Hello, everyone! 👋🏻

I have been busy implementing some custom changes to the Pride of Nottingham site, and I will be taking a few moments here to discuss these improvements.

To improve the moderation teams access to the moderation tools, I have built PON HQ. A feature-rich application brings everything that a team member would need, such as the ModCP and various happenings across the site, to even member birthdays. This is in the early stages, but it will become more powerful, and allow for the team to spend their time effectively to help the site.

I have also coded a resource which will allow members to see the word and character count when writing in the text editor. Via your Account Settings, you can even turn on error detection, such as grammar and spelling. Thiis improvement isn't aimed at anyone, nor is it an effort to become the grammar police. It's simply been added to give people the option to spot issues before submitting a post if they wish. You can even turn on a setting which will tell you, but allow it to be your decision if you choose to post still or go back to editing.

Look for the TipTap Writing Assistant - https://prideofnottingham.co.uk/settings/links/

Match Discussions will now enable our volunteer matchday correspondent to provide live updates without triggering the flooding control.

Those who visit PON via their mobiles might be pleased to see I have even added a means for you to customise what shows in the mobile navigation menu. If you remove key elements, they will trigger changes to the navigation menu so you won't lose out completely. For example, messages, notifications and the search can each be replaced with a different button but they will still show in the navigation menu.

At the moment I have created custom buttons for the dashboard and topic feed, please comment below any which you would like to see.

To customise your mobile footer navigation you can do so here - https://prideofnottingham.co.uk/settings/mobilenav/

I will soon be announcing our brand new partnership scheme, aimed at working with local companies and businesses. Full onboarding has been completed, along with a quick overview of the benefits. So, if you know someone who owns a business that would be a good fit, please do help spread the word. PON is very keen to partner up in a meaninful way whereby it's more than just a one off promotion but that they become part of the Pride of Nottingham family.

Five spaces are available. There is a discount for those who sign up for 2 years. All partners get access to real-time stats, their logo in the footer and various parts of the site. Included in social media, video content which I am keen to bring back next season. They have their own partner page to highlight their role in our community! + much more.

I have several other applications in the works which will bring more userability, and some I hope members will spread the word about.

There may be bugs, but I will elimate what I find and what is reported ASAP. Please do help mention anything that you notice, as this means it will likely be caught and fixed quicker.

This season hasn't been my best. I fell short due to illness and personal reasons, but I am getting geared up for the remaining games, and what next season brings. You post suggestions by connecting your PON account to our status page, click the suggestions tab - https://status.prideofnottingham.co.uk/suggestions/

Many thanks!

Chris

Very exciting changes @Chris you’ve worked incredibly hard, the PoN HQ is awesome. Checking out other things now. 👏

Apologise for the length of the site's offline duration: I ended up falling to sleep right at the moment I should have installed final patches and activated the site back to being online.

There's still a couple of bugs, which I am in the process of getting solved now but the sites open again.

These are very exciting changes. Thanks for your hard work @Chris

@Chris my thanks and gratitude for all the unseen and seen hard work you do for PON, you should be proud of what you have achieved. Top Man. ⚽️👍👌

I am really enjoying the lightweight fluid theme. It looks very good and the improvements you mentioned will be well received. It feels like real progress has been made with the site and the ideas behind it are strong.

I hope Notts can at least reach the playoffs so we finish the season with some fight.

Touch wood, you can now customise the mobile navigation in the footer of the site to your own personal liking.
https://prideofnottingham.co.uk/settings/mobilenav/

Please use this announcement topic to request additional links. I have only added two custom ones but there might be areas you would like to see. I can most certainly make it happen, but I don't want to assume because it could become bloated. This also avoids me over adding, on the assumption I am giving options when in fact it just creates more options.

If you have any suggestions in general, please proceed to sign into our status page in order to make a suggestion, which members can vote in favour of.
https://status.prideofnottingham.co.uk/suggestions/

Doing it this way, means that I can promote the status page which will be online, as it's not hosted on PON's dedicated server. Meaning if an incident occurs where we are offlne, or I am just taking a nap again, at least you will know I am working on something and not to fear the worst.

I have used the same text editor as here, TipTap which is a very powerful free to use lightweight script. Whilst some inspiration has been used to make it seem familar, I have kept it to a more standard UI/UX with my own touch flare.

Connecting your account from here to the server page is secure, it uses inbuilt API and no password is transferred at all.

At some stage I will create a widget to show and allow voting to be made here, but the suggestions will remain outside to encourage those who wish to check the status of the Pride of Nottingham service.

I will ensure to keep updating, and log events because I feel strongly about keeping the community well informed. Please remember, in the event I need to share something privately, you will need to login using your PON account on the status page. Implementing a private means of sharing what could be sensitive is very important, and whilst this is part of my continued effort for further transparancy, some events may need to be prviate for security reasons.

@Robbie: Please take a moment when convenitent for you, and test the last match discussion to see if you are able to bypass the flood control.

Many thanks for your continued dedication to assisting the site with this, and the PON Man of the Match. It is greatly appreciated, and well deserving of this acknowledgement.

I have also re-introduced notifying members who have been named in the site leaderboard.

@Robbie, @Fan of Big Tone and @theAnticlough please can you keep an eye on tonight and tomorrow to see if you get a notification about being named, or more importantly if you have already.

I am still actively working on new and other improvements to existing features; my aim is to optimise all the resources I can to make the site performance even better. Resources made by one of my wonderful friends, will be requested to them on if they would implement improvements I may find. Any not being actively sold or remain custom will be carried out by me.

Thank you, to each and every one of you for the amazing support. I appreciate your feedback!

PS. Stay tuned for further improvements, and a more focused effort to become more organised. YOU PIES!

@Chris when I click on all activity it goes to unread content. Also I would like to enable “unread content” in my footer but I can’t see a way to to that, it’s one of my favourite features and I use it a lot.

@Fan of Big Tone All activity in the mobile menu at the bottom of the screen goes to the unread content? I can't reproduce this at the moment. I have tried it on my laptop, in minimised mode, using the inspect device toolbar, as well as on my current and older phones.

Yes “all activity” in the footer goes to “unread content” on both my iPhone and iPad.

5 minutes ago, Fan of Big Tone said:

Yes “all activity” in the footer goes to “unread content” on both my iPhone and iPad.

I will look into it, and add the unread button.

I'll pinch Jake's iPad when I get hold of him, seems strange it would only affect IOS devices. I just wanted to make sure what you meant. 👍🏻

I forgot the 'All Activity' by default can be changed to the default feed, but I have replaced it and not corrected the URL. Since the feed can be configured based on the default, the URL works with both. I need to change it to the all acivity point.

I'll patch it momentarily, Tone.

@Chris I will try to check it out when I get back from work this pm

Thanks for all the amazing work to create and maintain this online community for us

Hi @Chris

I posted two posts on the Barnet match thread on after the other but the two posts were combined & not seperate.