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Looking to add a message board/forum to site
We're trying to figure out the best (and free) way to implement a message board feature on our prep sports website. Anyone using one? Any suggestions? Thanks!

More than 10 "similar topics" when you search community.townnews posts
Every time I have a question for this community I want to make sure someone else hasn't asked it before. I even did it for this question. /meta This may be beyond TownNews' ability to customize as I'm not sure about how UserEcho works. But when I search for something like "section tag" I know there have to be more than 10 results and I don't want to take away votes from another established topic by creating a new topic that could be exactly the same as a previous one.
So is this something that can be done?
I had another question/topic but I'll ask it another day. I decided today was the day I'd finally ask about more search results.

Hi Nick,
After some digging around in UserEcho's settings, I found that it is possible to change the number of "similar topics" displayed below the search box. It defaults to 10, but I've increased it to 20 for the time being. Let us know if this is more useful . . . increasing it beyond 20 started to make the page feel pretty unwieldy.
Aaron Gillette
Marketing director
TownNews.com

Feature Request: Add geo location target for serving Banner Ads
Our advertisers would like to target Countries or States or even Cities for their banner ads. Some examples would be to target Canadians (Winter Visitors) at certain times of year, Military communities as they look to relocate, or Mexico site users on the weekends. In some cases, the advertiser can only sell to people in our state or are trying to target visitors from a neighboring state.
Our request is to be able to target Countries, States or even Cities for banner ads.

Hi Lisa!
I was able to figure out your site based on your email address, so it looks like you are indeed using Ad Manager.
If so, yes, we can target banner ads by geo-location in Ad Manager. Here are the docs:
http://help.bloxcms.com/knowledge-base/applications/marketplace/banner_ads/workspace/article_c78ca706-2beb-11e5-b97e-8b48b6ba52c6.html
Look for the part titled "Geo Targeting."
I will say that we are using IP address lookup to figure out the geo location, and on desktops this is a bit wonky since your ISP may report that you're in, for example, Virginia, because that's where your ISP is. (But you're in New York.)
On mobile, which is a majority of traffic on most sites, the geo-location information is much better and we use this information for ad targeting.
One more thing, I should take a moment to mention our ad targeting program for DFP, TownNews.com iQ. This program, in combination with the Google DFP software, can provide a much finer-grained targeting of users based on a variety of data (such as subscription information). If you have any questions, please ask your sales representative! :)

Join us | Optimizing your BLOX CMS site for speed
At our July customer webinar, Christine Masters, director of product management, will highlight insider tips and techniques to help make your BLOX CMS site faster than ever.
We'll cover:
- Understanding the need for speed and how TownNews.com's Flex Templates can help reduce load times.
- Evaluating ads, third-party add-ons and other factors that can slow down your site.
- Creating page size & load time budgets to help you stay on track when designing pages and adding new content.
- Future upgrades to rendering, CSS and much more!

Webinar recording: What's new in BLOX Live e-Editions & BLOX Total CMS
At our June webinar, Rich Griffin (BLOX Live e-Editions product manager) and Jon Winters (BLOX Total CMS product architect) discussed the latest updates and new revenue opportunities.
Highlights include:
- Generating revenue with ne banner ad positions for BLOX Live e-Editions.
- Increasing user engagement with cutout asset upgrades.
- Creating a better reader experience with simplified jump segmentation.
- Saving time with improved asset merging and page replication in BLOX Total CMS.
- And much, much more!
For more information, watch the recorded webinar today!

Business card: Business (Flex)
Is there a way to have mapping as an option on the flex block : Business card : Business (Flex).
The block for Calendar: Card Event has a mapping option. It would be nice to have mapping as an option for the business blocks as well.
Thanks,
Sarah

How come when you type replies in articles paragraphs are not allowed?
How come when you type replies in articles comment section paragraphs are not allowed?
Thanks.

GeoIP/Geolocations to customize website experience for users
Additionally this could be expanded to allow site designers to develop blocks that would dynamically deliver the most relevant content based on a users location i.e. weather, news, offers, etc.

Join us | How to generate more revenue with BLOX Live e-Editions

At our June customer webinar, Rich Griffin (BLOX Live e-Editions product manager) and Jon Winters (BLOX Total CMS product architect) will discuss the latest updates and new revenue opportunities.
We'll cover:
- Generating revenue with new banner ad positions for BLOX Live e-Editions.
- Increasing user engagement with cutout asset upgrades.
- Saving time with improved asset merging and simplified page replication in BLOX Total CMS
- And much, much more!

Feature request: Add photo gallery to poll assets
Polls are awesome. They'd be more awesome if I could add images as child assets and have those images show up as a photo gallery. (If you add photos to a poll asset now, they show up as cards under the poll.) This of the "who wore it best" polls you could do! The contest-type polls! Anyone else interested?

Mugshots and mobile
The mugshot presentation style is great for desktop users, but awful for mobile users, and we have more mobile users than desktop.
Here's what I mean by awful: Say you have a story with two photos and two mugshots (using the mugshot presentation style on those two photo assets).
Desktop view: Headline, two photos at the top of the story in a gallery format, two mugshots in the left rail and the story in the larger portion of the page.
Mobile view: Headline, mugshot, mugshot (they're stacked), photos in a gallery format, then the story. You're in real trouble if you have a story with more than a couple of mugshots.
I want to change this — and I think it should be a global change. Ideally, on mobile the mugshots would be part of the photo gallery — the order in which they're added as child assets would be the order they appear in the mobile photo gallery.
Anyone else in favor?

Webinar recording: Spring cleaning 101
At our May customer webinar, Christine Masters, director of product management, discussed a variety of ways to refresh and renew your website.
Highlights include:
- Keeping your site up-to-date by cleaning out old blocks, auditing your admins and evaluating your ads.
- Freshening up your front page with new display blocks.
- Making sure your site is mobile-ready and search optimized.
- And much, much more!
For more information, watch the recorded webinar today!

Instant Articles
Now that Facebook instant articles is live for all publishers, can you update how we incorporate this into the BLOX system.

Hi Paul! We are working with two papers to do a live test before releasing this to all sites. We've already had to make several updates to our Facebook Instant Articles feed based on our first live tests. But, neither of the two papers have been approved. Once that happens we'll do an announcement. :)

Join us | Spring cleaning 101: Easy tips for optimizing your BLOX CMS site!
Spring cleaning 101: Easy tips for optimizing your BLOX CMS site!
We'll cover:
- Keeping your site up-to-date by cleaning out old blocks, auditing your admins and evaluating your ads.
- Freshening up your front page with new display blocks.
- Making sure your site is mobile-ready and search optimized.
- And much, much more! Join us on Thursday, May 5th at 10:30 AM CDT.

facebook instant articles right to left
Does anyone know weather facebook instant articles are about to support right to left languages such as hebrew?
thanks:)

Yes. Having tested IA today, you can simply edit the code of the published post and make sure the html tag has the direction attribute set to right-to-left: <html dir="rtl">
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