Experimenting with hijacking the stickied thread functionality to track the most recent edition of our various article series. Check the left sidebar and tell me what you think :>
Edit cos no sidebar on threads:
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I really like it, but few thoughts:
(A) I don’t know which edition/how updated the articles are atm - I know it’s latest but how recent/was it just updated. When articles are in the normal feed it’s bumped up to the top, while it will be in the main feed, could be cool to have a [new] banner?
(B) hard to know when something has new comments bc again it’s not bumped up in the news feed. We would have to remember how many comments something had when we last checked it in order to know which threads to view again
(C) Might just be me, but would love some diversity in the over.gg icons next to threads/discussions. Maybe Picked Over/WorldRankings/Announcments can have unique icons different from normal discussion?
Overall, I really like it- helps keep them accessible, especially Picked Over which I have reason to visit a few times as well as World Rankings which I like to reference when I see discussion on a team i'm not as familiar with.
Now that this feature has had a bit of time to simmer, I'll say that I like the idea but I think it can be improved. I browse the site by clicking 'Recent Discussion' and opening all of the threads with unread posts in separate tabs. With this feature, the top threads on that page are the stickied ones even if the most recent post is days or weeks old. A decent compromise might be to emulate tftv's 'Upcoming Events' box. The posts there are highlighted by virtue of having their own main-page section, but the threads will only appear at the top of Recent Discussion if there has been a new post. In other words, rename the box something like 'Latest Coverage' and remove the sticky functionality.
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