main forum page get new look?

[Rystil Arden]

(Edit: This post became pointless as I was typing it--Thanks Spoony!)

 

[Michael Morris]

Don't worry about it. The more I looked at it, the more *I* didn't like it. Switched it back mostly (thought the main categories now have descriptions - that I do like a bit -- thoughts?)

 

[Henry]

Michael's just trying to make it take less than 20 seconds to scroll down to Meta. Give him time to see what works.

EDIT: And speaking of obsolete messages... I see you changed it back.

I admit it's becoming harder to see the whole list, but I'll admit I still like seeing and being able to jump to the most recent post in each forum. I didn't really feel comfy with the other formats, either, but if we had to do something different, the one with all the sub-forums linked in a paragraph seemed to work.

 

[Crothian]

I was kinda liking the other way...then it gets changed back...my brains going to explode.....

 

[Crothian]

(thought the main categories now have descriptions - that I do like a bit -- thoughts?)

I like that bit

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Don't worry about it. The more I looked at it, the more *I* didn't like it. Switched it back mostly (thought the main categories now have descriptions - that I do like a bit -- thoughts?)

I do like the descriptions.

 

[Kylara]

Maybe you can set it up so that people can hide entire forum areas, and onl have those areas that they choose to be expanded, ie, I only read the General, Talking the Talk, Playing the Game, and the Books/TV/Sci Fi/Fantasy forum areas. Allow people to hide those areas that they don't use.

Or set it up that the sub forums are hidden by default, but you can work them like you work windows explorer with little plus boxes that expand to show the sub forums when you click on the plus.

 

[Michael Morris]

Ugly as sin, and illegible to boot. If you are going to inflict this, can we at least have an option to see it in the way it used to be?

The difference between the two is a single variable, so making it user controllable is possible. I don't think anyone likes the other way though.

 

[reveal]

Maybe you can set it up so that people can hide entire forum areas, and onl have those areas that they choose to be expanded, ie, I only read the General, Talking the Talk, Playing the Game, and the Books/TV/Sci Fi/Fantasy forum areas. Allow people to hide those areas that they don't use.

Or set it up that the sub forums are hidden by default, but you can work them like you work windows explorer with little plus boxes that expand to show the sub forums when you click on the plus.

If you look on the right side of the screen, there are little boxes with minus signs on them. Clicking those will collapse the section you don't want to see. It doesn't hide them, but it's the next best thing.

I was actually going to suggest, if it's possible, allowing the individual the ability to order the forums from top to bottom. So the one's they visit more often are at the top and the one's they visit less frequently can be near the bottom.

 

[Kylara]

If you look on the right side of the screen, there are little boxes with minus signs on them. Clicking those will collapse the section you don't want to see. It doesn't hide them, but it's the next best thing.

I was actually going to suggest, if it's possible, allowing the individual the ability to order the forums from top to bottom. So the one's they visit more often are at the top and the one's they visit less frequently can be near the bottom.

Wow, thanks, never noticed that.

What would make it perfect though, is if you could simply specifiy that you wanted to only see X,Y, and Z sub forums, and have everything else hidden, (hidden in that only the major forum categories show up)