Stickied threads taking up space in overall community view

endorphin

If you click on the Community tab in the menu bar you are shown the whole Community view, unfortunately this initially consists of 5 stickied threads with the first few lines of text of each one. This lot then takes up the first page of the view, meaning you have to scroll past them each and every time.

I suggest either:

not showing the stickied threads in the overall view - they could still be shown in each forum view, or failing this
don't show the first few lines of text of each stickied thread - when you've read these once you don't need to read them every time you view the overall community

danwillen

endorphin I find that when all posts in the thread are read the sticky disappears from top till are new unread messages

z201205

endorphin This lot then takes up the first page of the view, meaning you have to scroll past them each and every time.

Better use of white space would also improve things. There's gratuitous space between each of those boxes. And there's gratuitous space at the top and bottom of each box. And within each box: why is there a whole blank line between the author and the preview. Also, the text could go to right of the box too. So instead of it taking up 3 lines in your screenshot, it would take 2. Even if the default doesn't change, I would like to see a way of changing all those things. On a mobile screen real estate use is also poor.

benjamin567

endorphin Stickied threads are definitely useful but we should be able to discard when we don't want them (especially those who know what they are doing).

A control on the number of lines displaying would be nice as well

endorphin

z201205 Better use of white space would also improve things.

I agree entirely! And is there a need to have a box surrounding each thread listed?

danwillen I find that when all posts in the thread are read the sticky disappears from top till are new unread mes

Hmm, I still see the stickied threads but without the abstract!?

endorphin

benjamin567 Stickied threads are definitely useful

I don't disagree but I personally don't need to see them every time unless the OP is updated. 😉

roxy_r

Thanks folks, yes, we will need to see how we make this better. In the meantime we will be a bit more strict with what we sticky. We just reduced the amount of stickys we have just until we have something in place to filter some of them.