Forum Suggestion

[Sile]

Hi all,

This is a 'srs' post, I just didn't feel there was an appropriate place to put it.

I've noticed that any comments Dev's make in threads can be easily missed if someone posts after them. There is no indication that a dev has posted in a thread from the main forum view.

The warcraft forums have a little blue icon that sits next to a thread title. This just lets everyone know that a dev has infact, posted inside the thread.
( sorry to reference warcraft for all of the haters :eek: )

I had this thought yesterday as Medierra posted a comment in a thread and I replied straight away, knocking his name from the forum view. Some people might not bother viewing that thread because they see my name and think it's just another reply. Little do they know that Medierra just said something profound!

So, any way we can get a visual cue (ala blizzard style) to help us see which threads Devs have posted in?

[yerkyerk]

I would like to see this as well.

Heroes of Newerth forum also works in this way; http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/forumdisplay.php?f=115

Threads where devs have posted have the company logo next to them. And you can skim through the dev posts in those thread by clicking on the logo.

[Sile]

I would like to see this as well.

Heroes of Newerth forum also works in this way; http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/forumdisplay.php?f=115

Threads where devs have posted have the company logo next to them. And you can skim through the dev posts in those thread by clicking on the logo.

That would be a good idea. Being able to click the logo and go straight to the dev posts.

[ASYLUM101]

Not to knock your idea, but would you really want the devs ( who are also the maintainers of the site and forums ) to stop working on the game to add a nifty feature to the forums? Don't get me wrong, I like the idea, I just don't see how useful it could be.

[Rhis]

Maybe there is a vb plugin that will do it. Now go to it and find out!

[alexei]

Yeah, I also like this idea, if only could be done by forum moderator. I don't want Crate time to be wasted on thing like this. But I absolutely like this idea. Do it if it's possible.

For the time being, you might want some tips (for those who don't know).
- If you want to know when dev have post a new comment in any thread, just click on his name in the thread, then a drop-down list come out. Click the 'Find all post by Rhis (http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=2)' (if it's Rhis) and you could see the latest post by him until the oldest.
- Bookmark that page so you could check it anytime, everyday or so.

I hope this will help.

[Sile]

Not to knock your idea, but would you really want the devs ( who are also the maintainers of the site and forums ) to stop working on the game to add a nifty feature to the forums? Don't get me wrong, I like the idea, I just don't see how useful it could be.

True, but the game has been set back further than first thought due to added features and more detail etc.. I'm sure an extra hour is fine in the scheme of things.

But if there's no time, there's no time. I just thought it would be a good idea.

I'll have a hunt around myself and see how it's done.

[Sile]

I don't know much about coding websites but I found this from viewing the source of the worldofwarcraft forums..

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Just to narrow it down, it appears this bit of code below has something to do with what I was talking about

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I think all of their devs/community managers get a class attached to their names or something like that, so whenever they post, it puts a blizz.gif icon in the ROW where the other icons go like "sticky" or "moved".

I'll keep hunting around to see if there's an easy plug in or something.

Thread Source (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?forumId=10001&sid=1)

[alexei]

I don't think you could figure it out from live source code. Code are dynamic. They change according to event. You had to have plugin. That code you're referring is just CSS, which is page style.

[Renevent]

That's not even source code...that's simply the 'source' of the outputted html.

The logic to determine if a mod/dev has posted was done on Blizzard's server and prior to generating the html your web browser consumes.

[Sile]

As I said, I'm no coding expert. Just trying to find out how it can be done. By all means, if people know a lot more about this than me.. please speak up. :)

[Sile]

pbWOW (http://pbwow.com/modx/bluepost_mod.xml)

That's a mod for phpBB.. I don't understand enough about code to see what's going on. Maybe somone who's tuned into code could perhaps garner a bit of an idea how it could be used for vBulletin?

[yerkyerk]

I believe this is the plug-in you're looking for:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=223709

[Father Squid]

It certainly seems like that is the add-on for vb that you are looking for... at least from what is being described here...

[SoulSeekkor]

Looks about right, I wouldn't mind playing around with it even...if only I could download it. :/

Soul

[Sile]

Didn't want to reply to Yerks post yesterday and knock his name from the thread.. but yes, this plugin looks like it's what we need.