Should a news page be added to BU?

[dstruct2k]

Well, I noticed somewhere that a poll should be made asking if people want to see a big news page where major updates for everything go. (Bots, the site, supported games, the United Bot, etc)

I'm all for it. And my opinion means quite a bit, as I would be the one tasked with the job of making the page.

Anyone else care to cast their vote?

[Nova]

Originally Posted by dstruct2k

Well, I noticed somewhere that a poll should be made asking if people want to see a big news page where major updates for everything go. (Bots, the site, supported games, the United Bot, etc)

I'm all for it. And my opinion means quite a bit, as I would be the one tasked with the job of making the page.

Anyone else care to cast their vote?

Meh, have been saying that for a long time, we need a complete overhaul of this page, and use someting liek vbportal ( i own a copy of that) or subdreamer (subdreamer.com, i own that as well)

[dstruct2k]

Neither of those are what I would want to use, but they both are decent apps. (I used to use vBPortal on a vb2 site)

I was thinking of using VBA CMPS, as that's been the frontpage of choice lately for a lot of sites, it's free, and I have experience with it. (Used it on 2 sites now.)

We'll have to talk in private to decide on what to use, for now let's just see if it'll happen at all.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

Well if dstruct says he can make it, then there's no more reason for me to vote no

[>BKA< T Wrecks]

I'm all for it, too - we've been thinking long enough about a news page or a kind of update table for various bots. I think it would be a nice addition if users could directly read all BU-relevant top news on one page.

[KWo]

Most of bot users go directly to his favourite bot's forum, so thay don't care what was happened with some other bot. But if this news page will be for the people creating and working for BU community, why not? Another question is this - who will lead this page? If somebody wants do this - once again - why not?

[botmeister]

Voted for a unified news page. Makes a lot of sense I think.

[Maleficus]

I like the idea - but why not a package where any mod/admin can add news?

Newspro is one I know of, for example.

This way, it isn't all up to one person, so if that person were to forget, go on vacation, etc, news would still be fresh every day.

[dstruct2k]

Originally Posted by Maleficus

I like the idea - but why not a package where any mod/admin can add news?

Newspro is one I know of, for example.

This way, it isn't all up to one person, so if that person were to forget, go on vacation, etc, news would still be fresh every day.

That's not how it would work.

I would add a "News" subforum to each bot's forum, and a "General News" to the main forum list. Anything posted in any of those forums would make it onto the news page, with a maximum of one per forum (except the General News, for obvious reasons)

It would be sorted by newest news, and an icon would be shown based on what forum the news is coming from. I really think it would be helpful, even if I had to spend 30 minutes coding these "extra" features.


So anyone with rights to post in any "News" forum could post news. The 1-post-limit would be just so that one bot doesn't steal the entire news page.

[Maleficus]

Originally Posted by dstruct2k

I would add a "News" subforum to each bot's forum, and a "General News" to the main forum list. Anything posted in any of those forums would make it onto the news page, with a maximum of one per forum (except the General News, for obvious reasons)

Then I'm for it 100%!!