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Mr. Smartyman
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home page updates?

Post by Mr. Smartyman » May 10th, 2018, 8:16 am

this link: https://www.oregonhikers.org/ takes you to the home page. This page used to be updated with popular trip reports.

Either the reports posted there are setting a record for most days as most popular, or this isn't being updated anymore. I miss this feature. It used to be the start page for my browser.

Now I have to go to the forums and then to trip reports and then decide for myself what I want to look at. I can't be clicking and deciding all day!

That's my two cents.

p.s. you should a have feature that, whenever someone gives their two cents, it actually donate two cents to the site. It would add up.

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retired jerry
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Re: home page updates?

Post by retired jerry » May 10th, 2018, 8:46 am

I don't know about your question, but I just click on "unread posts" and it shows me posts that I haven't already read, starting with most recent.

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Dustin DuBois
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Re: home page updates?

Post by Dustin DuBois » May 10th, 2018, 1:36 pm

Mr. Smartyman wrote:
May 10th, 2018, 8:16 am
this link: https://www.oregonhikers.org/ takes you to the home page. This page used to be updated with popular trip reports.
Either the reports posted there are setting a record for most days as most popular, or this isn't being updated anymore. I miss this feature. It used to be the start page for my browser.

Now I have to go to the forums and then to trip reports and then decide for myself what I want to look at. I can't be clicking and deciding all day
Most of the featured trip reports are pretty recent postings. It's probably a combination of the most recent and the most commented. Maybe a nice bold link to "All Trip Reports" would be good to add to that block of thumbnails.
Hi!

Mr. Smartyman
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Re: home page updates?

Post by Mr. Smartyman » May 10th, 2018, 3:47 pm

It's just not updated anymore. There have been almost 30 trip reports posted since it last changed. Really, nothing since the forums changed.

Not a big deal. I just liked it.

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bobcat
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Re: home page updates?

Post by bobcat » May 10th, 2018, 5:29 pm

Dan is aware of this, and he has been looking at it as part of the upgrade, which wasn't just a routine "bump up." There are a few individual technical difficulties that have come up. For now, we're stuck with a "placeholder" home page. Thanks for your patience!

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Re: home page updates?

Post by Mr. Smartyman » May 10th, 2018, 6:47 pm

Cool. I look forward to future updates.

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Martell
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Re: home page updates?

Post by Martell » May 10th, 2018, 11:09 pm

Here is the list of trip reports that should be displayed:
North Ridge Little Baldy, Starway May 8, 2018
June Lake loop
Bonneville TH to Three Corner Rock + Table Mountain (May 4, 2018)
Klickitat Breaks, Soda Springs, and Beeks Canyon Viewpoint - May 6, 2018
Birkenfeld Mt to Three Corner Rock
Swale Canyon
Frustration Falls (Salmon River) - May 5, 2018
Mount Pisgah (Lane County) 5-01-18
A Tick and the Rogue River Trail
Dog preflowers
Augspurger Mt from Cook via Can Lid Lane
Lyle Cherry Orchard & Dalles Mountain Ranch

You can view it here: http://www.oregonhikers.org/index_new.php

The new forums encode the posts differently, so it was messing up what was displayed, but it is on the list of things to be fixed.
-Dan
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Martell
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Re: home page updates?

Post by Martell » August 2nd, 2018, 2:36 pm

These are dynamic again.
-Dan
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