Axel Wers Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I am not satisfied with Linear+ removing in 3.2.x Lot of my members are glad when they can see the first post on every page in topic. This first posts says "what is the theme in topic" and it's prevent against off-topic. Another thing is, that we have NOT improved SEO in this way. Now meta destription is generated from the first post on each page. So when you have page forums.domain.tld/topic/1-blahblah/page__st__50 and first post on this page has content for exmaple "yeah, you're right" this content is generated as description in Google for that page. Little stupid description. Linear+ is prevention against similar descriptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DKiwi Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I vote to get rid of it. I doubt many people still use it. One of the main problems with IPB is it's getting cluttered. Removing things that hardly anyone uses any more makes sense to me. That's why so many people are raving about Xenforo because it's fairly clean looking and easier for people to figure out how to use. 3DKiwi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breadfan Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Xenforo because it's fairly clean looking and easier for people to figure out how to use. 3DKiwi As is every new product on the market. Let's see how clean and easy Xenforo will be after say, 7-8 years of developement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I honestly did not even know 3.1 had it so I thought it was already gone. I have been on sites that use linear as the default topic view and I found it annoying to read topics that way. How ever the idea of showing the first topic on every page is not a bad idea and for the reason you mentioned. Kind of makes the forum work more like a blog in that the first post becomes the blog entry and every thing after that is a comment for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.time Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I say let it die. If your SEO theory were that significant, I think IPS or even another forum software would have considered it years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aisha Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Then don't upgrade. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahLion Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I used this also,because when you have bunch pages no one want to click and go back to the first post to see what it's all about so i'm lil not happy with this being remove in the other version...oh well C'est la vie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Linear+ is already gone in 3.2. When we blog about stuff, it's usually stuff that is already done, not stuff we plan to do in the future. Very very few people use this post layout (along with outline mode). So much so, in fact, that we get critical bugs reported to us regarding these areas after 3 or 4 versions have been released, simply because no one uses them. We want to focus our efforts on functionality that the majority of our community wants, not features that a small minority may have a use for. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin A. Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I'm sure this feature can be brought back as a hook, if the demand is there :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I'm sure this feature can be brought back as a hook, if the demand is there :) I say if some one makes it a hook call it blog view. I mean that is what it looks like if you show the first post on every page. As I mentioned above it is like a blog post and the replies are like the comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KVentz Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Linear+ is already gone in 3.2. Al last! :thumbsup: :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat B Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 FYI, google objects to duplicate meta descriptions (check webmaster tools some time) so linear+ is most assuredly not "good for SEO". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 FYI, google objects to duplicate meta descriptions (check webmaster tools some time) so linear+ is most assuredly not "good for SEO". Indeed I know that very well, which is why I have an issue with the way IP.content is set up but that is another topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axel Wers Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share Posted January 10, 2011 FYI, google objects to duplicate meta descriptions (check webmaster tools some time) so linear+ is most assuredly not "good for SEO". I know about this, better solution than have decription like "haha it's funny" what is not related to topic's theme and it's very short (what is the same issue for Google like duplicate description, FYI). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~sullengirl~ Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 :( Just saw it's gone :( Now I'll have to forbid posting in sections where it's important that the first post is always visible. Not good. Not good at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyF Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 [img] ' alt='' class='ipsImage' >[/img] Just saw it's gone [img] ' alt='' class='ipsImage' >[/img] Now I'll have to forbid posting in sections where it's important that the first post is always visible. Not good. Not good at all. I dare say someone (not me unfortunately) could write a hook to do something very similar, ie always display the first post in a topic above the rest, not "quite" the same but that may be even tidier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCWT Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Would the linear and outline urls get 301 redirected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axel Wers Posted July 25, 2011 Author Share Posted July 25, 2011 Don't worry about this, Linear+, Outline and Standard modes have nothing with urls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripp★ Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 We want to focus our efforts on functionality that the majority of our community wants, not features that a small minority may have a use for. [img] [/img] To be honest, I think that's an absolutely disgusting thing to say. If that's the case then what the hell is wrong with leaving it as an option? If people don't want it, they don't activate it. Pure and simple. If they do want it, they have the option to use it, instead of having a feature taken off of them, that IS useful for certain forums. I think it should of been an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Seven- Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 Any luck on this? can someone create a hook for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard.C Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 Any luck on this? can someone create a hook for this? as this is the feedback forum, i doubt it. Maybe make a request for someone to make a hook in the mod requests forum here: http://community.invisionpower.com/forum/420-modification-requests/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
• Jay • Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Removing things that hardly anyone uses any more makes sense to me. How do you know hardly anyone uses it anymore? Did you poll all of the IPS customers? That seems to be the standard snarky comeback to blanket statements. Linear + is great for keeping threads on topic, and quite frankly it's more useful as a makeshift blog than IP.Blog is, as sad as that may be. I'd love to see a hook to get this functionality returned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DKiwi Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 How do you know hardly anyone uses it anymore? Did you poll all of the IPS customers? That seems to be the standard snarky comeback to blanket statements. Because I have a lot of members and not one member has complained. I don't consider my post was snarky. Good luck getting it back. I think you're in for an uphill battle. 3DKiwi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aisha Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Wait so all Linear+ does is show the first post of a thread on every page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Good luck getting it back. I think you're in for an uphill battle. Not really. I had looked into creating a hook to return the functionality and the only thing stopping me is lacking the knowledge to perform a couple of specific functions. Neither of those dealing with actually getting the first post of the topic to display on each page. If anything, that would be the easy part. If I knew how to do a couple of other things, I'd be debugging that sucker right now to make available for people to use. I happen to like it myself, since you can lose track of what a topic was originally about when you're looking at the third or fourth page and you've been active in dozens of other topics. Wait so all Linear+ does is show the first post of a thread on every page? It shows the first post of the topic on each page, with a small break before showing the rest of the topic underneath it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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