Collaborative Project - LC front page - definitions - decision making history

This Forum is dedicated to organising previous discussions about the front page, LC definitions and decision making history.  

I have suggested in the "As requested, I invite you into a virtual living room" forum that we reply to this thread and then edit such reply's with new LC history you find.

Be sure to indicate the date and time you make your edit to ensure we keep an accurate record of updates.

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November 17, 2006 - 7:10 pm

June 11, 2006 - voting to the front page - This is a long one. - Blogs - front page - voting - decision making - definitions -

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November 17, 2006 - 11:20 am

September 6 2006-The first suggestion that I can remember right now would be found in the minutes of our last organisational development meeting.

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November 17, 2006 - 6:05 pm

September 26, 2006- Our Virtual Neighborhood. - Blogs - front page.

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Jay Dixon's picture

Confusing to the Max !!!!!!

I would LOVE to participate in this discussion, but your instructions make no sense at all.
PLEASE let this not be an unnecessary 10 step process to participate and make comments.

Jeff P.'s picture

Hey Jay

I'm still just learning this stuff as well.  

EVEN thought this looks like a time consuming process, it really isn't. After a couple of times doing it you'll find it is much easier and a lot faster to accomplish.  

You have taken the first step already by creating a reply. When you sign in, there is an edit option at the bottom of your text (underneath your reply). click the edit button and it will allow you change what is written in that box.

Once you have found material that you feel is pertinant to the compilation add a link to it as I have done in mine.

To add a link, highlight the address in the address bar of the page you want to link to. right click on the highlighted text and then left click on copy. now make your way back to this page.

left click edit button. I have used the underscore key (hold shift and the button that is to the right of  zero) to make the lines that seperate each reference. then write the date and time that you are making the update. at the begining of the next line add the date of the original post. then write the title of the post your linking to. now highlight that title. left click the icon that looks like a chain link (beside the arrow swooping to the right in the grey box at the top of your reply)  A box will appear asking you for a URL. right click inside the top space. left click on paste (if there is no paste option, left click in the space so that you see the cursor blinking and then hold control down and hit v). Then left click to insert.

I'm sorry if some or most of this info was not new to you. I thought this was a good opportunity to write specific instructions for anyone who has never done this before.

hope it works for you.

Jeff 

 

Jay Dixon's picture

Thanks Jeff- but nope!

Thanks Jeff for making all that effort to explain, but that is exactly my point- it should not be paragrapghs of explanation so people can add input.================================

There is no chance at all that I am going to go through all those steps ( Windows based- so no go on my Mac for mouse steps) to make a comment.
I will make it as usual and youse guys can ignore, edit, add, what ever.
I absolutely despise having simple actions turned into unnecessary multi-stage processes.
It is not personal to you- just think what you are asking in getting people to make simple comments. It's like a Dilbert cartoon!

Jeff P.'s picture

Well, I don't think it's possible anyway.

I forgot that the ability to edit replies was disabled. this is a real problem for what has been proposed. Would it be possible to enable that function again Jeremy? I understand that if it was disabled it was for a good reason. That being the case do you see any solutions to this dilemma?

In the interim, if you want to contribute to the thread with some references please just add them in a reply. 

cheers

*edit* interesting... I have the ability to edit this reply but not the other. hmmm. 

Trev McNaughton's picture

editing

you can't edit replies after someone else replies to it.

atleast thats as far as I could tell...

Jeremy M's picture

trev is right as far as i can tell

It doesn't say anything about this in the Drupal documentation online as far as I can tell.  Maybe in one of the Drupal books?  I'll have to check.

We've never changed anything about people's ability to edit comments, it's the same as day 1.   

In fact, looking through the settings I can't find a way to contol editing of one's comments, but I could be overlooking it because of the hour.  I think I can understand why the Drupal developers would make it this way: you have an opportunity to correct mistakes, but once someone replies to you then what you said becomes permanent so you cannot make it seem as though you didn't say something you really did.

I don't know how difficult this would be to change.

 

Jeremy 

 

Jeff P.'s picture

that makes sense

I wonder... how can create some type of area that can be an accumulation of postings yet minimizes the length of the thread. the amount of reading and scrolling can become "too damn cumbersum" at times. Undecided

Jeff 

Mike McGregor's picture

freewiki?

Just start a new page there maybe, with links to relevant threads.  

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Mike.
"We only wear black, but that's just until something darker comes along..." -Anonymous Black Bloc Member.

Aron Barnes's picture

Personalized Front Pages?

How difficult would it be to allow users to personalize what they would like to see on their front page after they log in?

Jeremy M's picture

re: personalized front pages

Yo,

I don't know, it's something that would need investigating.  It might be relatively simple to allow people to choose which page to load when the sign in (e.g recent posts, the forums, /blog etc.).

If what you're suggesting is allowing people to create their own dynamic front page that displays content from sections they've chosen, this maybe be a little more difficult.

There may be a Drupal module that does this. 

 

Jeremy 

Toban B's picture

Default

Seems worth investigating, but there still would be a default layout (for readers who actually sign in.)

I expect that the majority of users wouldn't change the layout of their front page -- unless they were helped and encouraged.

Jeremy M's picture

my blog entry

Here's a link to my blog entry about these issues.

Jeremy 

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