Archive content importing in reverse order issues, & navigating that
Ning To Jamroom
Hi all,
I know this was mentioned before by someone, but the fact that SOME categories of my content (uploaded audio clips, members, and videos for examples) have imported to JR in the order of being listed oldest first, it produces various problems, especially in terms of navigating to find items.
First, let me say that for now on my non-live test site, I am seeing on my 'home' page the "Latest Profiles", "Latest Music", Latest Videos"- well, it's actually showing the OLDEST of all those items not the latest, starting from 2009. I do realize that as new items get added, they will be shown at top as 'first' and will eventually bump the old ones down out of easily seen position on the list. I know that.
HOWEVER, the problem then persisits in how to navigate:
For example, I see on my main page the sample module for "Latest Profiles". (in ning I could choose to sort that display of member thumbnails by Newest/Featured/or MostPopular...but whatever, let's just go with Latest for now). So... I click on either "All" or on the "Profiles" link on top navigation strip and it takes me to the general Profiles page which shows a nice grid (thanks for the grid!) of avatars which show the member names upon hovering. That's fine, but then....
at bottom all I get is a pagination choice of moving ONE page at a time back and forth, from page 1 to 189, using arrows. Considering that i;m getting brought first to my oldest 2009 members first, on page 1- this means when I actually migrate, my recently joined (but pre-JR-migration) memebers will have to click through 200 pages one at a time to page 200-something before they see themselves or others who may have joined recently (unless they've joined after migration to JR, in which case they'll be on page 1 or 3 etc).
This system will create a giant sandwich with all members in a strange sequence that doesn't follow and cannot be sorted into the normal logical latest-to-oldest pattern, the awkwardness is then compounded by the hobbled way of having to navigate one page at a time within that sandwich. The same is true in my Videos and when clicking on the "Latest Audio">"All" link. And in Audio.
Strangely, on the Main/Home page under the BLOG samples module, there is a pagination where you can punch in a page number rather than just going one page at a time by arrows...YET if you click on the "ALL" link for blogs from the main page, you then go to the blogs page and again get the one-page-at-a-time navigation through 100 pages of blogs. Oddly enough, my Blogs imported in the correct order- from most recent to oldest.
Group Comments have imported in correct most-recent to oldest sequence. But Group Discussions have the same oldest-first and pagination issue.
I guess this is really talking about two issues- the import order sequence, and the page/content navigation. But they work together hand in hand, thus I'm describing the issue together here.
I do remember the Ning team saying a year ago that when people imported their ning archive from 2.0 to 3.0 they would experience that the activity feed content would show up oldest first, in reverse order- but since activity is intended to be a daily renewing kind of thing that people don;t normally explore more than a couple weeks back in time, the new activity items would quickly bump the old stuff down and the issue would simply resolve itself that way. But content 'meat' is navigated by members in a more methodical search manner, so the sequence and navigation is best if somewhat logical and easy to use.
In ning we have an admin option to sort forum discussion threads oldest or newest first, but stuff like videos and music always naturally show up most recent first. JR does that too (my video added a couple days ago is show on top), but the imported archived content gets placed in reverse chronological order for SOME features.
Hope this is not all too confusing- thanks!
updated by @strumelia: 07/09/16 09:21:02AM
