James M Snell wrote:
Dave wrote:
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I consider that a bug. The standard front-page theme should support
pinned-to-main, which is a Global-Admin only way to pin a blog entry
to the front-page of a Roller site.
I think adding a "pinned" option for make good sense.
As a general FYI, I'm taking a slightly different tact with pinned
entries "Pinned to main" entries in our updated internal blogs will
show up as popup notices on the front page separate from the other
entries. They will be used to inform users of planned outages, etc and
will be listed separately from the other entries. Among our user base
of several thousand bloggers, I haven't heard of any one clammering for
the ability to pin posts to the tops of their own blog pages.
I agree that "pinned to main" is a bad description of that feature and
we can probably do better, plus it should be built into the default
frontpage theme.
I also agree with James that this is not likely to be a feature that
normal blogs would really benefit from as evidenced by the fact that
AFAIK nobody has asked for it yet. I would probably defer to what other
major blog software is doing for the final decision though, do
MovableType and WordPress offer this?
*2* Shareable posts. The ability for a user to post to more than one
blog at a time. Rather than copying them, I think what we'd do is have
the blog entry be authored for one blog, but then have the ability for
the author (or another author on that blog) to share them with other
blogs. I'm unsure whether the permissions should be:
i) An author can share to any blog that they have write permissions to.
ii) An author can share to any blog that is set up as able to share to
in the blog's permissions (regardless of permissions).
iii) Both of the above; ie) configure the blogs you can share to AND
need perms.
Sounds kind of complicated. You'd do that via many-to-many
relationship between weblogs and entries? Can't we solve that problem
with aggregation instead?
Sounds really complicated to me and not really all that useful. Planet
aggregation seems like a much better / more elegant approach.
I agree, an aggregation is a nicer way of solving this problem in a
whole variety of ways.
-- Allen
- James
