you know about an add-on that does this- please let me know!

You might want to take a look at https://xenforo.com/community/threads/new-xenforo-experience-ace-download-free.196951/

The feed basically already does exist:

Latest activity

xenforo.com

It just lacks interaction features, eg. being able to reply/react/vote/watch/bookmark/share without leaving the page.

 

[Sal Collaziano]

There needs to be a way to simply see every discussion happening on one page and be able to interact with each discussion right there. If there's too much going on in the main "what's new" just go into the specific forum you want to be in and scroll down to read and interact with any post you want. It's really not that complicated and once one forum software offers this experience, the only ones that will continue to exist are the ones that do the same...

 

[Orit]

You might want to take a look at https://xenforo.com/community/threads/new-xenforo-experience-ace-download-free.196951/

The feed basically already does exist:

Latest activity

xenforo.com

It just lacks interaction features, eg. being able to reply/react/vote/watch/bookmark/share without leaving the page.

Thank you!
We are looking for the interaction features too, but this is a start
I hope they'll add it to the following versions...

Does the feed add-on work without the ACE theme?
It's still a beta version so I won't add it yet to the production site.

 

[Mr Lucky]

I have voted for this.

But just a little FYI, there is a thread asking how to achieve this in threadlist by customising:

XF 2.1 - Adding tooltip thread preview in thread list item?

Instead of the link hover popup I think it might be interested to try adding the preview text under the link title, but I can't find what will generate that. All I found was {{ bb_code($firstPost.message, 'post:thread_preview', $firstPost, { 'lightbox': false }) }} but it does...

xenforo.com

And there is a resonaly priced addon which does it:

Recent Posts 2 by Siropu

A feature rich widget that display recent posts in a block, thread list style (same as forum view). Widget features Display recent, unread or watched threads Display threads of current visitor Set maximum entries to display Display entries...

xenforo.com

However I voted for this also because it's something that would be good in the core of xenforo, not have to get yet another addon!

 

[Southfork1]

Why not make a new “What’s New” layout

Kinda agree on the suggestion but also I'll note that IMO they kinda did add a new look / approach to "what's new", with the addition of the search forum. It's a great addition. I list a search forum as the first on my forum index list. There I search / filter an idealistic result pulled from throughout the site while omitting the off-topic stuff. I do that by making the users select a prefix "NFR" for not fishing related threads posted in our general forum node, which I filter out in the search forum, along with leaving out off-topic forums all together.

 

[DigNap15]

This modern feed front end needs to be part of the XF core.
All of these add-ons are too complex and full of bugs.

We all need to conatct XF and suggest that they start working on it. Maybe they already are?
XF 3.00 ?

 

[beerForo]

We all need to conatct XF and suggest that they start working on it.

Can you imagine if "we all" contacted staff individually asking them to work on what we feel is important? I would highly suggest you keep it here in Suggestions.

 

[cdub]

Also this needs to show all content types and ditch the annoying tabs

 

[Digital Doctor]

and ditch the annoying tabs

definitely.



and does "new media comments" deserve it's own tab ?

I believe you can get rid of these tabs if you want.

honestly searching for media comments should only be relegated to users on the MEDIA TAB.


Most sites shouldn't want media isolated in it's own tab.

 

[CedricV]

+ have infinite scrolling.

 

[Sal Collaziano]

Why not make a new “What’s New” layout, at least available as an option, where instead of simply scrolling through topic TITLES, actually seeing a few lines of the first post - with the ability to “see more”, see comments, and reply - without leaving the “What’s New” page?

Facebook works this way because it draws people in to either react (like, etc) or comment. They have spent a lot of time and money on researching what gets people motivated to add DATA to their system.

The “What’s New” area is very old school since UBB. It’s time for a change.

I'd still love this as an option. I have so many people coming to my forums posting messages as if everyone sees the content and not the title.

 

[alfaNova]

I would recommend the following addon. Feed option is great as well.

[XB] Forum Content List Tabs

Oct 10, 2022

Enhance your forum browsing experience with tabbed content lists

• Painbaker
• Add-ons [2.x]

 

[Opus X]

Yes, the feed should show all activity. A true interactive activity feed.

i like the way invision does theirs.
from what i saw the user can customize the feed to what they want.

 

[Sal Collaziano]

i like the way invision does theirs.
from what i saw the user can customize the feed to what they want.

It's nice that it shows some of the message so that people who don't use good topic titles will still have their message scanned/read. At least partially. That would work for me if there's an option to show the whole message AND interact right there without having to leave the screen. This way further reading and participating can be done on the same screen by scrolling.