I would like to expand on Hen's requests with some explanation about why I think these features would be a good addition to Roller.
==== RE: *1* Sticky entries. User is able to make a blog remain at the top of their HTML (though not their RSS). The order of multiple sticky entries would remain by date. I've seen "sticky posts" several times on other blogs, and I have been harping on Hen to make it happen for me for the past few years for the following reasons: 1) I basically blog for two reasons. Mostly it's "note to self" type stuff. However I also post longer entries where I seek feedback, comments, and opinions. These posts are more "important" as far as community is concerned. I also tend to post a fair bit, so what bugs me about my blog is that my "important" entries fall off the bottom fairly quickly. I think it would be great to be able to "pin" some of my entries to the top so that I could catch a few more comments if possible, particularly for those who check my blog only rarely as opposed to using a feeder. 2) Another scenario involves the blog community I'm most involved with -- knitting. There are blogs called "knitalongs" where everyone is working on the same project. One blog will have multiple authors. They post progress on their own projects and questions to other knitters on these blogs. Frequently with knitting, errata will be posted, and this is usually posted at the top of the blog. GREAT usage of sticky posts in my opinion! I did a quick google search and turns out I'm not the only one seeking sticky posts: http://www.stephanspencer.com/archives/2006/02/26/blog-seo-tip-6-make-sticky-posts/ http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/09/blogging-tricks-how-to-make-sticky.html http://blog.blogware.com/help/index.html?stickyposts.htm http://blogger-tricks.blogspot.com/search/label/sticky%20post Okay so most of these illustrate hacks for getting a post to stay "sticky". The point is it's a useful feature and a feature that people are seeking. ==== RE: *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 My rational for this is simple: I maintain two blogs and sometimes they overlap. It would be easier to have a mechanism whereby I could post this on both blogs rather than going through the steps to copy, past and publish it on my other blog as well. Roller itself encourages people to author more than one blog on the Main Menu page: "Feel like you've got more to say? Maybe another weblog is what you need." Okay so I have two blogs -- one for my crafty (and personal) endeavors and one for our son that Hen also contributes to. Back to the knitting world (and the Mommy Blog world does this too, but I won't go there), this is incredibly common. Lots of folks have one blog for whatever their passion (and community) is, and one for personal stuff. And sometimes even a third expressly for their kids. The problem is my two blogs are starting to overlap, especially as Nathan gets old enough for craft stuff. So more and more often I'm contemplating where to post something when it really goes on both. Again with the knitting blogs, you see the sentence "cross-posted at my whatever blog" quite a lot. Especially with the knitalongs -- people want a record not only at the knitalong blog, but also at their personal blog. You see the same post both places. Wouldn't it be nice and easy to be able to just post both at the same time? I haven't seen this feature anywhere, but I think it's a great idea. And maybe it would be a good thing to have some unique features. Carrie Yandell On 3/8/07, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dave wrote: > [snip] > 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. > >> *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. - James
