Forum Activity for @claygordon

UX observation - keep tag cloud context

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I will add this right away, thanks!

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updated by @claygordon: 01/21/15 08:07:53PM

Have to move off Arvixe NOW -- Linode? Digital Ocean? Other?

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Okay. So I am moved over to a more expensive server (going from like $5/mo to $30/mo but then I was paying Ning $30/mo so that's a wash except for Mailgun usage).

I am still waiting for DNS to propagate, but using it at a temporary URL until then, even with developer mode on, and the speed increase is dramatic. It's definitely usable now. I think there is still room for improvement, but I am going to let the community settle in for a while and get used to the new layout and the way the content is presented before switching to a new server.

My focus between now and then is fixing usability issues and ironing out small bugs and then introducing new features. Tops on my list are enabling domain mapping (I have some ideas about how to do this with URLs that I own but am not otherwise using - giving them a home and personalities within this community), then enabling selling digital and physical items. These are subscription membership features that should drive incremental passive revenue.

One of my most prolific members ... missing almost all content?

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Brian -

There are so many other things going on here that I am going to handle it a different way.

What I forgot (and need to keep reminding myself - and let my members know) is that what shows up on their Profile page is stuff the've created and/or participated in.

This is what I did not realize about Brad's participation in the community. He has not contributed image 1 and most of his contributions have been as comments on other people's posts, not forums or blogs he's started.

Interesting analysis all by itself, which suggests an interesting profiling routine to chart out patterns of participation.

But that's for a different discussion.

Help with a profile page setting for Groups TAB

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This is also an issue for me and I need to remind myself of the "me" focus of the profile page. The stuff that shows up here is ONLY stuff that I have created and/or contributed to.

I have put a Groups tab in the top nav which means that anyone can visit the page where all the groups are listed.

The form of that URL is: http://www.yourdomain/group

On the Profile Page, the form of the URL is http://www.yourdomain/membername/group

Strumelia - if you can modify the menu profile item (not sure you can - it's inside a loop that tests to see if a module is active but Brian has shown me how to use a foreach with a nested if to test and break out and that may work here) -- you'd want to replace the

http://www.yourdomain/membername/group
with
http://www.yourdomain/group


Another way to address the issue - and this may not work if you have hundreds or thousands of groups, my community only has about 20 and I like to "feature" top groups - would be to construct a sub-menu to the groups menu in the top nav that lists the groups you want to highlight by providing a shortcut to them. Like what happens now under ACP and your member name.

comment back (tip)

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Brian and Strumelia -

I am late to this discussion as I have had my hands full elsewhere.

Exactly where on the page does the Comment Back appear, and where in the code do I want to insert it to make it appear there?

TIA.

UX observation - keep tag cloud context

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Michael -

This does address the issue of making it very clear what a visitor is looking at:

1) items that are tagged with a particular tag
2) the entire tag cloud

Pagination is another issue outside the scope of my original request but it obviously needs to be taken care of.

When this is done, I would like to add the "All" to the tag cloud header on my home page so having that code fragment would be really helpful.

Profile Page Latest Forums - changing

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QUESTION ONE:

The page in question is currently at <a href="http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/clay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/clay</a>
When DNS propagates it will appear at <a href="http://www.thechocolatelife.com/clay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.thechocolatelife.com/clay</a>

On the Profile page, the content block header says "Latest Forums" and the text for this comes from the following lines of code, which are found in the skin's profile_index_discussion.tpl file:

[code]
<div class="title">
<h3>{jrCore_lang skin=$_conf.jrCore_active_skin id="20" default="Latest"} {jrCore_lang skin=$_conf.jrCore_active_skin id="19" default="Discussions"}</h3>   <span class="normal"><a href="{$jamroom_url}/{$profile_url}/{jrCore_module_url module="jrGroup"}">{jrCore_lang skin=$_conf.jrCore_active_skin id="30" default="All"}</a></span>
</div>

So, the phrase "Latest Forums" is a concat of two calls to
[code]
jrCore_lang skin=$_conf.jrCore_active_skin id="xx" default="sometext"
[/code]

I have already changed the text of ID 19 to "Forums" so that appears in my top nav so I can't change the text in the language file.

From my prior fiddling, I seem to remember that I can't just replace the default text here to some other text. To make it say something like "Group Discussions" I just replace everything with the h3 tags in the title div:

[code]
<h3>Group Discussions</h3>
[/code]

QUESTION TWO:

If you look inside the content block for the Latest Forums on my profile page you will see some entries from my GROUP's Discussions.

The display order on this is order_by="_updated desc":

[code]
<div class="block_content">
<div class="item item-scroll">
{jrCore_list module="jrGroupDiscuss" order_by="_updated desc" profile_id=$_profile_id template=$pd_tpl}
</div>
</div>
[/code]

What does updated mean? The last time a comment was added? If that's the case, then what's being displayed is not correct (last updated in September 2014?) and I know that there is at least one group discussion (in the DIY group) that I have commented on within the past 48 hours.

I want to make sure that this list is updated to reflect the most recently updated discussions in Group Discussions.

QUESTION THREE:

I have already modified the actual description itself to include the last updated:

[code]
<br><small><a href="{$jamroom_url}/{$item.original_profile_url}">@{$item.original_profile_url}</a> - {jrCore_lang skin=$_conf.jrCore_active_skin id="37" default="Comments"}: {$item.discuss_comment_count|default:0}; Last updated on {$item._updated|jrCore_format_time:false:"%F"}; Created {$item._created|jrCore_format_time:false:"relative"}</small>
[/code]

What I would like to do know is include the name of the group the entry was posted in, and it would go in the line above the @name. (Posted in: Group Name) with Group Name being an active link.. I have tried a number of different constructions but I can't format the selection of the group name properly and get it to work.
updated by @claygordon: 03/04/15 11:13:24PM

One of my most prolific members ... missing almost all content?

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Paul, it turns out I was thinking the same thing and the stuff is there in the main site forums, not the group forums.

Not sure how I "disable profile forums in all but the 'site profile' quota" but that sounds like it might work. I don't have a site profile quota.

One of my most prolific members ... missing almost all content?

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Brian -

Paul and I will be looking into this today. I just noticed it last night (can't check all 10,000 members' records) when someone put a comment on the member profile.

I have NOT done anything with that profile. They must be in the right quota because if were not I would not even be seeing the modules listed in the profile's navigation menu bar.

Missing profile photo on private note

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Sounds good all the way around.