"My contacts" link on header?

April 19, 2006 8:37 AM

Pony: Can a "My contacts" link be added next to "My posts" and "My comments"? I like the "My contacts" feature, but I don't use it that often because I have to get to it via my user page, which I can only access from the main pages, not thread pages, so I tend to forget about it. I'd use it more if it was a one click thing in the header.
posted by jacquilynne to Feature Requests at 8:37 AM (14 comments total)

Seconded.

It could go right next to the "My Saved Threads" link. Ahem.
posted by Gamblor at 8:52 AM on April 19, 2006

It's in the footer, look down. I can't really add too much to the top banner, since it breaks <1024px setups and causes a wrap.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:15 AM on April 19, 2006

Huh. Now I feel teh st00p1d.

I was vaguely sort of aware that there was a footer, but hadn't really looked at it.

Cool! Thanks.
posted by jacquilynne at 9:20 AM on April 19, 2006

Mark contact contributions with Greasemonkey. (Self-link)
posted by Plutor at 9:24 AM on April 19, 2006

I'm also tired of having to go to jacquilynne's user page to see her contacts.
posted by Eideteker at 9:33 AM on April 19, 2006

Can we have a link to the footer in the header? And vice versa?

I'm pretty sure I'm kidding.
posted by cortex at 9:38 AM on April 19, 2006

actually a tiny glyph in the header for 'scroll to bottom' and one in the footer ('top') would be really handy for those of us that are scrollbar-impaired.
posted by blue_beetle at 9:44 AM on April 19, 2006

Scroll to top
Scroll to bottom
posted by Plutor at 9:49 AM on April 19, 2006

My God. I never actually looked at the footer. Hey, that's useful!
posted by Miko at 10:08 AM on April 19, 2006

my user page, which I can only access from the main pages, not thread pages

Um, doesn't your name, with a link to your user page, appear after "Posting as:" right above the comment box on any (live) thread? Or is that something Matt coded up all special just for me?
posted by soyjoy at 12:59 PM on April 19, 2006

I don't ever use the footer. I know the idea was copied from Flickr, but I don't use that one either. That big block of text where you have to read all of it to find your link is a nightmare.
posted by smackfu at 12:59 PM on April 19, 2006

(Maybe it would be better w/o the underlines. They make it much busier.)
posted by smackfu at 1:00 PM on April 19, 2006

Actually, I've never noticed the footer really either.

Usability issue?
posted by Drunken_munky at 3:34 PM on April 19, 2006

I use the footer constantly. The issue is that people have come to expect website footers to only contain useless junk about copyright notices and links to "about the company"! This is slowly changing, primarily among the Web 2.0 Crowd, and the trend almost definitely was seeded by the really useful Flickr footer.

Usability-wise, it's a better solution than having fifteen more links in the header.
posted by Plutor at 4:14 AM on April 20, 2006