Is there any way to bump" an old article back to the current "Headlines" page? I ask because older articles from many years earlier may not have been seen by newer members of iModeler. An older article might be of interest to current membership and would never be seen by them unless they just came across it by random chance, or by digging back through a member's blog.. Would one have to redo the article for it to appear on the current Headlines? Thanks, and cheers! Gary 🙂

Hi my friend @garybrantley!

As our friend @pb_legend wrote, there's no direct way to bump an older article to the headlines.

If it regards one of YOUR articles, how about that:

1. Go to your old article and download all pics.

2. Create a new article with the same title (maybe adding "repost" or something similar to it).

3. Copy your old text and paste it as text to your new article.

4. Add the downloaded pics.

5. Post the article.

6. Voilà! You have essentially reposted your old article, having also notified readers that this is a repost.

If the article is not yours, but you still feel that "headlines" readers might benefit from it, I see no reason why you shouldn't create a new article, which will contain the article in question as a link, writing that you feel this article is an important one, worth re-seen at the headlines (or something like that). Asking permission to post this link from the original author is something I definitely recommend (it's kind of "obligatory")

Hi Gary @garybrantley, another point to remember is to ensure the correct tags are added to your original article, by doing this someone looking for information on a particular model will find it easily on the iModeler A-Z feature. A bad example of this is Valter's excellent post in the current Headlines, unfortuately the only tag he added was 1/48, meaning you've little chance of finding his post in the future.

Indeed the tags are all-important for ease of finding related stuff. When you make tags remember just kommas, not hashtags! Add a lot of tags and the topics / articles will pop up on screen easily when someone searches for them. For instance, I added the tag nanzan to my build of the same in groups, and when searched two topics pop up, so that term is not an over-used one 🙂

So really, you might go back and tag some of your articles to make them shine! I do post in headlines, but find the groups section very useful. The function of a series of articles in headlines might be useful too (this can not be used in Groups).