Colonel_mortis Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 The 4.3-style announcements look really nice, and a big improvement over the earlier versions. However, I still have a couple of issues with them that I think would be super easy to solve and would make them much better: Allow announcements without a description, or that link somewhere else. Spoiler alert: you want this too - on this site you have a commented out banner which is exactly what I'm asking for: (but with the option of it just being a link to somewhere else too). This would be used for things that don't need any more content, like "Site maintenance tomorrow", and references to other areas, such as the rules. Make the announcement areas more consistent. Currently the top announcement has a "Read more" link, the contentTop announcement is all a link and has a bullhorn at the start, and the sidebar announcement has a bullhorn at the top of the block, each announcement is entirely a link, and has a random (i) icon at the end. This is not great UX. The announcement sidebar block doesn't show unless you have another block in the sidebar - there's no way to display just the announcements. While it's useful to be able to not show announcements or the sidebar in general on a page, I could plausibly want to show the announcements and nothing else. It's also pretty poor UX when adding blocks, because the announcements don't show up/disappear until you refresh the page. Fix these (especially the first - I can tweak the second in themes and the third doesn't actually matter to me personally) and I will be very happy with announcements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMXII Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Please allow to display the full announcement text (no need to click a link to "open" the announcement) Please add an option to make any announcement dismissable/permanent Please add an option to schedule announcements Please add an option to display announcements on certain pages only (e.g. only sub-forum 1 and sub-forum 2) Please add option to display announcements based on conditions (e.g. user is in usergroup X and has made X posts or user has registered X days ago...) Please add a custom block that is specifically used to display announcements and allow us to place it anywhere across the Suite ... Announcements have a lot of room for improvements, but I doubt we will see much of this in the current branch. Maybe in IPS 5... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meddysong Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 And also Make announcements translatable, please. For some of us, forcing English (or another chief language) on users of a second language is highly problematic. There are situations in certain countries where languages must be given equal prominence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mz_ Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 This! Is there no way just to display what I type in without clicking on a link? IMO, I like that better or should at least be an option! Please allow to display the full announcement text (no need to click a link to "open" the announcement) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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