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Re: New homepage for LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:39:43 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller wrote:
Julie Krenz <dkrenz@mc.net> wrote:
BL has a cool feature for the discussion forum. It has a calender
showing posts by date: http://www.bricklink.com/calendar.asp?v=F
If I'm out of town for a weekend, it makes it very easy to pick up where
I left off.

What Lugnet should *really* do is keep track of read and unread posts,
like a proper newsreader. Even better than a calendar. But that's a major
change that's going to take a while to get implemented.

Not that there's anything wrong with the calendar idea -- basically an
extension of <http://news.lugnet.com/news/traffic/>.

We've got something kind of like that over at BZPower too... one of the features
that the members really seem to like is "Today's Hot Topics" on the front page.
It links to the most posted-in threads of the last 24 hours, updated hourly.

There are all sorts of little extras that would definitely add value for lots of
different visitors to Lugnet. I'm looking forward to seeing what people come up
with.

- Kelly



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(...) Having a hot topics module would be a great addition. Also, the LUGNET Traffic page (link at the top right corner) shows you which groups are hot, but not which topics are hot. The Top Stories is determined using the (member) Spotlight feature (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)

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  Re: New homepage for LUGNET
 
(...) What Lugnet should *really* do is keep track of read and unread posts, like a proper newsreader. Even better than a calendar. But that's a major change that's going to take a while to get implemented. Not that there's anything wrong with the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)

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