Adding quick-access system specifications topic sidebar

[kingmustard]

Maybe something along the lines of this:

 

[SignatureSigner]

This is a thing?

You can use the system specs block on your profile for this..

[Master Disaster]

Click your username on the top right > Profile > Edit Profile > Scroll down to the bottom > ?? > Profit

[Dedayog]

4 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Click your username on the top right > Profile > Edit Profile > Scroll down to the bottom > ?? > Profit

Not much profit in that.  I do and no chicks, no cocaine, no sports contracts have come my way

 

I like his idea.  Better than the post # that is nothing more than epeen, or the location that no one uses anyway.

[kingmustard]

3 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

Not much profit in that.  I do and no chicks, no cocaine, no sports contracts have come my way

 

I like his idea.  Better than the post # that is nothing more than epeen, or the location that no one uses anyway.

Good point.

 

 

[LogicalDrm]

Checking specs for those who don't have them listed in signature is single click. Considering how long the lines could get, and that this would only work on desktop, I don't really see the point.

[Spotty]

You already have your specs listed in your forum signature which shows below each post, along with a link to a PCPP list in your signature as well. You also have the system specs filled out on your profile, and again along with a PCPP list. That gives people 4 different ways of reading what your system specs are. Do you really need a 5th way to show off your specs?

[kingmustard]

Just now, Spotty said:

You already have your specs listed in your forum signature which shows below each post, along with a link to a PCPP list in your signature as well. You also have the system specs filled out on your profile, and again along with a PCPP list. That gives people 4 different ways of reading what your system specs are. Do you really need a 5th way to show off your specs?

I disable signatures so I wasn't aware of that.

 

Due to this, I believed the only way you could view the specifications were to click on the profile, and many probably wouldn't know specifications were in profiles, so it was just an idea

[LogicalDrm]

1 hour ago, kingmustard said:

I disable signatures so I wasn't aware of that.

 

Due to this, I believed the only way you could view the specifications were to click on the profile, and many probably wouldn't know specifications were in profiles, so it was just an idea

The specs would still need to be listed in profile to allow such popup. Which makes this even more pointless.

[pythonmegapixel]

If you were just going to pull through the specs from peoples profile, then you'd end up with them appearing on posts where they're not relevant. For example, I don't really need a full spec list to walk someone through how to boot off a USB stick.

 

If you're going to make people fill it in manually for every post, then surely the people who don't list their specs normally aren't going to list them this way either?

[kingmustard]

Just now, pythonmegapixel said:

If you were just going to pull through the specs from peoples profile, then you'd end up with them appearing on posts where they're not relevant. For example, I don't really need a full spec list to walk someone through how to boot off a USB stick.

 

If you're going to make people fill it in manually for every post, then surely the people who don't list their specs normally aren't going to list them this way either?

It grabs the data from the profile; you have to click on the "x's system' link for the overlay to appear, so it's very compact.

 

It's very useful on a tech support forum.

[colonel_mortis]

I'm not totally opposed to this idea. However, I wonder how often it would actually be useful - my intuition is that the intersection of people who actually fill in their system specs on their profile, and those who don't include the relevant specs in their posts, is pretty small. If there is useful coverage there though, I can see value in adding some way of viewing someone's specs from a post, either as a button in the poster block or as a button in the user hovercard. It's not a super straight forward thing to add though, so it probably won't happen in the immediate future.