Steven P. Administrators Posted February 17, 2008 Administrators Share Posted February 17, 2008 Some people may of noticed a change of layout in our comments page since yesterday. One of our coders, Simon360, has modified the comments page with a panel that can also be hidden and includes a new addition to our news submissions. On the left you will see other news items that are related. They will be the most recent related articles, and soon members will be able to search related articles in more detail (more on that at a later date). Anyway I hope you will enjoy this new feature, it makes it a whole lot easier also to identify the news staff as now their forum nickname is added as well. Opened panel Closed panel See it in action: https://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/02/16/n...geforce-8-cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wannes Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Great, I especially like the addition to see both, their forum and real name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corris Veteran Posted February 17, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 17, 2008 All these updates and going ons on Neowin. Have all these been hanging around just waiting to be implemented or have these all recently come about. Those poor guinea pigs that run the serves must be overworked! that or you've bought a couple more. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveLegg Developer Posted February 17, 2008 Developer Share Posted February 17, 2008 All these updates and going ons on Neowin.Have all these been hanging around just waiting to be implemented or have these all recently come about. Those poor guinea pigs that run the serves must be overworked! that or you've bought a couple more. :p We recently implemented a new system that makes it far easier for us to work on things on our development server and push them live right away, instead of waiting for a whole set of changes to be completed, and push them live all at once. In the past 3 weeks we've made over 100 changes to the main site alone, some small things like bug fixes, others much larger, like this new panel, and the front page / forum linkup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappy Veteran Posted February 17, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 17, 2008 Great, I especially like the addition to see both, their forum and real name. Yeah I think thats a good idea (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Veteran Posted February 17, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 17, 2008 In classic developer style, I'm going to say this: Clear your cache and cookies before saying it messes up the page :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abhishek kapoor Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 It is really nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian M. Veteran Posted February 17, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 17, 2008 Great work (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudEngineer Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 (edited) i like the idea behind it, needs a bit of tweaking imo at 1600x1050 the gaps either side of it take up too much space, it makes the page look weird to me since the space isn't being utilized :s Edited February 17, 2008 by .hasan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knife Party Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 ohh...neowin is getting all fancy.. :D good work mods :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Well done (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pretend Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 ohh...neowin is getting all fancy.. :Dgood work mods :D Hehe Good Idea, Good Work (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piggy Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 I'm just glad there's a hide button. :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Veteran Posted February 17, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 17, 2008 Looks fantastic! Thank you very much Neobond and other developers (simon360 especially, for this panel). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted February 18, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 18, 2008 It's too bulky. Now you have to open and close a "drawer" just to digg or set the quality level unless you want a big chunk of page space eaten up. And you forgot to mention that it includes a new ad box underneath it. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveLegg Developer Posted February 18, 2008 Developer Share Posted February 18, 2008 And you forgot to mention that it includes a new ad box underneath it. ;) That ad was on the page before, we simply moved it to below the bar at the top of the comments section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThalSwe Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Really like this addition. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Veteran Posted February 18, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 18, 2008 It's too bulky. Now you have to open and close a "drawer" just to digg or set the quality level unless you want a big chunk of page space eaten up. And you forgot to mention that it includes a new ad box underneath it. ;) Like Dave said above, yeah, the ad was there before. I can see what you mean with the bulk, but that's to accommodate the "Related news" area; there's not all that much we can do. Thanks for the feedback guys, I'm taking it into account while tweaking this a little bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Veteran Posted February 19, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 19, 2008 As you are taking user feedback into account, I would like to point out that I disagree with the poster who said it was too "bulky". I think it is the perfect size and includes everything needed. I especially love the "Share on Facebook", "Add to Windows Live", etc, links and images. The only thing that does annoy me slghtly is the fact that the Ad is underneath the new panel, but above the actual comments lol. I'm sure I will probably get used to it, but I think it might be best of the Ad was moved about the panel or sumwhere else...mainly, I just think it would be best if the panel was kept with the comments section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+StevoFC MVC Posted February 28, 2008 MVC Share Posted February 28, 2008 it's not very often but I submit news occasionally. What do we need to do to get the full name section filled in rather than it saying unknown? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 28, 2008 it's not very often but I submit news occasionally. What do we need to do to get the full name section filled in rather than it saying unknown? I believe that only works for staff members. People were complaining that they didn't know which staff member posted the story since we only showed the real names before. The forum name feature was put in to help people tie real names to forum names much more easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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