Suggestion for board feature

Jet Fan RI

Pro Bowl 1st Team
Jet Fanatics
Would it be possible to add links to Jets articles in local papers to the front page of the board? The Jets website did something like that for years, in something they called "clippings." I think that is actually still there, but the trouble is, the links are always 3-4 days after the original articles are posted, so the links are kinda like dead fish. I suspect that was done to try to increase readership of the articles by the team flacks that post articles on the site. I never liked those myself because I figured they were written from a biased point of view, since the writers are paid by the team. So I always only used to read the clippings, and I suspect I wasn't the only one doing that. But I stopped doing that well over a year ago when they continued to serve up only dead fish.

Just a suggestion.
 

Elias

The Invisible Man
Big Fish
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Would it be possible to add links to Jets articles in local papers to the front page of the board? The Jets website did something like that for years, in something they called "clippings." I think that is actually still there, but the trouble is, the links are always 3-4 days after the original articles are posted, so the links are kinda like dead fish. I suspect that was done to try to increase readership of the articles by the team flacks that post articles on the site. I never liked those myself because I figured they were written from a biased point of view, since the writers are paid by the team. So I always only used to read the clippings, and I suspect I wasn't the only one doing that. But I stopped doing that well over a year ago when they continued to serve up only dead fish.

Just a suggestion.

Yes. That's something we've considered and will discuss again. It's a great idea.
 

Jet Fan RI

Pro Bowl 1st Team
Jet Fanatics
Yes. That's something we've considered and will discuss again. It's a great idea.

That's great to hear Elias. And your admin team really has a decent amount of lead time to try to figure out how/if it can be done before there's a significant amount of news to worry about.
 

Elias

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What about a 24/7 Live Webcam on Jets Flight Crew Members?

Yes. That's something we've considered and will discuss again. It's a great idea.

LOL just repeating the same line but in all honestly, i saw the feature that [MENTION=205]Jet Fan RI[/MENTION] is talking about on another board and I think it would be great. I just have to find the correct plugin for vbulletin. I don't think the other site was vbulletin.

Before it would take a bit longer to put things together but now with [MENTION=264]Machina Verde[/MENTION] on board, he's pretty computer savvy so it should be done quicker.
 

hobson54

Transition Tagged
Jet Fanatics
MV was able to set something up on our prior board that also had a twitter feed. while i'm not a twitter-er (although i have been called a twit), i thought it was a great feature
 

Elias

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MV was able to set something up on our prior board that also had a twitter feed. while i'm not a twitter-er (although i have been called a twit), i thought it was a great feature

That was the very first thing we tried putting on here when he got admin access however something is messed up with the code and it didnt put it side by side to the forum but instead all the way at the bottom. Not sure if he tried again since. We did install that on our home page. If you hit home on the top and then scroll down, that is what we are planning to put on our forum as well.
 

jetkwondo

5th Year Team Option
Jet Fanatics
That's great to hear Elias. And your admin team really has a decent amount of lead time to try to figure out how/if it can be done before there's a significant amount of news to worry about.

We used to have a thread on our old Scout board that listed a bunch of sources for getting Jets info. The best one that I got from there and now use everyday is SportSpyder http://sportspyder.com/teams/new-york-jets/news for getting ALL the latest, up to the minute Jets info.
 

jetkwondo

5th Year Team Option
Jet Fanatics
Thanks! That's great. But does it pick up all the articles from all the NY/NJ papers?

Pretty sure they have them all, as long as they're Jet related. I recheck that site every few hours to get all my info. click the link in my post and you'll see...
 

Elias

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We used to have a thread on our old Scout board that listed a bunch of sources for getting Jets info. The best one that I got from there and now use everyday is SportSpyder http://sportspyder.com/teams/new-york-jets/news for getting ALL the latest, up to the minute Jets info.

That looks great. Seems like MV is busy but i'll send him the link to this thread so he can start improving this place!
 

Jet Fan RI

Pro Bowl 1st Team
Jet Fanatics
Pretty sure they have them all, as long as they're Jet related. I recheck that site every few hours to get all my info.

Yes, I am interested in all Jets-related news too. But I want to be sure anything in the NYDN, Post, Times, Star-Ledger, etc. is covered.
 
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