AppleInsider 2025
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I hadn't planned on it, but I can throw something together here real quick.
1) The summary isn't actually new that's how we've always tried to use the article lede. We just colored it different and made it a little bigger so it stands out (seems like that worked?)
2) As for the comments, I assume you mean turning them on for mobile? Yeah. I don't remember why we ever disabled them there (I think it was a layout thing), so we turned them back on. As for viewing more comments inline on an article's page ... yeah. It may have to wait until we can do something about the forum software though, that is on the roadmap for this year. I don't have an ETA I sitll have to sit down and do a full transition plan for that. We have decades of legacy posts and hundres of thousands of users that need to be migrated. It also intersects with another poject we have in the works
3) The Dislike button was because, honsetly, most of the problem people that caused us to remove it in the first place are gone these days. I don't like having to delete posts, nor do i want to write a disseration to tell someone they're being dumb. Frankly, I am too old for that #$&*#$. We'll see if it gets abused, and if not we will maybe expand on it.
You will see a reorganization of the website nav around product hubs (mac, iphone, ipad, etc.) along with some additoinal filtering options on a bunch of sub pages (reviwes, how-tos, etc.) One of our main goals for the year is to impove user flows and better surface stuff where people would logically be looking for it. Right now a lot of it just gets lost in rivers, which is standard website stuff, but also kinda dumb. We'll probably start linking to tags as a way to group content again as well (see the current CES 2025 banner.)
On the forums themselves or elsewhere?
You can ignore invidiaul uesrs but not entire threads, no.
There isn't any coding done by you? Just configuring the forum software?
Unlike basically everything else at AI, the forums are not custom stoftware, correct. Frankly, if they were then they wouldn't be in the state they are, heh. We are looking into migrating them this year. Individual users can be ignored by going to your profile and looking at the ignore list or clicking this link. Ignoring entire threads is not something that is supported by the software