Dreadknux Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 In IPB3, the status system was, for the most part, self-contained within its sidebar widget. The widget would show the latest statuses and a couple of comments underneath each, with an Ajax link to add the rest of the comments and a simple form to add a comment underneath. While the IPB3 system was simplistic and mildly buggy (accented characters breaking Ajax, anyone?) it was really efficient from a UX standpoint. When we updated to IPS4, one of the biggest complaints we had from our users was that statuses were treated almost like topics - you can see (part of) the status itself, but you have to load a new page to see comments or reply. For our users who were used to doing everything through the homepage, it was a big difference, and it massively reduced the volume of status activity on our board. My suggestion is to code in some way to interact with a status directly from the widget, without having to load a new page. We developed a plugin to do this in the simplest way (not saying it's the right way!) we could - it converts the permalinks under the status into an Ajax ipsDialog link to the single status. It's a bit messy, and there's a hack in the single status page that I think reuses official code, so I don't think I can repost it, but it works well for us. I think something like this would be a really good core feature for IPS, and (at least the way we did it) it's not difficult to implement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Lyons Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 [This is somewhat off topic but it's a fix for some of your problems. I'm unsure IPS will change their status updates anytime soon.] I highly suggest the Advanced Status Updates Widget. For me at least, it helped very much with some of the default's issues. It's a bit odd to pay $15 just for statuses, but it's worth it, in my honest opinion. If you wanna see it live- here's my forums and it's currently installed there! It adds likes, replies are much easier, and a lot of it is done just on the page with the widget itself. It looks a lot better and embeds work in it too - images, links, media embeds [YouTube, etc]. Also, it Paginates statuses! [When more than whatever you set to show are made, it makes more pages with the rest]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreadknux Posted March 17, 2016 Author Share Posted March 17, 2016 Ah didn't realise there was already a plugin option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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