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Best Of

Formerly "Lemon Fool - Improve the Recipe" repurposed as Room 102 (see above).
KingMcKong
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Best Of

#1096

Postby KingMcKong » November 6th, 2016, 1:05 pm

THE go-to place when browsing TMF has always been 'Best Of'

This allowed you to see what's active, whether something you'd worked on had caught others' imagination, and a resource for discovering new places to bookmark.

Unless I've missed it there isn't a 'Best Of' here yet.

Please could it be added?

Many thanks!!!

KMcK

PS - it took ages to find where the 'Post New' button was. Please move to an obvious place up top.

PPS - Congratulations on taking on this MASSIVE start up task. It is very brave!!!!

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Re: Best Of

#1101

Postby Midsmartin » November 6th, 2016, 1:12 pm

There's discussion of this elsewhere. I think the issue is that the forum software "out of the box" does not support any sort of recs, which is obviously a requirement for 'best of'' - though I suppose you could make a "most read" page as an alternative. There are several alternative bits of add-in software for implementing recs/likes/dislikes. None of these probably implement a 'best of' page without some customisation, so suddenly we're looking at proper work that needs doing by someone to test these things.

But I agree - the 'best of' is vital in keeping people interested in the site by finding them interesting things to read.

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Re: Best Of

#1211

Postby tieresias » November 6th, 2016, 4:10 pm

Personally, I have hardly used the BoB for some years now. What I would MUCH rather see is "Favourite Boards", which is independent of the ability to rec, and allows me to focus on the boards I am interested in.

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Re: Best Of

#1264

Postby stooz » November 6th, 2016, 6:12 pm

Revs, best of, favourites, all being looked into. Just need a little more time to resolve.
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Re: Best Of

#1269

Postby Slarti » November 6th, 2016, 6:19 pm

tieresias wrote:Personally, I have hardly used the BoB for some years now. What I would MUCH rather see is "Favourite Boards", which is independent of the ability to rec, and allows me to focus on the boards I am interested in.



I'd agree with that. I only looked at BoB when somebody commented on it, usually in surprise that topic X was getting so many recs.

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Re: Best Of

#1435

Postby NomoneyNohoney » November 6th, 2016, 10:12 pm

Sometimes though, BoB really helped. A few times I'd see a heavily recced post from a less-frequented board: Rural Living as an example - and some of Jerry's posts have been awesome. Until I added Rural Living to my subscribed boards, I'd not have realised what I was missing, without the existence of BoB.

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Re: Best Of

#1453

Postby Arborbridge » November 6th, 2016, 10:48 pm

For me, the BoB was always useful. I'd check my usual boards (mainly HYP!) but would always check BoB, for it's there that you pick up ideas outside your own normal frame of reference and make some surprisingly intructive discoveries.

It'll happen here before long, I'm sure.


Arb.

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Re: Best Of

#1456

Postby stooz » November 6th, 2016, 10:52 pm

Shhhh.. don't tell anyone, but I think I have the a "like" feature in progress.

Hopefully it answers many questions.
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Re: Best Of

#1922

Postby wickham » November 7th, 2016, 9:10 pm

There's a mod. for likes in phpBB developed by Tom Brennan here:
http://www.mildredbrennan.com/blog/?p=118

It's based on an out of date version, but quite often extensions or mods will work on a later version as I've discovered. However, it probably isn't approved by phpBB.

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Re: Best Of

#1935

Postby stooz » November 7th, 2016, 9:31 pm

Ive been looking at that one - if anyone is interested, I have tested out the likes mod on http://stoozing.com/stoozforum/

If you wanted to have a quick play.

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Re: Best Of

#1941

Postby wickham » November 7th, 2016, 9:43 pm

Well that looks OK, although I haven't tried to add a "like".

Being pedantic, "Been thanked" should be "Has been thanked" or just "Thanks".

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Re: Best Of

#1946

Postby stooz » November 7th, 2016, 9:58 pm

Its written by a Russian fellow, so I should have no problem tweaking the wording.


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