[Paul]

Similar to the News forum way over on .com I think a separate forum to discuss the Articles and Polls on the AN frontpage and Think Secret would be a nice addition. Like .com the articles should be fully duplicated to the forum in the form of a new thread. Would this be possible? Is it under development? Or is it too... ummm whats the word, Kasper-esque?


This would give both the front page more traffic as well as the forums (assuming Nick of TS fame would be down with putting a comment link on each of his articles, and the idea in general)...

so, possible?

[SonOfSylvanus]

Originally Posted by Paul Similar to the News forum way over on .com I think a separate forum to discuss the Articles and Polls on the AN frontpage and Think Secret would be a nice addition. Like .com the articles should be fully duplicated to the forum in the form of a new thread. Would this be possible? Is it under development? Or is it too... ummm whats the word, Kasper-esque? This would give both the front page more traffic as well as the forums (assuming Nick of TS fame would be down with putting a comment link on each of his articles, and the idea in general)... so, possible?

Me likey

[Paul]

oh, and maybe a link back to think secret on the top left instead of "community" (unless you have some other plan for this button)
while you are messing around up there, it would really be a bit easier if the "forums" link was on the far left and "home" in the middle...
but thats just a personal preference, probably won't really make things any easier...

[thegelding]

i thought that community would link to photos of the people here...i know we get those in user profile, but one spot with all the photos with names would be nice

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[Spart]

I think we should have a link to ThinkSecret somewhere up there regardless...it shouldn't be a one-way street. People might come here from other places — AppleInsider.com, for example — and they wouldn't know without digging up some old threads or looking at where articles in the News forum come from (if that idea even gets implemented) that we are related to ThinkSecret in any way.

And besides, ThinkSecret is, of course, the boss of all rumor sites.

[Paul]

so what's the official word on this?

[drewprops]

Bird used to be the word, but then it was Thunderbird, and for awhile it was Grease.

[Paul]

I'm going to dig this up again because I really want to comment on the two new articles that Moogs and thegelding have written, but I don't want to start my own thread about them (feels dirty).

Also, now that AI has improved their "news filing" system by sorting stories by forum I really think a ThinkSecret tie-in would be an awesome idea. Each thread would have a prefix like TS: or something similar and could be put into the appropriate forum.

Has anyone talked to Nick about something like this?

[thuh Freak]

whoa i didn't know they'd written stories. funny stuff. gj geld + moogs.

[Gargoyle]

Originally Posted by thuh Freak whoa i didn't know they'd written stories. funny stuff. gj geld + moogs.

For this kind of reason, i don't think the full story should be posted in the forum. Instead the first post can contain a link to the news article in the main site, and the news article can contain a link back to the forum article!

Damn, I am digging myself a hole... You know who going to get asked to look into that!

[LoCash]

Hey Gargoyle, why don't you take a look at implementing that in Mambo?

And we're going to give a link back to Nick and ThinkSecret. In fact, we've already chosen a place for the link to live. Unfortunately, that space is currently occupied, and we'll have to wait for vacancy. It's not that we don't want to do this, it's that we want to do it right. Currently the only thing really preventing that template update from happening is a nasty JavaScript drop down menu bug that NOBODY seems to want to fix. I've attempted to tackle it several times and have failed.

Lastly, I don't know how Nick would feel about tossing articles into a forum. It's something I will certainly ask him. I'm thinking we would duplicate the intro text, or first paragraph or so, of an article and provide a link back to the full thing. That should keep Nick happy, and encourage people to visit his site, as well as ours when we duplicate the into text to our own articles here.

It will take a Mambo hack, and Gargoyle sounded like he just volunteered

[LoCash]

By the way, if somebody would like to volunteer tracking down the JavaScript drop down menu problem on the test server, please PM me. It would get the new templates online that much quicker, and everyone that currently has access to the test server has done a wonderful job in avoiding doing any actual work on the bloody templates.

We know it's not a JavaScript problem, it's a CSS or XHTML problem. The JavaScript works just perfectly fine, but the drop down menus are being drawn about 100 pixels lower than they should be, and we don't know what we changed.