[Suggestion] Communication TD: Dispatch enhancements

[Esternial]

I forgot to read the fine print in the main TD thread, so a bit late to make this.

It could be nice to expand a bit further on Dispatches, with a focus on organization. Currently, if you go to a Nation's Dispatches page you have a flat list of (something) a large volume of dispatches that appear to be sorted by creation date.

Below some suggestions to add onto the Dispatches:

1/ Sub-dispatches that can be created under dispatches.

For example, say you want to create a "Factbook" dispatch and organize discrete subjects/information in separate pages underneath a main page.

If someone then navigates the "dispatches" page and happen upon your factbook, they can expand a list of sub-dispatches if they so choose. See below for a visual example of a dispatch that would have sub-dispatches.

Charter of Snazzy
Bulletin → Policy
by The Alpaca Conglomerate of Esternial. 3 years 24 days ago. 16 reads.
> Click to expand sub-dispatches

This could also allow users to have some form of "version control", allowing them to nest older version of a dispatch under said dispatch.

2/ Adding "labels" to Dispatches.

These labels would allow search queries based on that label, so that users to provide a set of Dispatches to others by linking them to Dispatches created by them & labelled with a particular label.

for example:

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hhttps://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatches/category=1/nation=esternial&label=industry

Above URL would link users to all (and only) my Factbook pages about Esternial's industry.

3/ Allow users to assign "priority" (i.e. sticky) to dispatches.
Using this, users can ensure certain Dispatches - regardless of age - appear on top when you filter dispatches for a particular nation.

It wouldn't behave like a label, as it wouldn't exclude non-labelled entires, nor would it be suitable as a "sort" filter considering it's a boolean.

Having priority pages listed on top would be the default behavior when someone navigates to a nation's page and then clicks on the Dispatches button - allowing nation's to choose what is shown to the visitor.

[Flanderlion]

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=est ... tegory=110

So something like this - except custom, for dispatches as well, and you could have multiple in each sort for the labels?

All sound good, like, not must haves for me, but kinda cool QoL features.

[Esternial]

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=esternial/detail=factbook/subcategory=110

So something like this - except custom, for dispatches as well, and you could have multiple in each sort for the labels?

All sound good, like, not must haves for me, but kinda cool QoL features.

Indeed, so I imagine under my "Overview of regions" factbook page, I could then have a page per region going into further detail.
A basic two-level hierarchy would be nice. More could be even nicer, if feasible.

The labels I had conceived with Dispatches in mind mainly, as there you are querying the "global" dispatch directory. The "Factbook" sis already filtered for the individual player's content and more structured than just a flat list.

As you said, they're all some QoL features that could be thrown in the backlog in case anyone ever gets bored.

[Valentine Z]

Chiming in to say that I support this too, and it makes it neater for those who has A LOT of dispatches (mostly RPers and region admin nations).

[Wormfodder Delivery]

Also support it, could be really cool for my website and the birdboxes