How Do You Want Your Vox Homepage Reordered?

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"...something that people would want to use..."

Well, wouldn't that be a novelty? :-)

I know, god forbid something I make would be useful to someone! While any programming project will extend my knowledge of the language and benefit me by way of added experience, it's nice to know that there's a purpose for the project, too. My continued interest in developing/maintaining something tends to be directly proportional to its usefulness for myself and others. :-)

Dude -- you rock.

In general, I think they've improved the last design. I would move the QotD and VH to the top.

I don't care about my neighbor updates, so they would go below the "whatever is good" now pages.

I'l like the QotD and Vox Hunt up top, too.
I left this on the post that vox put out.

much better, but i'd still rather the qotd and vox hunt be at the top. i dont want to have to HUNT for either of them. and trying to find the QOTD'S for the different sections, culture, entertainment etc, is also a pain, since you have to go through each section to get to it...

I agree with Steve Betz that i dont care about neighborhood updates that much, and the posts.. well that's what my neighborhood page is for. duh. don't need to be repetitive. and the need for the 'theme' box? yeah.. not necessary.
i've just been checking out the page that just shows the posts. i couldn't care less about the qotd or the other updates. maybe that's just me...

i'm just more annoyed that i finally got used to the old one and then they changed it again. hehe.
Are you talking about the VoxWatch page? If there's something that needs to get reordered there, I can work on that after the homepage script is done...
i go to this page

http://grrrace.vox.com/explore/neighborhood/

it just gives me my posts. and that's really all i'm interested in anyway...

you don't need to work on anything for me. :) it's no big deal. :) thanks, though!
I like the recent comments to be the first thing i see and then next (to the right) to that the qotd/vox hunt, at the top where you can actually see it. i dont even care if my neighbors recent posts are on there because i go right to my neighborhood after checking out the home page anyways. and then maybe the this is good/culture stuff right below that.
Me, I've just stopped coming to the VOX homepage, and I don't know that even some improvements are going to be enough to get me to start using it again now that I've adjusted my time-wasting regimen to avoid it.

Sorry VOX, you are made of fail.
I wonder if these might be relevant to your topic.

1. The ability to categorize my posts
2. The ability to edit the HTML code of my posts
3. The ability to import text files
4. The ability to backup

These may be too much though. hehehe
Sorry, all of those are beyond the scope of a simple greasemonkey script, and most require backend changes on Vox's end. However:

1) Categorizing posts can be done with tags. Just tag all posts you want in a certain category with a given category name. Then you can view all the posts with that tag by going to http://yourblogname.vox.com/library/posts/tags/tagname/ .

2) Check out the greasemonkey script found here - they might have already implemented a way to edit HTML in posts.

3) This definitely requires a Vox modification to do within the Vox post application. What is your intended use of this, though? You could, I think, fairly easily meld together the moblog post-by-email with some scripts to import text files via an email to your blog.

4) I'm still hoping Vox will create a means to export your blog entries, since pretty much every other blogging platform out there has this functionality. However, in the meantime, you can use a service like BlogBackupOnline for free blog backups. I've got a post about this service in particular here.
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Thanks for your reply.

1. Yeah .. at the moment, I am categorizing this way; with tags.

3. I always think for the worst. If there's a case where my blog crashed or lost, I could easily import all my previous postings with text files.

Anyway, what could we ask for in this free service?
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Great idea! Thanks for making this script, and sharing it with us. :)

I like that Vox Hunt and QotD are together but wish they were above the ad in the sidebar. I actually like the Vox News, Vox Tips and Latest Themes modules, which I guess could come in that order after Vox Hunt and QotD (or even under the ad). I like being able to see if there's a new Vox blog post and new themes via the homepage without having to search for them throughout the website. Additionally, I think these modules are fine located in the right hand, smaller column.

I would prefer Neighborhood Posts to be above Comments, but actually like the "Is Good" module to remain at the bottom of the main content column, below Neighborhood Activity. I just noticed that Vox removed the Neighborhood Media category featured in the previous release. I didn't check that often, but it was nice to have. (I know you can't add that, but I should probably include this in my feedback to Vox.) I like what's included on the homepage, so I vote against hiding/removing anything with the script.

While on the topic, but which would require a separate script, can you add links to the navigation located at the bottom of every Vox page? It would be nice to be able to access Team Vox's news/blog and the Vox Reader (VoxWatch) from any page. (I have already requested this numerous times in Vox feedback.)
Thanks for the input.

It would be relatively easy to put together a separate script to insert those links in the footer on every page - since Vox uses CSS heavily, it would even appear to be part of the rest of the page, I think.

So I could modify it to be:

You: Blog Profile Library VoxWatch Neighborhood Groups
Explore: Vox News Culture Entertainment etc...
About: (remains the same)

What do you think? I'll add that to my todo-list...shouldn't take but a little coding time to get it in shape, test, etc.
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I like having the neighborhood updates at the top; however I do think it's kind of counterintuitive to have the comments before the posts. So I would organize the left column like this:

1. Neighborhood posts
2. Neighborhood comments
3. This is good
4. No one wants to look dumb (unless that's an ad?)
5. Neighbor activity

As for the right column, as long as the QotD and Vox Hunt are on top, everything else is all the same to me.

Looking forward to the script!

You: Blog Profile Library VoxWatch Neighborhood Groups
Explore: Vox News Culture Entertainment etc...
About: (remains the same)

What do you think?

Thank you!!! :D

I like the order for the "You" category links, but I'm not sure if Vox News should be placed in Explore (as you have it listed) or in About (as "News" just before Help). I'm sort of leaning towards "About." Since Help and Feedback are resources, and Team Vox's blog is geared towards releases and tips on using Vox features, News might be better suited for the "About" list, especially since the "Explore" links are more focused on personal blog posts and media.
Noted - it's in my todo list, so I'm sure I'll get to it in the next week sometime.

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