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Poll: Posting of long Fest trip reports (6 member(s) have cast votes)

How do you prefer to read the longer Fest trip reports being posted to the Forums?

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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 03 April 2016 - 01:37 PM

Since we are new at putting Fest trip reports on the Forums, it has come to light that there are many ways to do this given the board software to work with.  Shorter Fest reports, namely those from the Winter meets that only last 2 or 3 short days, look fine posted in their entirety in one thread (as the second option in the poll).   Longer Fest reports, which are generated from the Summer events when we travel for 6-12 longer days, require a lot of scrolling when posted this way.
 
The ACRF 2013 report was originally posted using the first option in the poll, namely creating separate threads for chapters with an index at the beginning to bring the reader to a particular chapter.  Less scrolling but more clicking between threads.  Navigation was added at the bottom to bring the reader to the next chapter and/or back to the main page.  If this option is chosen, one change is that the separate threads will be moved to a subforum so they don't clutter the topic listing in the main Trip Reports forum.
 
The same report has been posted in the Testing Forum using the second option in the poll (one long thread with no breaks), and again using the third option (separate responses for each subsequent chapter).  More scrolling but less navigation required.
 
We would like to make these as user-friendly as possible, so please vote on which option looks best to you as the reader.


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Posted 14 April 2016 - 12:48 AM

Folks this poll is still open. I see so far unanimous results but I want to keep it open a full 2 weeks before ending it to give those who may not have seen it a chance to vote.

 

I will close it sometime on Sunday, April 17th so if you haven't voted but wish to, please feel free to do so!



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Posted 17 April 2016 - 11:15 AM

Poll is now closed as promised as of April 17th.

For the Atlantic Coast RailFest 2013, I am rolling in the chosen version as the main one, and am deleting the others. Subsequent reports published have already been posted in the format unanimously chosen, as will those in the future. Also the links that were in the above parent note when this poll was started have been removed since what 2 of them pointed to was also removed.


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