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Subject: 
Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 9 Mar 2000 16:43:59 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Loch writes:
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:

I like this alot.  Especially filtering off-topic and test.

Suggestion: How about having an alternate "complete/old style" page linked
from the homepage and nuke the annoying "Not Shown" messages?

Maybe it's just a coincidence - but for most of the times that I've looked at
the front page today, it tells me more about what isn't being shown, than what
is. I'd prefer to see at least four messages all of the time, with perhaps the
'not shown' text in a smaller font above or below.

Richard



Message has 4 Replies:
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Oh great - I just pushed it over the edge - what was 3 not shown is now 4 not shown :( I think it's a good idea, but the way it is just now, you have to hit one of the 'show me more' before you see what's going on, or what's going on but (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Yah. A smaller font would go a long way towards making it less jarring, but I suspect that the best (as in 'least jarring') solution would be to have the main page (and derivatives thereof) actually showing the number of messages it claims to. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) I wish that were easier to do. To do that would mean ripping the guts out of the insides instead of just the top. Easy to code, actually, but much harder to code for both viewing possibilities (shown and not-shown). It wasn't a design criteria (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) Yes! That's what's really annoying. Even with the smaller font, not having four messages on the front page is bad bad bad. Actually I'd like to see 10 messages on the home page, but four is fine as long as the number is FIXED, not variable. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: I like this alot. Especially filtering off-topic and test. Suggestion: How about having an alternate "complete/old style" page linked from the homepage and nuke the annoying "Not Shown" messages? KL (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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