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jema
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 1:07 pm Post subject: Do we dump recent and or popular articles from front page?
They were there at least in part as people could not navigate easily down to the articles. Now I think that is no longer an issue.

Bugs

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 1:08 pm Post subject:
Kill both.

bagpuss

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 1:29 pm Post subject:
I think editors choice is more useful than recent

tahir

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 1:32 pm Post subject:
Kill both

Bugs

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 1:33 pm Post subject:

bagpuss wrote:

I think editors choice is more useful than recent

The cat speaks wisely

jema
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 2:38 pm Post subject:
Dumped, and I am feeling really pleased with the new look

tahir

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 2:51 pm Post subject:
V good but it still needs separators between sections

dougal

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 3:01 pm Post subject:
I'm going to be a heretic and say that I think that "popular" articles would be a good thing to wave at newcomers... who ought to turn up on the front page... And similarly "Editor's choice" ought to be a showcase of whats best... again the sort of thing to wave at visitors... (But not top left!) Just my two euro cents worth!

cab

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 3:13 pm Post subject:
Trouble with 'popular' articles is that we ended up with things like 'top ten wild foods for winter' and 'top ten wild mushrooms for a beginner ' (excellent articles, by the way, whoever wrote them must be something special) lingering way past their seasonal usefulness.

macatsuma

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 3:18 pm Post subject:
i know i'm new and all that and probably being a bit on the numb side but how do i find out current threads, i mean yes i have topics i'm interested in more than other but surely debate is livelier and more inclusive if its alive. Won't stuff just disappear off into the ether if folk don't know whats being talked about? or should i have just curtailed my sentance at the "a bit numb" stage?

jema
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 3:22 pm Post subject:
"View Latest Posts" will show you the current topics. You need to have been around a little while for that to work for you. Recoding it, to show posts in the last day has crossed my mind!

Bugs

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 3:23 pm Post subject:

dougal wrote:

I'm going to be a heretic and say that I think that "popular" articles would be a good thing to wave at newcomers..."Editor's choice" ought to be a showcase of whats best...

But that would make them both the same thing

I put up an explanation elsewhere on this board about the Editor's choice bit because it's not set in stone but I thought people would want an idea of what it's meant to be. Only did it this am so you might not have seen it.

Popular articles might be an idea - sort of top ten useful articles as voted by DS members - but most of them have a bit of a seasonalness about them, for example chickens are a bit springy, and wine making summery, and mushrooms autumnal...as Cab says we can't just go on the views because it means some old stalwarts get top billing, like Wild Foods in Winter which the author, a known troublemaker, got lucky on placement wise

Northern_Lad

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 3:25 pm Post subject:
Looks good with them both dumped. What's going on with the 'home' at the top of the page? Missing identifiers?

cab

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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 3:32 pm Post subject:

Bugs wrote:

...as Cab says we can't just go on the views because it means some old stalwarts get top billing, like Wild Foods in Winter which the author, a known troublemaker, got lucky on placement wise

Troublemaker? Here? Where?

jema
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 3:48 pm Post subject:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Looks good with them both dumped.

What's going on with the 'home' at the top of the page? Missing identifiers?

Have killed that off.

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