Nexus system feature requests

[Helena]

In our old system, we provided some perks specific to forums such as our Members Online Today option.   Since we are now opening the system to all websites, perks specific to forums will no longer be part of our development plans.  Please keep this in mind when suggesting new features.

We are interested in what you think would make your NexAds user experience better, or the experience of your visitors better.  We are looking forward to hearing your ideas. Thanks!

[Cory]

Bring back placing blurbs on your site.

[Skyon Archer]

We discussed this and for a one-time low fee of $87.12 (USD) we can provide that to you today!

. . . one moment, Helena's calling . . . .







Uhm, nevermind. Management has informed me that this service will be free just like all the other services we provide.

I'll get right on that for you sir.

I have created an RSS feed for blurbs, but haven't put it out to the world as of just yet. If that would be of interest to you. It could be scraped for info to display on your site. If interested, let me know.

[Helena]

Indeed, our current blurb set up is just the beginning of blurbiliciousness that is yet to come.

[Skyon Archer]

Bring back placing blurbs on your site.

Full text of the blurb or a shortened version, like 100 characters followed by .....

??

[Cory]

Should be an option each user can choose, I think.

[Skyon Archer]

Considering twitter doesn't cut off your tweets, why should we cut off your blurbs?!

Me tink' it's easy enough to just let it roll full sized and if someone needs it reduced, a magician like you can fix it for them

[Skyon Archer]

Cory, we have rolled out RSS feeds for the blurb and the Comments.  It should be easy enough to incorporate those into a website by using jquery.

I have thrown together a quick example here for you.

Disclaimer: I'm not a pro at jQuery and there may be a better way, this is just one way

If you have posted a blurb, either go to your Control Panel and get the RSS feed link or on your MyPage there will be a RSS feed link available.  Copy the link to your Blurb RSS Feed.  In your case, it would be https://planetnexus.net/nexsys/rss/168

However, since you haven't made a blurb (as of yet), we will use my blurb link which is https://planetnexus.net/nexsys/rss/2

Now, put a division where you would like the blurb to be displayed:

Code:

<div id="rssfeed"></div>

Afterwards, put the following:

Code:

<script>
$.get("https://planetnexus.net/nexsys/rss/2", function(data) {
   var $RSS = $(data);
   $RSS.find("item").each(function() {
       var $this = $(this),
           item = {
               title: $this.find("title").text(),
               description: $this.find("description").text()
           };
       $('#rssfeed').append($('<div id="feedtitle">').html(item.title));
       $('#rssfeed div#feedtitle').after($('<div>').html(item.description));
   });
});
</script>

You should now have the posted blurb displayed inside the division you created with an ID of rssfeed.

Here's an example of it in action: https://planetnexus.net/nexsys/blurb-rss-test

Disclaimer 2: no styling has been used to make it pretty and such