Announcments on Homepage

wnolan1992

I'm not sure how feasible this would be, nor whether or not anyone other than me would actually like the feature, but I had a random musing earlier.

The Announcements pane on the homepage that currently shows up site Announcements, how about extending that to show forum announcements? Say for example if I put up an announcement in C&H or Podcasts, users who have chosen to follow those forums would see those announcements in that box as well. So it could work with each users My Forums list.

I think it'd be a cool idea because I know, just from talking to a few regular C&H posters, they don't actually go onto the forum page at all, they just click into threads from the homepage. So they would miss any announcements.

I'm sure there's some dire hamster killing consequences of this idea.

Dav

hmmmm, it's an interesting idea. Not sure how we'd implement it though. We're already getting your forums list obviously enough, modifying that to also return any announcements in the forum's you follow might be possible. Those front page announcements were built outside of VBulletin but integrate into it so they might be easier to work with.

I'll add it to the features list, there's definitely some merit to it.