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Snakes In The Ball Pit => Announcements => Topic started by: Lemon on January 24, 2019, 09:42:40 am

Title: Raise the "Hot Posts" Ceilings?
Post by: Lemon on January 24, 2019, 09:42:40 am
So you've probably noticed this as a piece of UX, but each thread has an icon with a couple of signifiers, including whether you've posted in it, whether it's locked, whether it's sticky, and if it's marked as a "hot thread". That is, if a thread has more than 20 posts, it's considered a "hot thread" and has a match. If it has more than 40 posts, it's a "very hot thread", and has a campfire.

Except, here's the "notes from the front lines" subforum right now.
(https://i.imgur.com/HyzJbRy.png)

However, the subforum for the podcast is more diverse, as far as it goes.
(https://i.imgur.com/ccsCnGf.png)

So does it make sense to change those numbers? If so, to what?
Title: Raise the "Hot Posts" Ceilings?
Post by: Turtle on January 24, 2019, 10:04:09 am
If it's just a raw number of posts, isn't that somewhat redundant with the page indicator?

I'd never really given much attention to the hot thread icons but I'd think they'd be more transient than that. Something is hot because it's active now, not just because it was active a week ago.
Title: Raise the "Hot Posts" Ceilings?
Post by: Dr. Buttplug on January 24, 2019, 10:11:21 am
Maybe an icon of a village on fire for longer running threads like Internet.txt?
Title: Raise the "Hot Posts" Ceilings?
Post by: Frank West on January 24, 2019, 10:47:12 am
Just make it so it's not a hot thread until I post in it
Title: Raise the "Hot Posts" Ceilings?
Post by: Shell Game on January 24, 2019, 05:48:27 pm
Just make it so it's not a hot thread until I post in it
Frank West, January 24, 2019, 10:47:12 am
Seconded.
Title: Raise the "Hot Posts" Ceilings?
Post by: Sherman Tank on January 24, 2019, 10:11:43 pm
I would say make it 30 posts instead of 40 but whatever.
Title: Raise the "Hot Posts" Ceilings?
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on January 25, 2019, 12:50:23 am
Make it function by Peewee Herman rules and is only considered hot when someone posts the magic word
Title: Raise the "Hot Posts" Ceilings?
Post by: Lemon on July 08, 2019, 09:46:45 am
Just realized I never followed through on this. Issue opened (https://github.com/AhoyLemon/ballpit/issues/62).
Title: Raise the "Hot Posts" Ceilings?
Post by: Shell Game on July 08, 2019, 10:13:02 am
Please also consider flashing gradient icons that say "HOT!" and "VERY HOT" with maybe a fire gif somewhere.

(Not a suggestion to add these things, but just consider those images. Watch the old website animations in your mind...)
Title: Raise the "Hot Posts" Ceilings?
Post by: SHAMBA~1.SBB on July 20, 2019, 10:04:37 am
If it's just a raw number of posts, isn't that somewhat redundant with the page indicator?

I'd never really given much attention to the hot thread icons but I'd think they'd be more transient than that. Something is hot because it's active now, not just because it was active a week ago.Turtle, January 24, 2019, 10:04:09 am
Yeah.  The threshold should be a post rate, not a post count.  Post count is a long-standing tradition, but it's a dumb one.
Title: Raise the "Hot Posts" Ceilings?
Post by: Lemon on July 26, 2019, 03:11:43 pm
Done (https://github.com/AhoyLemon/ballpit/issues/62).
Title: Raise the "Hot Posts" Ceilings?
Post by: KingKalamari on August 15, 2019, 10:57:48 am
Good, now work on raising the hot pants ceiling

(https://i.imgur.com/qOS9lif.jpg)
Title: Raise the "Hot Posts" Ceilings?
Post by: Neal on August 15, 2019, 11:01:32 am
Good, now work on raising the hot pants ceiling

(https://i.imgur.com/qOS9lif.jpg)
KingKalamari, August 15, 2019, 10:57:48 am

By the way, what's the current Hot Pockets ceiling?