Hungry eyes 6 Share Posted December 29, 2012 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! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andytizer 269 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Looks good :). Let's hope Masked_Turk has some time to work on css sometime? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hungry eyes 6 Author Share Posted December 29, 2012 Looks good :). Let's hope Masked_Turk has some time to work on css sometime? Indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hungry eyes 6 Author Share Posted December 30, 2012 Updated with recently edited pages and announcements :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hungry eyes 6 Author Share Posted December 31, 2012 Added hot forum topics and twitter feed - repeated boxes to be replaced tomorrow :3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andytizer 269 Share Posted December 31, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hungry eyes 6 Author Share Posted December 31, 2012 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 :< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrett 212 Share Posted December 31, 2012 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.The feed you're wanting is mode=topics_active which lists topics in the order of the last post. Each topic is listed only once even if it has had multiple recent replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andytizer 269 Share Posted January 2, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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