header issues: inserted logo is 'squished'
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I sure hope these helpful-sounding notes enable Joanna to fix up our header.
Thank you @strumelia, @lesrinchen, for these tips.
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Ning To Jamroom
I sure hope these helpful-sounding notes enable Joanna to fix up our header.
Thank you @strumelia, @lesrinchen, for these tips.
comments order newest first?
Ning To Jamroom
I think you've misunderstood our request/issue... I've just edited and rewritten our request.
I hope it makes more sense, is clearer, now?
private blog issue?
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Hello again.
I hope I can explain this well (attached screenshot may help).
On Ning, many of our members used "save as draft" as a way to have 'private' blogs and recordkeeping of their English progress.
They could also choose to mark them for privacy "just me."
I did not personally have any such 'private' blogs.
However, Joanna (co-admin of our site) did have some of these blogs that she'd intended to be private. Apparently both the 'drafts' and the 'just me' blogs are imported.
When we 'go live', all blogs are imported... even those that our members have rightfully assumed were 'private'.
Has anyone else encountered this dilemma?
Any strategies to suggest to avoid upsetting our members?
[If we 'broadcast' as a pre-migration task list, that members should immediately locate and delete any of those 'private' blogs, then we invite 'curious co-members' to quickly hunt and read/copy/save others' private words.]
In hindsight, we should have warned/broadcast this BEFORE our first import, but we did not.
Ideas, anyone?
Thanks,
updated by @holly-dilatush: 02/16/17 11:08:12AM
comments order newest first?
Ning To Jamroom
Hello again,
I will try to explain our challenge. [*REWRITTEN Sept. 27th*]
We are a nearly 5-year old Ning 2.0 site, with many active members who have been with us for much of those 5 years...
All of these members are accustomed to reading comments on discussion and blog posts with the newest posts being LAST (oldest posts show first)... so that the readers read and follow the discussion in progression.
[We are a language-learning site, and it helps the learning to see the original post, and then the gradual building of understanding.
This is fine.
Our challenge though, is this:
As we understand it, if we change the order of Comments, it will apply site-wide, module-wide. [So if we change the order of Comments to Newest first, it would apply to Groups, to our Forum, and to profile comment walls -- changing all of these to reverse the order of appearance. We want to have a different order for profile page comments (newest first) and then a different order for Groups and Forum (oldest first).
As we have our settings now, oldest comments appear first. This is what we want in groups. This is what we want in forums.
But this is not what we want on profile page comment walls.
On profile pages, where the "Welcome to LEWWWP" messages from 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 years ago are the FIRST thing migrating members will read/see, we don't want this order.
We want members to see their most recent comment wall posts first.
For example: http://lewwwpcom.jamroomhosting.com/jean
Jean, a long-time active member will log in here and see a welcome message post on his comment wall... from January 2012!
This is not so fine.
I want him to see the NEW welcome messages he'll surely receive from folks who find him and follow him again here on JamRoom --I want him to see those first.
Please can you guide us so we can change ONLY the order of profile page comments so that the newest comments are at the top. [but leaving oldest first for forum and groups]
*I hope this makes more sense*
As always, thank you.
updated by @holly-dilatush: 12/28/16 12:55:51PM
header issues: inserted logo is 'squished'
Ning To Jamroom
this post is expresses a challenge similar to ours:
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/ning-to-jamroom/19385/logo-and-cover-images-look-like-crap
but Joanna and I are stumped at how to fix our header logo...
it's 'squished'... my profile image here is our LEWWWP logo (it's roundish) but when we insert it into the header it's squished and unattractive.
Please, can someone guide us as to how to get our logo to look nice in the header? and if possible, to place the logo twice... on the left and on the right...
"in the loop with LEWWWP" is our motto... and we like the idea of looping back and forth in the header by using the logo twice...
Any guidance on either of these?
Thank you,
Holly & Joanna
updated by @holly-dilatush: 12/31/16 05:37:20PM
signup controls (age restriction for new members)
Ning To Jamroom
Hello again all,
On our Ning signup process, we were able to restrict the ability for anyone to register with a birth date that indicated they were less than 17 years old.
We'd like to do the same here (knowing, of course, that a savvy applicant could simply lie and use a false birth year).
Is there an easy way to accomplish this?
And if so, please guide us to where we'd go to activate?
Thank you ~
updated by @holly-dilatush: 12/25/16 09:52:38PM
