My take on how "What's New?" should be done

[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by Lairston

I like it Mark.

I think this is what the What's New should be.

I tried Andreas What's New reloaded mod but it stopped workiing after a few hours. It keeps saying there's nothing new. Have you had anything like that happen? If so, I'd love a fix of some sort.

I had that, it's something to do with the "list of content types" it installs in the USERCP.

When you visit the user cp this gets "blanked out", meaning no content types are selected. If you then save it you have a problem.

I think that's the issue - I simply removed that (think you untick a plugin) and it worked ok after that, but I do remember it being an issue.

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Wayne Luke mentioned on vbulletin.com that the original plan with What's New? was to have tabs. I think a screenshot even appeared. That was the first I'd heard of it as it had all been in the alpha forums back in 2009 apparently.

Anyway that gave me the idea....I'd never thought of it before. I'd already got the various content types to show, then I thought "why not have tabs"?

In an idea world of course, they'd be Ajax-powered etc etc but that's beyond my rather limited skillset.