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Hey guys,

I've been working on another redesign of the homepage to make it cleaner, simpler, and a bit less daunting. I'm posting it here as a WIP for wiki users to post suggestions/comments/criticisms so I can integrate people's ideas into the mockup.

 

At the moment, I have only designed the header, as can be seen here: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/User:Hungr ... x/Homepage

 

I will update this post when I have made more content.

 

Please - all feedback welcome and appreciated! :)

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This is very cool: http://pcgamingwiki.com/images/4/4f/TestTwitterfeed.png as is this http://pcgamingwiki.com/images/6/63/Tes ... topics.png

 

However we have a problem in that the format of what we get is hugely dependent on the way RSS feeds are parsed on MediaWiki. For example on the PHPBB feed - the current implementation is very basic - we use a third party RSS embedding tool to parse the feed and insert it into MediaWiki - there's no way to seperate the title/forum name/author out of the feed unless we build our own RSS feed parser which is beyond my ability.

 

For example the feed for PHPBB is here: feed.php?mode=topics - it doesn't even update or push up when there is a reply unfortunately.

 

I have a feeling that we will need to look at the tech and programming side before we can make this homepage look better.

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This is very cool: http://pcgamingwiki.com/images/4/4f/TestTwitterfeed.png as is this http://pcgamingwiki.com/images/6/63/Tes ... topics.png

 

However we have a problem in that the format of what we get is hugely dependent on the way RSS feeds are parsed on MediaWiki. For example on the PHPBB feed - the current implementation is very basic - we use a third party RSS embedding tool to parse the feed and insert it into MediaWiki - there's no way to seperate the title/forum name/author out of the feed unless we build our own RSS feed parser which is beyond my ability.

 

For example the feed for PHPBB is here: feed.php?mode=topics - it doesn't even update or push up when there is a reply unfortunately.

 

I have a feeling that we will need to look at the tech and programming side before we can make this homepage look better.

 

That is a shame - perhaps I can snag Jan when he is less busy :<

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Thanks so much for this, I am stupid and missed this in the PHPBB documentation I was looking at.

 

Edit: feed is updated now to show most recently updated threads.

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