As promised we are introducing today a new page displaying the news of your groups in a more practical way. If you are moderating groups you will also find in the wink of an eye all the new contributions to validate before being posted.This page is for testing purposes only. We are awaiting your suggestions and feedback before finishing it up, so please do not hesitate to leave us a comment under this article.
Rest assured that we have not forgotten the other news pages especially those of your contacts which are undergoing a complete review at this time.
Catch you soon!
The ipernity Team
(to moderate it) it would show "new" once visited the next group would move up to the
top ... and so on and so on ... now ... "new" is not showing up always and the groups
do not flow up to the top as before ... not sure if this is a glitch due to the new feature.
Also, many of us have threads for members to post their photo in in small size, and
are asked to number them ... so the number runs on ... if they make a mistake, its not
possible for the admin to change it ... I appreciate that threads seem to be permalink,
but an admin I think should be able to change something like a numbering system
if that is what the thread is used for. I agree making some threads sticky would be
great.
What would be useful would be the ability to comment on a group photo from the Organize screen instead of have to get out of that and go into the group screen.
I can't say that about the beta page as I don't believe it's working in the way it's supposed to and it certainly isn't reliable in what it tells you.
If I set it to "your last login" and "groups you are administrator of only" there are no links or thumbnails displayed despite the fact I know for a fact from the old Groups page that there are new submissions I've not yet viewed. I've also found that when I click to view any so-called new' submissions the beta page flags up when I go back to the beta page it is still saying those says things are new even if I log out of ipernity altogether and come back in again.
I also don't understand why it shows nearly 80 pages of thumbnails when I'm pretty sure I've seen at least 90% of them, but that may be more because I don't understand the purpose of that particular function rather than it being a sign of any glitch or bug.
So, my own personal opinion would be don't pursue the beta page, but retain the old layout and look to enhance it by improving what it currently does.
For example: display a "NEW" icon against groups you are merely a member of rather than administrator or moderator of; allow users to sort and filter their group list alphabetically; and maybe have a feature where, if you've been away for some considerable time say on holiday, you can by the click of a button mark all "NEW" submissions as having been seen without you having to go into them all individually.
Whatever you guys decide to do I'm sure will be for the best unlike some other sites where they continually throw the baby out with the bathwater!