1. recent.php is the most important page to me. That's what my blogline setup reads. But I think if g-blog would grow rapidly I'd use the categories page more often. 2. yes. Maybe this could also hold a "language"-tree? 3. I'm not really sure. Sometimes I think something is missing, but all in all I think it's good to have a global set of categories. Makes navigating by category much easier.
Effendi
· 5 years ago
Happy New Year Gossip! (bit late - soz!)
1) Recent Entries, or Friends Recent Entries page :) Don't use the normal one as most of the (to my mind) interesting categories (like Blogging/Personal/My life is..) are too far down alphabetically.
2) Probably - or could we have them in alphabetical order in each column vertically, ie column 1 A-H, column 2 I-Q, Column 3 Q - Z for example? I've never got my head round horizontal-alphabetic listings ;)
3) Errrm, dunno - do you mean a customiseable front page only showing the selected categories? If so then no - I'd just use recent entries.
(oh, and while youre here can we have an Advantgo channel? Pretty please??)
:) All the best for 2004 and keep up the good work - Im throughly addicted!
E.
Xyleth
· 5 years ago
1) Recent entries is the page I look at most often. Some kind of side bar indicator showing if there are any new comments against my entries would be nice (kinda like a combination enitries / comments tracker in a sidebar. No details, just a flag showing that there are comments there).
2) It would help to manage it as the list grows larger certinaly. And I agree with Effendi's comment regarding vertical alphabetical listings.
3) No, I'd stick with the current fixed categories. If everyeone could divide their own it'd fragment things and make it harder to look for similar themed stuff. Maybe have fixed top level categories and user definable sub-categories?
FanBoy
· 5 years ago
1: Recent.php and/or the friends edit of same
2: Never had a lot of use for hierarchs...maybe I'm a freak. *shrug*
3: Well, that really heads back to #1, doesn't it? Since I never use the front page, the catagories don't really affect me. In fact, the announcements don't stay at the top for me, for the same reason. Maybe if you made the recent page the new front, but made the announcement's "sticky", so they always show at top?
terpsichoros
· 5 years ago
Friends page, not really, no.
I'd like the ability to "friend" myself, or at least see my own posts on my friends page.
Edited on Jan 5th 2004, 15:15 by terpsichoros
Carlo Zottmann
· 5 years ago
Effendi: [Link] might be helpful for the meantime.
Everyone, thanks for the input so far, keep it coming! :)
Effendi
· 5 years ago
Ooooooh! new toy - thanks Gossip :) Now where did I put me ipaq charger.....
Susi
· 5 years ago
1) Recent entries (but then I don't read the entire blog anyway and concentrate on Gossip's entry mainly... me bad!) 2) tree-like structure would be fantastic! 3) definitely a custom set of categories
=:))
petrol
· 5 years ago
Yes to Xyleth's #3.
Zhaneel
· 5 years ago
1) Recent or Friends when I'm reading and/or moderating. I glance at the Categories page only to see if there are annoucements.
2) Don't know what you're talking about. The categories aren't that useful to me I've found. The only "use" I have for them is filtering out stuff I don't want, which doesn't work because I still see them if there is more than one category chosen.
3) I like the idea of a custom set, if only for ease of searching my own entries for relevant posts.
Zhaneel
-Kay-
· 5 years ago
1) Recent and Friends - I hardly use the front page for anything except announcements. To find more peoples blogs, I generally bounce my way along friends lists or comments.
2) Umm, like Deviantart.com's structure but with blogs. Aye could work. Or if doesn't for all the option to switch between flat and tree.
3) Agree with Xyleth would fragment the categories too much, and would more then not make them pointless.
dsh
· 5 years ago
1. I use recent.php as my start page, and sometimes I filter by friends
2. I think a hierarchical structure would help on the categories, if only to compress all the Games> things I don't usually read.
3. I recognize that a bunch of custom categories could make things fragmented, but I think adding a single category "Custom: _fill_in_the_blank_" could give more data about what new categories might be useful - count for critical mass. Also, it would let us be more specific about individual odd posts.
Chrisfs
· 5 years ago
Hi,
I use recent more than categories. Flat file is fine as long as things are sorted by category (meaning I want to see all the categories, I don't want a collapsible format that would hide some of them).
frostedlexicharm
· 5 years ago
1--I use recent if I've been keeping up, categories if I've been away awhile and only want to catch up on stuff of interest (food, for example).
2--I like the current list of categories, helps me filter out what I don't want to see and focus on what I do want to see.
3--Don't see what you mean by customizable list of categories...am a bit fuzzy on that.
I think this is a wonderful site and I thank you heartily for it!
noire
· 5 years ago
1) I open to the front page, but I only read the announcements. Then I click on Entries Tracker, Comments Tracker, and Recent (friends) in that order. Except there isn't a link to the recent posts on the Entries Tracker pages or the Comments Tracker pages :(
2) I don't think it would effect me much.
3) There are a lot of catagories (for instance 12 of the gaming catagories) that I can't see myself ever using and a few (like "rants") that I wouldn't mind having.
Beryl
· 5 years ago
1. I definitely use "recent entries" over the frontpage. If I've been away for a while (and as the number of users grows) I'm more likely to use the sidebar to get to specific categories than to troll down the frontpage.
2. Hierarchical categories are OK as long as you don't go more than three deep.
3. Custom categories seems awkward. How would I find someone else's category? Wouldn't the number of categories quickly grow out of control?
Terson
· 5 years ago
I primarily use recent entries. I would like to see a way to filter recent entries based on categories. I would envision this as: if a post contains a category that I'm interested in reading than the post would be on my recent entries page. This way if it relates to any category I like, I get to see it.
BlackSheep
· 5 years ago
1. Recent entries.
2. No opinion
3. Categories should be universal or else they become obsolete.
Morn
· 5 years ago
I'M POSTING NAKED!
jeck
· 5 years ago
breathes stertorously.
Uh oh. Too much information...
Hooloovoo
· 5 years ago
1. I tend to use recent entries (or recent friends) more often as well.
2. I'm assuming you mean the list of categories found on write.php? A tree listing might work, the idea of a user selectable switch for flat or tree view might be cool as well.
3. I think the categories should remain universal. If a user wants thier own categories, let them run thier own GLUE site. :)
I would, however, like to suggest adding formal method of requesting new categories to GLUE. I'm picturing a link on write.php (or in the control panel or the categories page, or on the side bar) that says "suggest a category". The results of the "suggest a category" form would be visible in the admin control panel (or sent by email/jabber?). To make things more fun, this could be a feature that the admin can enable/disable at will.
entipy
· 5 years ago
1 - Recent friends' entries (also would be nice to have a link to this up with the comments tracker, entries tracker, etc. rather than having to go back to the front page to get to the recent entries link) 2 - Doesn't really matter 3 - Nah. I think global categories are better.
Carlo Zottmann
· 5 years ago
@Hool: there won't be another version of GLUE, mate. The new code won't be released, sorry.
[Quote] there won't be another version of GLUE, mate. The new code won't be released, sorry. [Quote]
How comes?
Carlo Zottmann
· 5 years ago
"How comes?" Not enough time to maintain code for the public. That's one reason, but reason enough already for me. Same reason why I handed Class.Jabber.PHP over to a new maintainer.
Tom
· 5 years ago
Other than my PHP-based incompetence, is there anyone against a fork in GLUE? With public CVS - possibly a sourceforge (or similar) based project?
my answers: 1. recent entries (I substituted/index.php/recent.php a while ago) 2. hierarchial would be nice, but I'm not sure what it would be used for. Drupal does this quite nicely. 3. sounds cool.
Carlo Zottmann
· 5 years ago
Tom, go ahead. It's GPL software, so go ahead and have fun with it. As long as you adhere to the license, I'm fine with it. :)
haplo
· 5 years ago
If I might make a suggestion, something at the bottom of an entry saying how many views it had would be cool.
capnkjb
· 5 years ago
1. I use the recent entries page more, although it is interesting to occasionally spy something interesting on the front page of categories. 2. I have no huge opinion on this, sorry. I pretty much hit the "recent by friends" when I get the front page, so. 3. Much fun as custom categories would be, it's true that it would probably get cluttered. Perhaps have a couple customizable categories for each person - you get all these prechosen ones, plus a few that each user defines for themselves. I'm not sure how you'd deal with that under the categories system, but maybe there would be the category of "User Defined" and you see the latest three there.
The adding-yourself-as-a-friend thing would be cool. So would a hot fudge sundae.
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2. yes. Maybe this could also hold a "language"-tree?
3. I'm not really sure. Sometimes I think something is missing, but all in all I think it's good to have a global set of categories. Makes navigating by category much easier.
1) Recent Entries, or Friends Recent Entries page :) Don't use the normal one as most of the (to my mind) interesting categories (like Blogging/Personal/My life is..) are too far down alphabetically.
2) Probably - or could we have them in alphabetical order in each column vertically, ie column 1 A-H, column 2 I-Q, Column 3 Q - Z for example? I've never got my head round horizontal-alphabetic listings ;)
3) Errrm, dunno - do you mean a customiseable front page only showing the selected categories? If so then no - I'd just use recent entries.
(oh, and while youre here can we have an Advantgo channel? Pretty please??)
:) All the best for 2004 and keep up the good work - Im throughly addicted!
E.
2) It would help to manage it as the list grows larger certinaly. And I agree with Effendi's comment regarding vertical alphabetical listings.
3) No, I'd stick with the current fixed categories. If everyeone could divide their own it'd fragment things and make it harder to look for similar themed stuff. Maybe have fixed top level categories and user definable sub-categories?
2: Never had a lot of use for hierarchs...maybe I'm a freak. *shrug*
3: Well, that really heads back to #1, doesn't it? Since I never use the front page, the catagories don't really affect me. In fact, the announcements don't stay at the top for me, for the same reason. Maybe if you made the recent page the new front, but made the announcement's "sticky", so they always show at top?
I'd like the ability to "friend" myself, or at least see my own posts on my friends page.
Edited on Jan 5th 2004, 15:15 by terpsichoros
Everyone, thanks for the input so far, keep it coming! :)
2) tree-like structure would be fantastic!
3) definitely a custom set of categories
=:))
2) Don't know what you're talking about. The categories aren't that useful to me I've found. The only "use" I have for them is filtering out stuff I don't want, which doesn't work because I still see them if there is more than one category chosen.
3) I like the idea of a custom set, if only for ease of searching my own entries for relevant posts.
Zhaneel
2) Umm, like Deviantart.com's structure but with blogs. Aye could work. Or if doesn't for all the option to switch between flat and tree.
3) Agree with Xyleth would fragment the categories too much, and would more then not make them pointless.
2. I think a hierarchical structure would help on the categories, if only to compress all the Games> things I don't usually read.
3. I recognize that a bunch of custom categories could make things fragmented, but I think adding a single category "Custom: _fill_in_the_blank_" could give more data about what new categories might be useful - count for critical mass. Also, it would let us be more specific about individual odd posts.
I use recent more than categories. Flat file is fine as long as things are sorted by category (meaning I want to see all the categories, I don't want a collapsible format that would hide some of them).
2--I like the current list of categories, helps me filter out what I don't want to see and focus on what I do want to see.
3--Don't see what you mean by customizable list of categories...am a bit fuzzy on that.
I think this is a wonderful site and I thank you heartily for it!
2) I don't think it would effect me much.
3) There are a lot of catagories (for instance 12 of the gaming catagories) that I can't see myself ever using and a few (like "rants") that I wouldn't mind having.
2. Hierarchical categories are OK as long as you don't go more than three deep.
3. Custom categories seems awkward. How would I find someone else's category? Wouldn't the number of categories quickly grow out of control?
2. No opinion
3. Categories should be universal or else they become obsolete.
Uh oh. Too much information...
2. I'm assuming you mean the list of categories found on write.php? A tree listing might work, the idea of a user selectable switch for flat or tree view might be cool as well.
3. I think the categories should remain universal. If a user wants thier own categories, let them run thier own GLUE site. :)
I would, however, like to suggest adding formal method of requesting new categories to GLUE. I'm picturing a link on write.php (or in the control panel or the categories page, or on the side bar) that says "suggest a category". The results of the "suggest a category" form would be visible in the admin control panel (or sent by email/jabber?). To make things more fun, this could be a feature that the admin can enable/disable at will.
2 - Doesn't really matter
3 - Nah. I think global categories are better.
Okay, add it to g-blog.net v.2 then :)
How comes?
my answers:
1. recent entries (I substituted/index.php/recent.php a while ago)
2. hierarchial would be nice, but I'm not sure what it would be used for. Drupal does this quite nicely.
3. sounds cool.
2. I have no huge opinion on this, sorry. I pretty much hit the "recent by friends" when I get the front page, so.
3. Much fun as custom categories would be, it's true that it would probably get cluttered. Perhaps have a couple customizable categories for each person - you get all these prechosen ones, plus a few that each user defines for themselves. I'm not sure how you'd deal with that under the categories system, but maybe there would be the category of "User Defined" and you see the latest three there.
The adding-yourself-as-a-friend thing would be cool. So would a hot fudge sundae.
What're you waiting for? Chop chop! :D