Show changed forums at top of main forum page (vb.org mockups)
 

Has anyone done a mod to list forums on the main forum page, index.php, so that forums with changes are listed first or only changed forums are listed period?

<think-out-loud>
It should not be that hard, since all one would need to is re-order $iforumcache before calling construct_forum_bit. Hmmm.. may have to call construct_forum_bit twice, once for new and then again for unchanged.
</think-out-loud>

C.C

Here's a mockup of what I had in mind. The alignment is faked, since I did not actually produce this output (duh! :)), just messed with some graphics.

The first gif shows the user selectable options (remembered in cookie from visit to visit) I was thinking of, then a mockup of what the page would look like if the user selected the options as show on the menu mockup gif.

The user-selectable option to not show descriptions would allow for significantly more forums to be listed in a smaller space, on sites with many forums. It doesn't show so well in this mockup since I intentionally used a narrow screenshot to limit attachment size. For users with wider screens, the affect would be to take quite a small space for each forum.

(ps: This option would just temporarily override the AdminCP option "$vboptions['showforumdescription'])", requiring no code change to construct_forum_bit.)