➡ Poll Time: Article section related

[CarpCharacin]

How about now? I just made it bigger.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I know I'm sure we all imagine things are way easier to fix than they actually are. And you can't please everyone!


This must be the part you plan to change, but right now, when you click on "create article" I wish this black box wasn't the first thing that gets displayed:
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But this particular page showed up once, I'm not sure how and I wasn't able to find it again, but it was a full page, not a tiny black box:
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So... I'm wondering if something like that page (instead of the black box) could be what showed up after clicking "create article" except modified as the disclosure page... where you read the rules in each section first, click one of the links, then choose the category on the following page:
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maybe that could help folks stay on track and have a lot less Mods moving stuff around.

I really like this idea!!

You will be there for hours for days!

nahh, I just skimmed the first page or two to see what she meant lol

 

[feathermaid]

People aren't looking for tiny print, they're looking for buttons to click. Doesn't matter if they're new or old members or how many posts they have.

The blue button is all that matters and it's what everyone sees, and it hardly matters that the button says "Create Article"... Article, Question, Forum all might all mean the same thing to some folks. You need a full page with BIG writing that says what section they're in or about to go to and a bigger link button to send them back to the forums if they have a question. The warning or reminder text should be in red, people notice red.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Keep in mind, there will never be a way to 100% eliminate peeps being confused on how / where to post. We'll always have to do some level of clean-up.

Also, we want to make sure that we're not creating a negative user experience for the other 99% of visitors to that section of the site to accommodate the 1% that are confused.

Like most of this interwebs stuff, there are tricky balances and trade-offs.

 

[Kiki]

Keep in mind, there will never be a way to 100% eliminate peeps being confused on how / where to post. We'll always have to do some level of clean-up.

Also, we want to make sure that we're not creating a negative user experience for the other 99% of visitors to that section of the site to accommodate the 1% that are confused.

Like most of this interwebs stuff, there are tricky balances and trade-offs.

I really would like to have a members page article search party...to find some learning center worthy articles.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I really would like to have a members page article search party...to find some learning center worthy articles.

Good idea!! That could be fun.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Yup!

We really should come up with a clean template for which peeps can follow for the "perfect article". For example:

1. Title
2. Intro pic
3. Great content / text (around xyz# words is ideal)
4. Pictures and relevant links to other sections of BYC mixed within the content
5. At the bottom of the article, links to "read and discuss more here" kinds of stuff. This is VERY important to help people continue onto other relevant parts of BYC once they are at the end of the article

Is there a way to make these a requirement? As in you cannot post this article incomplete (without photo, title, etc) Or maybe a pop-up box when you click "create article" that says something like "For questions, please post in the appropriate forum".

 

[CarpCharacin]

Is there a way to make these a requirement? As in you cannot post this article incomplete (without photo, title, etc) Or maybe a pop-up box when you click "create article" that says something like "For questions, please post in the appropriate forum".

Titles are already required, and many of the articles that should be threads contain pictures. I guess it may be possible to edit the template for the create article overlay, and add some text there, but I don't know for sure.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Titles are already required, and many of the articles that should be threads contain pictures. I guess it may be possible to edit the template for the create article overlay, and add some text there, but I don't know for sure.

I see what you mean. Has the warning been taken off (Please note, if you have a question...) to be changed? I don't see anything when I clicked "create article". I see in red "You must upload one image"... So, can you put in red/bold, next to create article, a very brief explanation to what an "article" is? Or possibly saying "This will not be replied to as it isn't a thread, please click here *". I'm not very good at explaining things, so I'm sure you guys can come up with something better than that! But you catch my drift

 

[ShrekDawg]

I see what you mean. Has the warning been taken off (Please note, if you have a question...) to be changed? I don't see anything when I clicked "create article". I see in red "You must upload one image"... So, can you put in red/bold, next to create article, a very brief explanation to what an "article" is? Or possibly saying "This will not be replied to as it isn't a thread, please click here *". I'm not very good at explaining things, so I'm sure you guys can come up with something better than that! But you catch my drift

I think the warning only pops up if you have less than 25 posts. I think it should be available all the time.