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Re: New Lugnet Design and Top Stories List
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:44:44 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Jeffery MacEachern wrote:
> > hi people(s),
> >
> > I haven't posted in quite a while, but I was prompted to by two things.
> > First, I want to say how much I like the new Lugnet Design, with all the
> > beautiful javascript functions ;). Congrats to the web design people!
> >
> > Second, I was thinking about the Top Stories list. It's a great idea, but
> > it usually highlights only the MOC announcements. Often I come on Lugnet
> > and look at a few messages, but I can't get all the groups e-mailed to me,
> > and Lugnet is so massive that I don't really know where to go - it's kind of
> > hard to "browse." What would be nice is a customizable top stories list, so
> > that I could see the latest in several newsgroups of my choice at a glance,
> > without spending the time to go through 6 different groups normally.
>
> I think this is made difficult because the top stories list (and much of the
> front page I think?) is cached, and re-generated regularly, to reduce server
> load. To allow a customisable list on the front page would increase that load
> substantially.
>
> But it would be useful to maybe have another page somewhere other than the
> front page (My Favourite Groups?) which allows this customisation, so I'm
> following up to the suggestions group.
>
> ROSCO
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> FUT .admin.suggestions
As members we can create our own using an FTX page. You just need to specify
what you want to be included.
I created http://www.lugnet.com/~549/test_newsspotlight
Which is simply:
<<NewsSpotlight(lugnet.general)>>
<<NewsSpotlight(lugnet.parts)>>
<<NewsSpotlight(lugnet.trains)>>
HTH,
Jude
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