Small Upgrade On The Way

[AB Editor]

We're just adding some links to the AB social profiles (for those interested) and adding a "related question" feature.

The latter is a bit "dumb" at the moment, and runs a direct title search to produce results. We will tweak this in the future to produce more nuanced results.

Let me know if anything is on fire over the next couple of hours.

All the best,

Ed

[shoota]

Don't make me smile - I gotta headache Mo...

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Sorry ;)

[rob872]

?????????????????

[shoota]

It's a bit of an old sweats joke Rob, stick around and all will become clear although I think one of the personalities illustrated has given up membership....

[shoota]

By the way, welcome to AB!

[rob872]

many thanks. am interweb novice and feeling my way about,slowly. please excuse any fails or fopars..

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

I see no fails Rob. Welcome :)

[rob872]

guess that should be faux pas.i think...fail?ha ha

[Svejk]

Bring back £.s.d.
Some right whingers about.
How on earth do they cope with real problems in real life.

[sunny-dave]

http://www.privatemoneyblueprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Facebook_Changes.jpg

[AB Editor]

"My point is/was that all these new additions serve to "hide" the advertising in the overall page design, which to many may be a good thing but to the advertisers it would be not. My background, Ed, covers advertising so please take this as a constructive comment and not as a snide remark."

Yes, but it doesn't make sense DT. Clearly your background doesn't include internet advertising. It doesn't "hide" anything - you're just talking nonsense!

[AB Editor]

Ron, so what your saying is that you haven't read the thread. On the very first page we discuss the 1 badge which is incorrect on your profile:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/AB-Editors-Blog/Question1205539.html @ 14:15

Please make sure you're informed before wading in an posting derailing nonsense.

[boxtops]

I can still see all the adverts - it's not made a difference at all!

[AB Editor]

"what are the ab social profiles when they're at home"

Just links to our social media profiles, i.e. the Facebook, twitter and Google+ pages.

[AB Editor]

"it might have been better if they had been added as a list like Latest Posts, next to that on the rhs"

We did consider it, but it was a bit cluttered, and it would be put completely out of the way on short threads.

[boxtops]

Ed, I started a post without realising caranrog has done so also - mine's not showing as Related on hers! - and the whole thing is horrible. It's messy, it's confusing. It's been suggested that the RP section could be in a different colour - what do you think? I'm confused enough without you adding to it

[AB Editor]

"As you point out yourself, the related posts seem incredibly dumb at the moment. They might be useful when they smarten up. Have you set a time limit for that to happen? I would hate for them to be unused clutter six months from now."

Me too. We'll look to review in a few weeks. Currently it depends on our "stock" as to how useful they seem. These could potentially be useful here:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Family/Question1205728.html

I've only had a quick glance at the news ones, and they do seem worse there.

[boxtops]

We don't (surely) need every "good morning people" related thread on the GM thread ...

[AB Editor]

Mojo-Jo-Jo - thanks for that!

Re the various colour change requests - that might be a way to differentiate it a little. We did consider it originally. We'll have a play and see what looks acceptable.