Featured Content System

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Featured on Mar 15, 2021 by Null: Years after promising to do so, I sat down over the weekend and wrote a featured content system that people other than me will be able to add content to. Let me know what you think.
Let me know what you think about the featured content system. It uses moderator permissions so I'm going to make it so mods can feature posts too.

To-Do:
1. Featured content tab with all historical features.
2. Tidy up the block so there's more immediately obvious emphasis on the message.
 
Null said:
Let me know what you think about the featured content system. It uses moderator permissions so I'm going to make it so mods can feature posts too.
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Can the features tab be collapsable as well ?
 
To give you an idea how long I've been planning to do this, the notice for the featured thread is just some HTML block I titled "Ghetto Featured Threads" because after the XF1 to 2 transition we lost our featured post add-on, but the add-on dev never made another.

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So does it work like reports? Anyone can flag a post for mod review, which they then approve?
 
It's just a giant box that just sits up there with random threads. In the old days, Featured Content was one thread that seemed to be getting views and had an actual post preview with the avatar (if I'm remembering right).

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Xarpho said:
It's just a giant box that just sits up there with random threads. In the old days, Featured Content was one thread that seemed to be getting views and had an actual post preview with the avatar (if I'm remembering right).
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The old feature system was pretty in-depth but the issue with the preview was that it was huge. These days we have a rolling list of updates and I feel that works better. Though the old feature only let you show OPs.
 
It takes up a lot of space. I also have a hard time seeing where one item ends and the next begins at a glance. It looks like a solid block of text.
 
Is it going to be mainly chronological based on when staff adds something or is there a way to prioritize the list based on importance? I know the second option is pretty subjective, but I wouldn't want stuff like deaths and major arrests to slide down the page just based on timing and other thread happenings.
 
This is looking good. Was waiting for a more user-controlled system like this
 
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