Sub-forum links on forum home

[Thunderfall]

What do you think about it? Like it? hate it?

It's a feature that I didn't know existed in vB 3. I think it's cool because it makes it easier to access sub-forums and gives those sub-forums more hits as a result.

I am going to keep this for at least for a week or two...

PS: The little icons in front of the sub-forums indicate whether the sub-forum has new posts or not.

 

[WildFire]

I am going to keep this for at least for a week or two...

Keep it longer

 

[Strider]

Keep it forever

Also, I got on earlier and there was something off to the side that said "You have 5 posts in the thread." I'm guessing that were you? (when I refreshed it was gone)

 

[Moss]

I don't really care either way. The new links definately make it easier though, but it does kinda clutter up the page a little bit.

 

[Mikoyan]

It looks awful.

 

[Dell19]

Its useful when you want to view the sub forum and not the main forum.

 

[carlosMM]

good one.

there's not one subforum that shows for me on the user CP that I actually use, but still, a good idea!

 

[ainwood]

Yep - great. Combined with the forum-jump from within a thread, navigastion is a breeze!

 

[MarineCorps]

Its useful when you want to view the sub forum and not the main forum.

Just add it to your UserCP. I have a couple subforums on my UserCP.

They are rather ugly. I don't suppose users could have the optiopn to be able to choose on or off? Suprised me when I relized there where odd looking things in my UserCP.

 

[LLXerxes]

it's useful but isn't as nice

 

[Dease]

I think they're very ugly
for those with only 1 or 2 subforums it's fine since it doesn't add much but for those like C&C and DG, it's terrible, it adds 4 lines of links and just puts blank space in the other colums

maybe if you hover your mouse over the link to a main forum, there would be a little drop-down menu that would appear with a list of the sub forums, it would look better and would fufill the same purpose

 

[Tomoyo]

By the way, can you put the Never Ending Stories in front of the Succession Games, so that the Succession Game link is where it used to be?

 

[Gogf]

It's okay, but IMO it's better without. It looks too cuttered. Perhaps just removing the images would be good.

 

[ybbor]

it doesn't really matter to me because i never look at the main page, i just keep every forum i visit on my favorites list. however, i looked at the main page and i would say keep it

i voted indifferent

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Indifferent. Those forums I go to have no subforums (except for Other Games), and the rest of the forums I have shutter them.

 

[stormbind]

It looks a bit messy, but I have a serious suggestion to fix that and shall return later (4am is bad time to think).

 

[Emp.Napoleon]

You only have a link to the MSDG public forum, can we have one for the MSDG and ISDG High Councle forums too?

 

[Thunderfall]

You only have a link to the MSDG public forum, can we have one for the MSDG and ISDG High Councle forums too?

No, we don't want to show links to sub-sub-forums. That would be too much.

 

[stormbind]

I said earlier that, imo, the new links are a little messy. Here some DHTML that might clean it up a little without removing them.

It's nothing fancy. I'm happy to make any number of changes, but I didn't want to spend too long on something that would more than likely be discarded

<style>
.SUB_exp	{cursor:default;font-weight:bold;}
.SUB_links	{font-weight:normal;}
</style>

<script language="Javascript">
// Recommended: IE5, NS6
// Minimum: a web browser
// (c) Copyright 2004, stormbind@gmail.com


if (document.getElementById) window.onload=SUB_init;


function SUB_init(){
var SUB_match='Sub-Forums';
var SUB_img1='images/statusicon/subforum_new.gif';

var SUB_replace;
var content = document.getElementsByTagName('strong');



for (var c=0;c!=content.length;c++){
        if (content[c].innerHTML==SUB_match){
	content[c].style.display='none';

        SUB_replace = '<div class="SUB_exp" onclick="SUB_toggle(this);"><img src="'+SUB_img1+'"> '+SUB_match+'<div class="SUB_links" style="display:none;">'+content[c].parentNode.innerHTML+'</div></div>';
	content[c].parentNode.innerHTML=SUB_replace;
        }
}

} //SUB_init

function SUB_toggle(obj){

	if (obj.childNodes[2].style.display=='none'){
	obj.childNodes[2].style.display='block';
	}
	else obj.childNodes[2].style.display='none';

}

</script>

 

[Amenhotep7]

IT looks a little cluttered. Maybe what you can do is have it look like last time, but when you put your mouse over the forum link, a little drop-box comes down with links to the sub-forums. Like with the Quick Links...