The question was asked here a couple of years ago. There were a few replies indicating people thought the notion worthy and no replies indicating why snippet nodes shouldn't be front paged. Nothing happened.

Is there a reason that snippet nodes should not be able to be front paged? If not, is there enough support for the idea that it should be implemented?

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Re: Should snippet nodes be front pageable?
by castaway (Parson) on Oct 27, 2005 at 08:26 UTC
    The only reason I can think of against it offhand, would be that code/snippet nodes tend to be long in actual content, and we'd have to just display the text parts. Currently the frontpaging code only deals with displaying entire doctexts of document type nodes, and not special fields, which snippet has. Not that they wouldn't be impossible to add though.

    Other than that, I tend to watch neither the Gates nor the Snippet section, so I don't mind either way.

    I may be interested in a "Best Snippets" though, arranged by Rep and/or "Type" somehow..

    C.

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      I may be interested in a "Best Snippets" though, arranged by Rep and/or "Type" somehow..

      I think it's hard to say what snippets are good or bad by their reputation, cause a lot of folks seems to ignore them and so they get less votes. And of course it's very different what someone finds usefull and what not.

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        I tend to agree; and the same is true of Tutorials and Meditations as well. I rather like the way it's typically done now, which is that people can list their favorite nodes on their homenodes. For example, see Most popular links on homenodes.

        We're building the house of the future together.
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      That's why we have readmore tags.

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        snippets work a little differently then most node types. they intrinsicly have a "description" field which is seperate from the code field. The section page displays the description, but never displays the code. presumably if they were front pageable, the front page should behave the same way.

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Re: Should snippet nodes be front pageable?
by hossman (Prior) on Oct 27, 2005 at 20:56 UTC

    The same argument could be made about Code Catacombs.

    This is one of the reasons I lamented the loss of Craft ... perhaps Snippets and Catacombs should be deprecated, and Craft should be reincarnated?

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