Amount of visible posts on the front page Forums

autostratus · Moderator

Don't care one way or the other.

As I said the last time this came up, I have the Motorhomefacts Forum Index logged into 'favourites' and when I enter the site just click on 'posts in the last 24 hours'

Motorhomersimpson · Moderator

I'm not really that concerned either way, the for, and against, both have valid arguments.

I can however understand what Ian (bsb2000) means about the meetings that are arranged, it would be a great help if something could be done to highlight and keep these posts in view, (perhaps for meetings only, make the post a sticky on the home page as well)

MHS...Rob Very Happy

twooks

there is a lot of useful info / links on the left hand column - including mention of rallies. perhaps that could be adapted / emphasised more to address Ian's very valid concern.

also has useful stuff on PM's waiting and forum search facilities.

Cool

Texas

I vote yes because my wife said I had to.

Out of curiosity, how can I get back to the front page from the forums?

Texas

peedee

Please don't make stickies on the home page, that would only serve to clutter it further if they are of no interest to you. To me, a far better solution is to go straight to "post since last logged in" once you have logged in. That way you should not miss any new posts even those posted days ago. The only problem then is how do you keep"important" posts to the fore if nothing has been added to them for days? Certainly some are sent into oblivion far too quickly. Perhaps one step at a time is better because there is still the capablity of making an important post a sticky in the individual forums and there are always the adds at the bottom to highlight a topic or if there is a vote running on the home page provide a link to the relevent post.

peedee

nukeadmin · Site Admin

well there is a clear majority here who would prefer the number of posts upped so be it Smile

peedee

A further suggestion don't put Jokes and Trivia or Off topic subjects on
the home page. Keep them in the relevant forums only. They appear to represent about 10 percent of the posts , not a lot, but what are folks visiting the site for? There are only 350 regular contributers and only 20 percent of the membership have ever posted anything (estimates taken from members list) Those not interested in contributing to the forums or rarely do so might only want to see the important stuff anyway. In so doing they might be enticed to contribute more.

Just a few more thoughts but I don't think increasing the number of posts on the home page is the right way to go.

peedee

peedee

[quote:f77b93c13d="nukeadmin"]well there is a clear majority here who would prefer the number of posts upped so be it Smile

[/quote:f77b93c13d]

but it is a very very small percentage of the membership nuke?

peedee

nukeadmin · Site Admin

[quote:0d4b5d9c22]A further suggestion don't put Jokes and Trivia or Off topic subjects on
the home page.[/quote:0d4b5d9c22]
This is a fairly easy change for me to code in, what are everyones elses thoughts on this ?