WebCMS Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 (edited) URL by ID "blogs/blog/5" does not work but strangely vague/partial URL like "blogs/blog/5-z" works and resolves to full URL during page load. Content should load by ID in the URL and the remaining title/text should be optional in the slug (eg: /blogs/blog/5 that would resolve to the full URL during page load) but partial URL is weird. When we configure the blogs page to display as cards, it lists recent entries as cards on /blogs page but there is no unique collection of blogs in cards layout and no way to locate a blog if there are many blog entries giving a bad and clueless UX (this is similar to YouTube where they lack a unique list of our subscribed channels). This may be ok for sites with just one or two blogs like ic.com where you don’t allow members to create their own blogs and you have just Invision Community, Community Management and Recent Entries rendered on 3 separate tabs (custom page). But on general purpose forums where users can create their own blogs, this would be a challenge to locate and navigate specific blogs unless they know the precise URL to a blog because URLs by ID do not work in IC software. Currently, the unique list of blogs is available only when the blogs page is rendered as a list and when clicked on a blog, it goes to the entries page of that blog which are rendered as cards. If we look at vBulletin, blogs page displays a unique collection of cards and after clicking on a blog card, it takes us to that blog with a collection of its entries which can be rendered again as cards or list. When configured to render as cards, /blogs should render master-detail drill-down of unique collection of blogs in cards layout > collection of entries in cards layout when clicked on a blog. /blogs page should render a collection of "blogs" (not: entries) consistently and as expected - regardless of if the layout is configured as list or cards. You can render Member Blogs (unique collection of blogs), Subscribed Blogs, Recent Entries as separate tabs but unique collection of Blogs as cards should be the first/primary tab (or configurable). The unique collection of Blogs as cards should be sortable by name ascending/descending or by latest activity. Clicking on the cover photo on /blogs page rendered as cards/list should take us to the Blog page (not just clicking Blog title in the card). Most users are not tech-savvy to figure out to click on blog title in the card. Slideshow should accommodate at least 10 blog entries (configurable) for general purpose sites where members could create their own blogs and entries. How to sequence the slideshow of featured entries in a particular order like the "Welcome" entry to appear as 1st entry in the slideshow? How do we know which featured blog entries are going to be listed in the slideshow when more than allowed number of blog entries are featured? There should also be links to entry slides (1-10) to be able to click to randomly jump to any slide as expected behavior for a better UX instead of navigating through them one at a time using the left/right arrow icons (arrow icons and clickable links to each slide is the standard UI on any slideshow). Slideshow should always start from slide 1 or use the pinned entry as the 1st slide but it continues with last displayed slide from last blogs page exit (may be made configurable). Pinned blog entries are not showing on the top as pinned. For blog/event cover/card photos, it should accept URLs like YouTube thumbnails so we don’t have to upload image files separately to save on storage. Similar to - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SABYbyofWQ https://youtube-thumbnail-grabber.com https://www.youtubethumbnaildownloader.com We should be able to use this URL in cover photos - https://img.youtube.com/vi/4SABYbyofWQ/maxresdefault.jpg Tags and view counts are not displayed on the blog entry cards (view counts are shown on blog entry detail pages). Tagged blog entries are not featured in Similar Content widget and they cannot be discovered. Tags make content listed in Similar Content widget but tags don't work for blog entries to make them appear in Similar Content. Optionally use signatures on blogs and articles (configurable). Edited March 8 by WebCMS konon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebCMS Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 Would appreciate if someone confirms that these issues have been added to your bug model; otherwise, all that testing, recording issues and reporting issues would be for nothing. Afrodude 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Stridgen Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 8 hours ago, WebCMS said: Would appreciate if someone confirms that these issues have been added to your bug model; otherwise, all that testing, recording issues and reporting issues would be for nothing. This has been added as feedback as a suggestion to change. If you are reporting something you believe to be a bug, you should report this in our technical problems area. Feedback, while read, will not always be responded to. In the case of this one, it appears to be a suggestion for change in the software in multiple areas. I would highly suggest ensuring you are adding each suggestion as a separate item, as this appears to start with URLs, go to slideshows and end with tags With suggestions, we cannot guarantee that an item will be added or changed when you post. We can guarantee only that its read and may be considered. What we can certainly guarentee is if they are not posted, we wouldnt even know you wish to have them of course Afrodude 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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