Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

[PeterPiper]

Re: Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

well it's working

here's me thinking it was quiet on "maniacs" then I scrolled down a touch and found the offtopic buzzing away

@Haze - you know I do

[Hazy]

Re: Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

shouldn't that read

:redface:

You do enjoy your :spank: don't you!!!!!!

:p X

[tankgirltaz]

Re: Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

Well the queries can be tuned to show the last X topics, rather than the last 10 so that the off topic window is a little higher, but I think that the on-topic should take precedence in the page layout.

even me the queen of inane shite agrees with that

[RichG]

Re: Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

just a shame you can't see the offtopic until you scroll a tiny bit down (at least for me on 1280)
so if you forget that page has changed you might think no new posts are present

no that wasn't a request to alter it:wag:

Well the queries can be tuned to show the last X topics, rather than the last 10 so that the off topic window is a little higher, but I think that the on-topic should take precedence in the page layout.

[PeterPiper]

Re: Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

that's not to be confusticated with

Sorry I'm a woman

[tankgirltaz]

Re: Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

naughty, do I need to break out the paddle???

[PeterPiper]

Re: Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

Sorry, I do babble on Get bored, fidgety and restless, you see...

X

shouldn't that read

sorry, I'm a woman

:redface:

[Hazy]

Re: Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

Indeed you can

Sorry, I do babble on Get bored, fidgety and restless, you see...

X

[PeterPiper]

Re: Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

just a shame you can't see the offtopic until you scroll a tiny bit down (at least for me on 1280)
so if you forget that page has changed you might think no new posts are present

no that wasn't a request to alter it:wag:

[RichG]

Re: Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

We can't talk about smarts all day though We can, however, manage inane banter

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I agree with Herman though - in alot of ways the off topic and community stuff is a viable and essential part of this online community - it would be boring if we only ever talked shop

Indeed you can

[Hazy]

Re: Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

We can't talk about smarts all day though We can, however, manage inane banter

X

[RichG]

Re: Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

1) I'm not 'the boss', I'm the bloke that was mad enough to take on the site and therefore put my head above the parapet to be blown off by people I don't know for things that are outside my control (you lot)

2) Upsetting is the wrong term, I wasn't loving seeing a smart site full of off topic, so needed to find a way to fulfil both areas of our community. I think the new approach works

[PeterPiper]

Re: Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

but it's upsetting the boss

There was a time that I logged on last week and there was not a single smart topic on the homepage - this is a smart site

[RichG]

Re: Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

Good idea, wouldn't be too hard to have another index page for the inane, insane, and indupitably strange

Easy to link it to a subdomain too, how about offtopictosh.smartmaniacs.co.uk

I agree with Herman though - in alot of ways the off topic and community stuff is a viable and essential part of this online community - it would be boring if we only ever talked shop

[herman1rg]

Re: Community chatter posts not showing on forum homepage?

I suppose the ideal would be if you snapped this section off and just spawned a new website solely for comm chatter etc

Now what shall we call it?

Personally I disagree, I think there is a place for community chatter because Smarties (mostly) are sociable.

This is primarily a Smart car related website but people love chatting about allsorts so there needs to be space for all without people treading on each others toes/fingers.

I do post in both areas with no particular favouritism.