...it is Mindat History The newest Mindat News item is approaching 4 months old and the older "news" is approaching one year. This is the slowest moving section of the front page. I believe it is time to downgrade it. I have thought of a few options to start the ball (thoughts) rolling: 1) Shove Dealer News under Mindat News (cutting the size of News in half) and give the extra space in the right column to New Discussions that turns over on a fairly fast pace. 2) Switch locations of News and Discussions, amounting to the same size changes. 3) Combine News, Articles, and recently removed Blogs. You could still probably cut the space in half. If you thought this might be confusing you could add a tag in front to differentiate them (Example "Article: My New Article"). Bill http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,4,262382,262382#msg-262382 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:58:23 +0000 Phorum 5.2.15a http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,4,262382,262649#msg-262649 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,4,262382,262649#msg-262649
My suggestion has nothing to do with your available time. As they say you are already putting in 25 or 26 hours a day.

It was an idea to put up more of what seems to catch people's interest and that seems to be the discussions. The idea of people writing more news articles is good, and they are, but they are putting it in the message boards.

But then again, this is a mute point as this thread has not given rise to any user discussion so must not be any interest in a change.

Bill]]> William W Besse New Features Tue, 05 Jun 2012 03:32:50 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,4,262382,262422#msg-262422 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,4,262382,262422#msg-262422
Jolyon]]> Jolyon & Katya Ralph New Features Sat, 02 Jun 2012 08:37:02 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,4,262382,262392#msg-262392 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,4,262382,262392#msg-262392 Mindat news are all made by Jolyon and he is enough busy with Mindat general problems.
So - you want to have more news? Write them! Share your new discovers!
Mindat needs you :-)
Best!
Tomek]]> Tomasz Praszkier New Features Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:46:22 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,4,262382,262389#msg-262389 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,4,262382,262389#msg-262389
Dennis]]> Dennis Tryon New Features Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:40:32 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,4,262382,262386#msg-262386 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,4,262382,262386#msg-262386
If you want to have a news item published on mindat, here's what to do.

Write your news item as an article. Don't publish it.

Create an icon image, jpeg 32x32 pixels. You can usually do this by cropping and then scaling part of an image.

email ME your article link (the private link that it gives at the bottom of your article, and the jpeg.

If we feel the news item is worth publishing, we will. But we can't publish everything, and don't expect one or two paragraphs of text to make the cut.

Jolyon.]]> Jolyon & Katya Ralph New Features Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:41:38 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,4,262382,262382#msg-262382 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,4,262382,262382#msg-262382
The newest Mindat News item is approaching 4 months old and the older "news" is approaching one year. This is the slowest moving section of the front page. I believe it is time to downgrade it.

I have thought of a few options to start the ball (thoughts) rolling:

1) Shove Dealer News under Mindat News (cutting the size of News in half) and give the extra space in the right column to New Discussions that turns over on a fairly fast pace.

2) Switch locations of News and Discussions, amounting to the same size changes.

3) Combine News, Articles, and recently removed Blogs. You could still probably cut the space in half. If you thought this might be confusing you could add a tag in front to differentiate them (Example "Article: My New Article").

Bill]]> William W Besse New Features Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:45:46 +0000