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Would you prefer if the shoutbox was at the top of the forums, under the banner? How about an announcement box for updates or content spotlight?
Shoutbox at the top 3 (37.5%)
Announcement box 3 (37.5%)
Neither 2 (25%)
Total Votes: 8
Small yet sweet update; 7/5/12
Topic Started: Jul 5 2012, 08:42 PM (237 Views)
AUREL1EN
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"Your life defines you, but you define your legacy."

Hey guys, this update isn't really all that huge, but I figured I might as well post it anyway just because I haven't made one of these in a long time. So here's the new stuff:

Blog Subscribing: Have you ever wondered what the hell the point of the "blog" feature here on Zetaboards was if it was so tucked away into members profiles? Well, I did too, which is why several months ago I put up a code that added a profile field that would link to your blog. This was great and provided much easier access to everyone's blogs, but then a new problem came up: Since people don't make blog entries that often, how the hell are you supposed to know when they DO post new stuff? I mean, unless you're obsessed with this person, it's not like you're going to click on their blog link every day, right? So, the smart thing to do would be to just subscribe to their blog, just like you can subscribe to topics and forums. However, Zetaboards hates blogs for some reason, and that feature didn't exist... UNTIL NOW! That's right, I found a code that adds a little "subscribe to this blog" link at the top of everyone's blogs! We don't have that many people who are running blogs (myself, Cass, Trex, and AK are the only ones I can think of at the top of my head, although I'm sure there are a few others (and if there are, I'm sorry if I forgot you)), so I suggest you just go ahead and subscribe to everyone's blogs, that way you'll know as soon as any of us post a new entry! And no, I'm not doing this just to promote my own blog. I swear.

New Avatars: Next in the update, are you tired of your avatar but too lazy/unskilled to make a new one? Well you're in luck, because I added a second load of new basic sprite avatars to the avatar list. To access them, just click "change avatar" under your preferences. You'll see a bunch of orange folders, including one named "sprites" all the way to that right. Click that one to check out our sweet inventory! All of these, as well as the first load (aside from the default Master Chief one) have been provided by Tyrannosaurus, so I'd like to give him a big thanks for that!

Shoutbox/Announcement Poll: Lastly, this something that I normally do in my News posts, but I added a poll to this topic asking if you guys would like the shoutbox to be moved to the top of the forums. I know I personally forget that it exists a lot of the times because I never scroll down that far (I have access to every single joinable group forum, so my list of forums is longer than anyone else's and thus I sometimes don't scroll down all the way). Adding it to the top would make it more noticeable, and thus more people would communicate with it. The only thing I can think of that is debatable about this is that it might not be all that aesthetically pleasing. The code I found places it under the banner and above the forum list, so it's not like it would be at the VERY TOP of the forums, but still. And if you guys DON'T want the shoutbox at the top, would you rather have an announcement box in which I can type up little random announcements for stuff like a new forum update or just cool content to be spotlighted? If you'd rather have that at the top, vote for that option. It's up to you guys, tell me what you think! If we get a decent amount of votes for one of the two, then I'll add the code and just edit this topic, adding a third part to this update.

Hope you guys enjoyed this update, see you on sunday for the news!

-Aurillynilly
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Mr. Skeli'n
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Call me Mik

I think the announcement box could be a cool "What happened in the last 48 hours" kind of thing, or something to remind people if there's a contest going, or if someone's doing a Q&A, needs sprite help, etc.
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AUREL1EN
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"Your life defines you, but you define your legacy."

Mik
Jul 5 2012, 09:04 PM
I think the announcement box could be a cool "What happened in the last 48 hours" kind of thing, or something to remind people if there's a contest going, or if someone's doing a Q&A, needs sprite help, etc.
Maybe not specifically 48 hours, probably be more at random intervals, but definitely at least a few times a week (so more frequent than the news posts). Just anytime there happened to be something to report. They would usually only have one or two brief items (like the stuff you mentioned).
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Mr. Skeli'n
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IF we move the shoutbox to the top, I make a motion that it's made vertically smaller.
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AUREL1EN
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"Your life defines you, but you define your legacy."

I don't know of any mods for that, however if I revert the shoutbox to it's original properties it might be a tad shorter. Idk, we'll see. Honestly I'm liking the idea of an announcement box a bit better than having the shoutbox up there, but it's up to you guys to decide, so keep voting! we're tied right now and not many people have voted, so I'd like to get a few more votes in before making my decision!
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Bsingh11
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I think we should keep it at the bottom, my reason is becuse If you were a guest, and you just enter the site home page, and the first thing you see is a big fat shoutbox, don't you thinck that would be a little odd?
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AUREL1EN
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"Your life defines you, but you define your legacy."

Bsingh11
Jul 8 2012, 06:20 PM
I think we should keep it at the bottom, my reason is becuse If you were a guest, and you just enter the site home page, and the first thing you see is a big fat shoutbox, don't you thinck that would be a little odd?
That makes sense.

These poll results are very... inconclusive...
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Cass
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I voted for the top because I keep forgetting we have one at times since it's at the bottom.
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