Pavel Chernitsky Posted March 11, 2021 Posted March 11, 2021 I think the "highlight posts" is an EXTREMELY useful feature on multiple levels. Firstly, it draws users' gaze to where you want it. It allows you to give different groups' posts more "gravitas" so to speak, making these posts more easily accepted as "legit". Lastly (from what I can think of), it can be used as a monetization tool to get people to "pay for cosmetics" and be more unique, just like in MMOs. BUTT (LOL), the fact we can only set one color per theme across all the groups who get this is kind of a downer, because it forces me to weigh very carefully to whom do I activate this feature so that the highlighted posts don't just become like banner ads and just disappear. Moreover, all these groups are important, but they aren't all important in the same way (notice how I didn't say "amount" 😄). I'd suggest adding a collapsible area in the groups settings (like we have with the "Can edit own content" customise button . as seen in screenshot 1 and 2) where when you enable the "highlight replies" toggle, it opens up a few new lines with the names of the themes you have installed, and you can edit that group's highlight color from right there ('mockup1'). at the same time, something parallel can be added to the theme "front-end colors" tab, where we'll have multiple lines of "Highlighted Post Border" and "Highlighted Post Background" with the groups names attached to each ('Mockup2'). Note that on both mockups I intentionally used unrealistically long theme/groups names in order to show this shouldn't be an issue. As a side note - I honestly think we can get rid of "Highlighted Post Border" altogether since it's being swallowed by the larger area of the "background" color and isn't really adding much. Yes, I know that if you have 5-6-7-15 groups who get their replies highlighted it can amount to quite a bit of extra lines to scroll through in the theme settings, but I think it's well worth it. What do you guys (and girls) think? Screenshot 1 Screenshot 2 Mockup 1 Mockup 2
Pavel Chernitsky Posted March 16, 2021 Author Posted March 16, 2021 -Puts 2-3 hours into writing a post and creating mockups. -Doesn't even get a "you're stupid and your idea is stupid". Not exactly what I'd call "letting your community members feel valued".
Jordan Miller Posted March 16, 2021 Posted March 16, 2021 Hey @Pavel Chernitsky, sorry for the late reply on this one. It's definitely not a stupid idea. To the contrary! I like it a lot. I'll pass the idea along to the team and when I get an update I can circle back. In the mean time, I'm curious if anyone else would be interested in this as well?
Pavel Chernitsky Posted March 16, 2021 Author Posted March 16, 2021 26 minutes ago, Jordan Invision said: I'm curious if anyone else would be interested in this as well? That's exactly what I was trying to figure out. This wasn't a "BWaaaaaaa nobody likes me!!!" kind of reply 🤣
Morrigan Posted March 16, 2021 Posted March 16, 2021 (edited) Meh. I do this already on a larger scale. I DO! However, think that a group specific flag should be on each post. Like I do to attain this so you can theme it without editing the template itself. Edited March 16, 2021 by Morrigan
Pavel Chernitsky Posted March 16, 2021 Author Posted March 16, 2021 It is a lot larger scale, I was thinking of something more subtle. I'll get literally torched with actual fire by our members if I do anything even remotely as colorful and full of shapes as this 😂
Morrigan Posted March 16, 2021 Posted March 16, 2021 (edited) 41 minutes ago, Pavel Chernitsky said: It is a lot larger scale, I was thinking of something more subtle. I'll get literally torched with actual fire by our members if I do anything even remotely as colorful and full of shapes as this 😂 And it works on dark and light themes. Me and my members are just a colorful bunch. I'm sure I blind @Rikki every time he see's my site though. Edited March 16, 2021 by Morrigan
bfarber Posted March 17, 2021 Posted March 17, 2021 22 hours ago, Jordan Invision said: In the mean time, I'm curious if anyone else would be interested in this as well? I saw this topic and was waiting to see the same thing basically. Chris Anderson and Jordan Miller 2
Morrigan Posted March 17, 2021 Posted March 17, 2021 @bfarber I don't think it necessarily needs to be a setting, I don't know a lot of people that will use it as I do. But I think that having a class that is group_# or something on the post wrapper by default would both allow for the easy CSS possibility and not be over the top.
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