menu item for member's blogs?

[Freedda]

Okay, I know it's too early in the year for my kavetching! But I just noticed this, so I thought I'd mention it as a possible change/improvement.

If I go to the home page for this site - https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/ - and then click on the 'Community' menu item, it shows 'sub-menus' like Public Forums, Change Circle, Help, ... and so forth. Each of these has a list of forum topics below it, and in the 'Change Circle'column you'll find 'Member's blogs' as one of the items - along with Reading Circle, Yi Academy, and so forth.

But ... if I then go to any of these specific parts/subforums of the site - say Shared Readings, Exploring Divination, Yi Academy, or Reading Circle, etc., and then go and click on the 'Community' menu near the top of the page, I see the same lists for the 'sub-menus', but the 'Member's blogs' link is missing from under Change Circle!

It's not like the Member's blogs get all that much use - but it would be nice to be able to find them easier - as easy as say 'Dreams & Yi' - and also maybe if they're more visible and easy to find, perhaps they'd get more use (a long shot I know, but ....)?

Again, not a biggie, but just something I wanted to mention.

Best, David

 

[Liselle]

It's on the forums' home page. The list of Change Circle links is too long for the header menu, but the home page can be as long as needed. (There's even room for sub-forums - look under "Archives.")

There are at least a couple of ways to get there. Possibly the easiest, without having to set up anything extra yourself, is to go up to the menu, hover over "Community," and then click (don't hover) the Change Circle heading. That will take you directly to the spot on the home page marked with the orange box. The blog link is a few items below it.


Or, you could click the "Community" heading, which will take you to the top of the forums' home page; then scroll down to the blogs link.

If you use a bookmarks bar at all, you could put one or more Clarity links on it, especially if your bookmarks bar can have folders.

Or, now that you're a retired person with time (congratulations, by the way<<pretend it's a gold watch), you could try the World's Best Browser, Vivaldi, which I learned about when Hilary mentioned it in a post once. Among its nifty tricks, it lets you give bookmarks nicknames, say, "blogs," so when you want to go there, all you have to do is type the nickname (the five letters b-l-o-g-s) in the address bar and press Enter. No navigating at all! (No they're not paying me.)

 

[hilary]

You are both right - Liselle with her helpful directions, and David that for some reason I've left the link to blogs in the main site menu while removing it from the forum menu. (The style and menu are copied from one to the other, obviously, but actually have to be maintained separately, so this kind of thing can creep in in absent-minded editing moments.)

Now you've pointed out the inconsistency, I'm actually a bit more inclined to remove it from the main site than add it in the forum, because that list of CC forums really is getting too long. Would that be very annoying?

 

[Liselle]

I've left the link to blogs in the main site menu while removing it from the forum menu.

---ohhh. While typing a paragraph full of confusion, I just now figured out what this means. Sorry, David, I didn't even realize I didn't understand your question.
Main site menu = www.onlineclarity.com
Forum menu = anything under https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/

Er. Can of worms? For instance, compare the "Membership" column in each place. Also, login doesn't cooperate very well between the two. (If you'd like me to explain that better than "sometimes you have to log in twice," can it wait until it actually happens to me again? I'd decided it doesn't happen often enough to fuss about, so I've never tried remembering.)

About your actual question - it's okay with me personally if it's on the forums' home page and not in any menu.

There are other ways to keep an eye on it. E.g. I just started a test thread, and it appeared right away in "Latest activity." And it can be "watched" like any other forum. I just set up watch options for myself, so I'll get notifications if anyone posts.

 

[hilary]

The 'membership' column is meant to be different. Login, however, is supposed to co-operate nicely. If it's unhelpful on any sort of regular basis, then yes, please, I would like to know (in detail, with steps-to-reproduce, the whole thing) so I can at least have a go at debugging.

 

[Freedda]

Now you've pointed out the inconsistency, I'm actually a bit more inclined to remove it from the main site than add it in the forum, because that list of CC forums really is getting too long. Would that be very annoying?

I guess that's not the direction I was hoping it would go in - but that instead you'd add the Member's Blogs menu item to all the list. I don't see that adding one menu item to the list is problematic or confusing.

If you 'hide it' everywhere - so you can't get to it or ever find it - what's the point of even having the Member's blogs? (Or maybe I'm not understanding you here?) Or, are you thinking of getting rid of them altogether?

Anyways, I just wanted to point it out and you can take it in the direction you think works best.

D.