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#9 Posting announcements to Bulletin Board
One of the 'issues' with running a busy forum/BB based site
is that often visitors to the site miss the recent
announcements. Some people enter the site directly at the
forum.
So they see the announcements, it would be useful if there
was some linkup with the announcements module to pick up
the latest announcements and post them in the forum/BB.
This is common on more forum led websites like vBulletin
where the CMS has developed on from the forum.
I suspect you'd need to lock the thread leaving a pointer to
the original, full story.
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I could detect if the announcements module was installed and
have a setting for displaying the top X announcements.
Scheduling for 0.5.0.
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I'm taking this off my schedule for now until next year.
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I'm not sure how feasible this will be. I believe that the
phpWS core will start to use the "article manager" module
for announcements and abandon the "announce" mod.
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Let's just hang on a bit and see what happens. Maybe it's
something that should go into whatever module does the
announcement/article rather than the BB mod?
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There's the flipside of this RFE as well.
Occasionally a forum poster will post some news in a forum thread that
would make a good article or news story. Perhaps there should be a
'make this post an announcement' link for admin users. That saves a load
of cut and pasting and keeps the user attribution.
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Isn't this what Admins and Moderators are for?
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If users are just going to the Forum page and not looking at
the News/Annoucement pages, maybe there is a reason for
their lack of interest. I also assume the the site admins
would link over to the Forums anything they think might be
relevant to the mostly Forum posters. Oh, yeah and from
Forum to News too.
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Yes, you could do it all manually but hey, you know, computers are our
servants not our masters.
IME of running a busy site - 3 million page views a month, mostly forum
pages - users who spend a lot of time in the forum gabbing miss the
news stories and often need a helping hand to get them to visit other
parts of the site so any method of prompting them to go look helps
immensely. I experimented with it for a while by manually linking news
stories from the forum and IME you get 30% more story reads. So I
think it's useful to automatically publish new news stories as they happen
in the forum.
It'd also be useful the other way round. On MacNN.com they sometimes
publish a summary of interesting threads happening in the forums in
their news list. That's a manual extraction by the newsdesk editor
however. I know it's prompted me to read the forum multiple times when
I usually don't at all, especially as it's appeared in my RSS news
aggregator too.