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Pinned Conversations - hide or move?

  • February 14, 2018
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JimHarrison
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For a couple weeks the Pinned Conversations have taken up the entire front of this Community home page. While I appreciate being kept informed the information is stale (to me, possibly others). Would someone over there in QB Central spend a few hours to add the ability to collapse that Section. Alternatively it would also fit nicely as a side bar. Please and thank you. 

    • anomDiebolt
    • Quickbase Alumni
    • February 14, 2018
    Well it turns out the same rad techniques that are used to mod QuickBase can be used to mod other web pages including the forum pages:

    BEGONE PINNED CONVERSATIONS: 

    $("#sticky-topic-list").remove();
    Dan, I plan to take 6 months off in the summer.  Can you pin me to the top of the Leaderboard so I can take a break.  That would be a lot easier than having to answer all those question to stay on top.

    $("#sticky-mark-on-top").add();

    Thx
    Mark
    • anomDiebolt
    • Quickbase Alumni
    • February 14, 2018
    How will you manage to squeeze 6 months into a four month season?

    If you use TamperMonkey you could just keep jacking up the numbers on your version of the page while you were on vacation and you wouldn't have to answer any questions.

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo?hl=en

    TamperMonkey has the imprimatur of QuickBase because I saw one of the employees list it on an Empower slide during his presentation using the official master presentation. I down with that endorsement.
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    • EvanMartinez
    • Community Moderator
    • February 14, 2018
    Hi Jim,

    Thanks for your feedback as we are testing out the option of using Pinned Conversations on the Get Satisfaction platform that provides our forums. Right now we have several product relevant updates that we want to make very visible after the concerns expressed about communication over our recent releases and UI changes to make sure our active users are aware of upcoming changes. We will be looking to adjust it over time depending on their impact. 
    • anomDiebolt
    • Quickbase Alumni
    • February 14, 2018
    This is the feedback you need to take to your product managers and marketing people:Long Tail

    I think QuickBase does a pretty good job of selecting defaults and prioritizing features. But too many decisions and product affordances are being hard-coded into the product based on some type of 80/20 Pareto Principle analysis. Users want greater ability to customize the product for reasons that may never be apparent to you or for no reason at all. 


    The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail.
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