I've just been introduced to a new forum feature implemented on the
VillianRom forums that I think should be part of the bread and butter of any forum.
A twitter style mention notification system.
The concept is that if someone typed @Nimrod in a post, the forum would notify me that I've been mentioned in said post. Thus ensuring that I never miss any posts that I should be replying to.
(Not that anyone ever asks for my opinion, they just get it )
A quick look at the SMF mod's page didn't yield any fruit but then I'm not sure what to search for
Bold thread titles for threads with unread postsI'm sure that on the old forum I could quickly see which threads in a forum had new posts as they were shown in bold in the forum listing. Would it be possible to replicate that here ?
---
@Nexus,
There is a lot of wasted space in a Gmail style threaded conversation layout.
What (imo) would be great, is to utilise floating/collapsing bars for the structure navigation so that the entire screen can still be used to render the thread.
i.e.
Mouse over to left edge, floating bar (vertical orientation) with all forum titles appears.
Mouse over title, additional (child) bar appears with sub-forums titles at top and then thread titles below.
Recursive handling of mouse over sub-forums creating child bars...
Mouse click on thread hides all bars and shows thread.
But I'm too lazy to code it up, I'm happier using whatever is given to me