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Hey! So, me and a few other Paizonians were talking in another thread, and we each spontaneously realized we all really missed the old sidebar that used to show the latest posts. It was a nice way to browse parts of the forums we normally didn't think to check, and helped the messageboards feel like a coherent entity. Especially in the days of Focus (a feature I use a lot, to be clear, out of necessity), that's something I really miss. I don't think we'd have gotten iconic threads like "Succubus in a Grapple" without people glancing at the sidebar and muttering, "Okay, I GOTTA know..."
Anyways, the last time I brought the sidebar up, a long time ago, I remember Gary Teter joking that he was pretty sure I was the only person who ever used it. But that's not true! There are pairs of us! Quartets, even!
Aside from creating clutter for those who disliked it, the biggest problem I can see with the sidebar is that it might encourage endless dogpiling onto toxic threads. I do think it might be interesting if threads that get moderated heavily just automatically get removed from the sidebar, or maybe the moderator can remove them from consideration from the sidebar by checking a little box. I think making the sidebar an optional feature you could Enable/Disable would also solve most of the major problems it introduces, though that might be tricky to program.
So this is just a thread to say, for the record, that you would use such a feature if it ever got re-added.
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I complained about its absence way back when it first disappeared. Chris promised similar functionality in "a new and polished form."
But that was more than three years ago. :(
Well, you know, you gotta break a few eggs to polish Rome in a day.
Well, fair enough. But, you know, you gotta count all your chickens before you save a bird in the hand instead of catching two with honey.