Site Suggestion About Announcement Threads

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I don’t know if this would be feasible for you guys to implement or if there’s already a way of doing this, but I think it would be great if there were a way to hide announcements.  I know there’s a way to ignore all threads in a certain category, like for those who don’t wish to see OT threads, but I’m thinking more of thread by thread basis.  Ignoring all announcements would obviously defeat the purpose of them, but I’ve already read through the announcement threads up so far.  On my main monitor (a 1920x1080 23.5"), they take up a hair more that 75% of the page before I can get down to the new threads that I haven’t looked at.  On a more standard monitor (I think this one’s about 17"), I can’t actually see ANY of the other threads without scrolling.  I think this is in part a result of the forum’s layout, since in a more traditional forum with a hierarchy of forums and sub-forums, I imagine the visual clutter would be substantially reduced by having them placed in the relevant forum or sub-forum, rather than all in one place on the front page.

This is a kind of small issue, but I d think it would be awesome if a user could say, “Yes, I’ve read the announcements about Admins, Mods, Members and Viewing Policy, and I’ve read the one abou the Real Time Chat.” and they could click a button to hide them until they were updated in some way.  Everyone would still be able to see and read them, but those of us concerned about wasted screen space could get at the newer material on the site without having to scroll down a page.  As usual, great job maintaining the forum to the admins and mods, just an idea I had that I thught might be an improvement for some members if it were not to much of a headache to make happen for the guys who take care of these things.  

Anyone else have any feelings one way or another about this?

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@shikitohno I get your point. I will look into this when I have the time. I haven’t come across this facility whilst browsing the innards so it may not be possible.

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Thanks, hopefully it’s something simple to do, and if not, this isn’t exactly a deal breaker.  I’m not about to up and vanish from the site over it, but thought it could be a nice, small improvement for those oddballs like me who care about such things.

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The fact is that the site is very poorly put together and it was in this state when I bought it. The hidden (to non mod members) control panel is pretty basic and not a simple question of a few mouse clicks to implement suggestions. Most of the things members ask about are very sensible and if we had a better system most would have probably been adopted by now. As I have said dozens of times now; a rebuild is needed, but that is for some point in the future I am afraid. But thank you for your suggestion; if we can find a way we will do it:)

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Just reopening this breifly to add a comment. @shikitohno look on the far right of each thread and there should be a button to click. Click it and you should see options. I’m able to “dismiss” and the annoucements begin to sink for me until someone posts in them again.