Feature Need blatant, annoying "Announcement" capability

 
  • Created:about 2 years ago
  • Modified:about 2 years ago by sam
  • Status:approved
  • Owner:unassigned
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For new releases, mainly, it would be good if there were something up at the top of the tracker (flashing, scrolling, bold, whatever) that is completely obvious that this is an important announcement to take people to the entry about information on a new release (or other important event).

 
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  • Created:about 2 years ago

Just me being picky here, but please not flashing or scrolling. Bold, different colour, enormous font, anything else would be fine and is needed but flashing and scrolling will just look tacky and like something from the 90s.

 
 
  • Created:about 2 years ago
  • Modified:about 2 years ago

No wishes, but I agree a bold font, something to make it pop, some red coloring, something.

 
 
  • Created:about 2 years ago
 
  • They would be similar, but I think ebr wants announcements to be more noticeable than stickies, like how announcements on the forum are more easily visible than stickies. – Shidojin about 2 years ago
  • well that depends. I only click on the view new posts link and work from there :) – birkoff about 2 years ago
  • Ah, I never do that, I like going through section by section to keep context. – Shidojin about 2 years ago
  • you guys are way more skilled at finding stuff then me on this setup, i have a real hard time finding stuff. hope the redesign stuff gets approved, and the comments i made in them get seriously looked at. – BAS about 2 years ago
 
  • Created:about 2 years ago

There will be no blink tag, but I agree sometimes we need a notify feature, like – server will be down it 2 hours and so on.

Need a mockup for this.

 
 
  • Created:almost 2 years ago

With the recent third party issues like tmdb api being unavailable, it would be really helpful if we can easily broadcast an announcement like so people don’t keep reporting the same issue.

 
 
  • Created:almost 2 years ago

Yeah, I'd like to see it as a scrolling, highlighted announcement type thing on the top of any main page (not a topic detail) you are on. I think that will get picked up much better than any type of “sticky” which, eventually just gets overlooked just like a regular topic.