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A Suggestion About Upcoming Book News
AcornArmy:
I think we should add some sort of link or ticker right on the main Forum page which would either display the news on upcoming books or point people directly at the posts containing such news. I suggest this because I've been wandering the site for some time, worriedly trying to figure out why I couldn't find the release date info for Skin Game, until a few minutes ago when I finally found a thread which pointed out that the book isn't finished yet. (I'm not sure why, but I mistakenly thought Jim had finished the book in September.)
Posts asking about when the next books are coming out sometimes morph into threads in which people complain about a book not being out, so I thought having the latest news on upcoming books right there on the main Forum page might simplify things, and help to enhance the calm of the populace.
We do already have that countdown timer that's used once a release date is set, but that can't help with less specific news. What I'm thinking about would be more like a headline or Tweet or something which would go up until the countdown timer could be used.
Serack:
--- Quote from: AcornArmy on November 11, 2013, 03:17:52 PM ---I think we should add some sort of link or ticker right on the main Forum page which would either display the news on upcoming books or point people directly at the posts containing such news. I suggest this because I've been wandering the site for some time, worriedly trying to figure out why I couldn't find the release date info for Skin Game, until a few minutes ago when I finally found a thread which pointed out that the book isn't finished yet. (I'm not sure why, but I mistakenly thought Jim had finished the book in September.)
Posts asking about when the next books are coming out sometimes morph into threads in which people complain about a book not being out, so I thought having the latest news on upcoming books right there on the main Forum page might simplify things, and help to enhance the calm of the populace.
We do already have that countdown timer that's used once a release date is set, but that can't help with less specific news. What I'm thinking about would be more like a headline or Tweet or something which would go up until the countdown timer could be used.
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AA!
Heh, I only recently got them to generate a sticky addressing this in the spoilers section. Maybe more can be done.
AcornArmy:
--- Quote from: Serack on November 12, 2013, 03:40:27 PM ---AA!
Heh, I only recently got them to generate a sticky addressing this in the spoilers section. Maybe more can be done.
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Hey, Serack. :) Oddly enough, the Spoilers Section was the one place I didn't look for information about the release date, on the basis that the release date for the next book wasn't, well, a spoiler. I figured news about it was more likely to be practically anywhere else Dresden-related, so I didn't check there. I have failed, and I am chagrined.
Serack:
--- Quote from: AcornArmy on November 25, 2013, 02:09:12 AM ---Hey, Serack. :) Oddly enough, the Spoilers Section was the one place I didn't look for information about the release date, on the basis that the release date for the next book wasn't, well, a spoiler. I figured news about it was more likely to be practically anywhere else Dresden-related, so I didn't check there. I have failed, and I am chagrined.
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Well, I had actually expected it to end up in the Books section since that's where the CD sticky of the same ilk was, but the spoilers section does get more traffic (although infrequent and new posters probably visit books first/more often)
Shecky:
Remember, there's also the Announcements subforum for... well, announcements like, oh, release dates. ;)
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