Improvements to The Pit

[Jon Solberg]

I concur Ribeye.

[ribeyeguy]

It's a great forum just as it is now. Why change anything?

[Nate]

RichBrew , I'm able to pull up the videos here on the pit series forum by using my web app on my smart tv. Have to log into the pit as normal.. just takes a while without a keyboard and mouse... but a friendlier version would rock.

[David Parrish]

I'd like to keep the join date and # of posts but we might be able to get rid of a lot of the grey space. Would be good to ask Glenn to play around with it in development.

Everyone - keep in mind our signatures are hidden unless you scroll over them. That alone makes us more compact than most forums.

[Meathead]

How important is it to show join date and number of posts?

[Meathead]

We are not trying to integrate with Drupal. Drupal has nothing to do with anything in here. On this page all mentions of Drupal are by you. What we do want is for the navigation in here to be similar to out there so people will be able to navigate more easily.

[Meathead]

Subforums: Remember, The Pit is still young. Most have more than 20 comments and the few with less thematically belong. We are questioning the butcher section which does not seem to be getting much use.

[David Parrish]

If a person wants to engage in a discussion about your cook, and your cook is the topic of the thread, then they should post their question as a reply. If it's off the topic of the thread then you two should chat by comments while everyone else continues the on topic discussion through replies.

[mgaretz]

So if I post something I've cooked and someone posts a comment wanting to know what I did, you'd prefer that I quote it and post the recipe downthread? That takes up more space and disconnects the comment spatially from the question.

[David Parrish]

mgaretz here are my thoughts on the comment system, and why it is the way it is (post #17). I think 300 is a very good #.

https://pitmaster.amazingribs.com/forum/suggestion-box/145196-cannot-post-comments/page2

[mgaretz]

1000

[Jaytee]

David Parrish as far as I can tell Tapatalk supports private forums. might be worth investigating further, it would give you several of the suggestions on this thread...

[Henrik]

Great to hear! When it comes to UI, I would really love to see some kind of compact reading view. By that I mean that each "entry" or post takes up way too much screen real estate. Take a look at the attached screenshot of the three posts just above this one:




So, just to read those three lines, I have to do a lot of scrolling...

I'm thinking that if we could minimize or shrink the lefthand gray section (user profile), it would be a nicer/quicker user experience. That profile section could be shown on mouse-over (hover) instead.

It could look something more along the lines of:

Mbmorgan: If it ain't broke...
Jon Solberg: We need flying monkeys. That be really cool. : )
DWCowles: and here we go again

Perhaps too spartan for some, but you get what I'm after...

[DWCowles]

and here we go again 😏

[RichBrew]

I LOVE the idea of the videos being in a format viewable on a smart tv.