In v4, we could recommend posts in a topic. A summary would appear at the top of all pages in that topic, along with a comment (optional) and a link to the recommended post. This allowed members to quickly find the information they were looking for when opening any page of the topic.

In v5, it appears that recommended posts have been deprecated. I can no longer find a way to recommend a post, and my existing recommendations no longer include a link to the post. I also can't edit or remove the "Featured Replies".

I now have messages at the top of topics referring to useful posts, but with no indication of where those posts are located or even which page they are on.

Same behavior with the default IPS theme, no customizations.

Edited June 10Jun 10 by David N.

On version 5 this works differently. Only items where its been selected to show them above all other replies will show it up in that area

The issue is that the link to the post (that was there in v4) is now missing in v5. We see a summary of the post with a comment on why it was recommended, with no way to access that post.

Also while the recommended post is now under a header "Featured Replies", that post is not featured.

Edited June 11Jun 11 by David N.

Sorry, Im a little confused as to what you mean there. Featuring a post does not remove the post from its topic in any way, whether its shown at the top or otherwise. If you believe that has happened, I would need an example of this to look at. It may well be best to submit a ticket on this if so

My apologies if I wasn't clear. No posts were removed, no problem on that end.

This isn't about featured posts, but about recommended posts. All the posts I have recommended while I was in v4 are now listed at the top of the topic under the header "Featured Replies" even though they are not featured - which is okay I guess, at least this is not a problem right now.

The problem is that if you look at my screenshot, you can see that there's no link to the post. The full post is somewhere in one of the pages of the topic (I ended up finding it so I know it's there). In v4 there used to be a button that you could click to go to that post, now in v5 that button is gone.

Here's a mockup of the missing button:

Edited June 11Jun 11 by David N.

Featured and recommended in v5 are now the same thing. So anything that was recommended, would indeed now be featured and shown at the top.

You are correct in that there isnt a large link to the post itself. It simply shows the content of that post. Please feel free to post a feedback item if you would like to see a change to that. However if you click the datestamp on it, then it will take you to the post. Its still present, just not where you think

1 hour ago, Marc said:

Featured and recommended in v5 are now the same thing. So anything that was recommended, would indeed now be featured and shown at the top.

Ok, that's fine.

1 hour ago, Marc said:

You are correct in that there isnt a large link to the post itself. It simply shows the content of that post. Please feel free to post a feedback item if you would like to see a change to that. However if you click the datestamp on it, then it will take you to the post. Its still present, just not where you think

Oh wow, that's so unconspicuous that I completely overlooked it, as I'm sure most users would. Note that it doesn't show the whole content, only a short summary, so yes, I'll provide feedback to add a large button like we had in v4.

There's another issue though, I can't find anyway to un-recommend the post? I tried to feature it, then unfeature it, but it's still there. The way it looks now is quite awkward IMO and I'd rather remove them, but I can't see how to.

Thanks!

It would be unfeature you would be using.

9 minutes ago, Marc said:

It would be unfeature you would be using.

There's no "unfeature" choice since the posts are not featured. Instead there's a "feature" choice. So I can feature the post, then unfeature it, but the recommended post still appears as a "Featured reply" at the top of the topic. I can send you links if you want?

I would advise starting a ticket so we can freely share links back and forth on this one

Thank you, I'll do that.