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Kandarin
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Suggestion: Sort nations by activity

Postby Kandarin » Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:07 pm

Many regions, particularly larger regions with offsite forums, often like to send out announcements, warnings, event invitations, and so forth to get members - many of whom may not be able to follow the nuances of a regional forum all the time - involved in important events. In the past, many have suggested giving Founders and Delegates mass telegram powers to reach an entire region - without spending what can amount to many hours repetitively clicking, nor resorting to illegal scripts. But the telegram overhaul is a long time coming, as it requires

[violet] wrote:TONS of nuts-and-bolts changes, unfortunately.


So my suggestion is this: In addition to the current sorting of nations in a region by name and length of residency, there should be a sorting by most recent activity (tracked at update, of course). This would allow regional leaders and officials to sort out the recipients of their announcements, identifying the nations who logged in recently (and are thus likely to receive messages in time to act on them) and the nations that last logged in 15 days ago (and are thus unlikely to get the message in time, if at all). I also understand that many regions require a certain amount of activity, track absences, etc. and this would be a helpful tool for them. It would also cover much of the functionality of the proposed "who's online" feature - it'd only actually function as such at update, but would allow people to learn quite quickly who is regularly online.

The biggest pitfall I can see with this is the possibility of recruiters deciding this is the best way of identifying recruitment-message recipients and in turn badgering active, long-term feeder residents like myself who they usually steer clear of now. The fact that many of the most active nations in feeders are the nations that most want to stay put seems glaringly obvious...but so does the fact that TG recruiting is more effective than RMB recruiting, and the latter hasn't sunk in yet in many places.

Is this technically feasible/simple? And is the concern above a serious risk?
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Postby [violet] » Sat Aug 21, 2010 12:17 am

One thing our codebase is really bad at is sorting or selecting a big list of nations/regions based on one criteria. So unfortunately there is no non-stupid way to implement this idea, short of a foundation-level rewrite. Which I'm periodically tempted to do just because it would enable so much stuff like this.

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Postby TannerFrankLand » Sat Aug 21, 2010 12:18 am

So I'm guessing that 'sort by endo' list suggestion is also unthinkable? (I don't remember ever seeing a response on it.)
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Postby Oh my Days » Sat Aug 21, 2010 5:32 am

NSDossier does this. It used to be limited by region size, but I checked TRR and it worked.
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