@GrandOldTeam I guess what always makes me frustrated is that there isn't a separate transfer thread solely for transfer story embeds or links without the additional commentary, so if you're looking to keep apprised of transfer news you don't have to shift through 50 pages for actual info. Is it possible to start a separate one just for transfers rumor embeds and no comments? If not no worries
It's a good point, and something I consider a fair bit.
Crux of it though mate, is always remembering what we are. We're a forum, for opinion and discussion. That's always got to be central.
I get there's some who'll want to dip in and out, but what exactly for?
Is it confirmation? We have thread prefixes. When players sign, usually within seconds it's updated. We have a front page for
Everton news. It should be more active, but we struggle for writers.
Is it just key updates, how do we decide what those are? How do we segment that?
There's features we can buy for the site like threadmarks;
Tagging specific posts in a thread so they can be easily navigated to.
This is useful for long threads discussing a topic over a lengthy period of time and many pages. A threadmark allows a user to quickly jump to a specific post which is related to a certain event, date, or whatever is relevant to the thread.
Optionally this allows building an 'index' of posts and allows easy next/previous navigation between marked posts. A threadmark index can then be attached to a threadmark list for additional information and statuses.
^ I've considered the above for goals etc in match threads.
And thread highlights - which serve to make posts within threads considered important more noticable.
As for a seperate thread with just rumour embeds -Man Utd's version of GOT has something like that, called Transfer Tweets. It just pulls in embeds of Tweets, would something like that be worthwhile? Would people use that? I could take a look, but i think the API access for X/Twitter now is a big chunk of cash...
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