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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seonaid" data-source="post: 1283186" data-attributes="member: 11195">My two cents, if this is still in debate:I'm confused by two things. First has been said already, and that is--why are the restricted forums on the front page? I never understood that. It seems kind of elitist and "nyah nyah nyah" to me.Second, though, is this: why the concern with space at all? I'm on a dinky dial-up and the page doesn't take that long to load, and I don't have any problems with finding what I need.If the concern is drawing new people and making sure they understand what's going on, I think one of the big changes that needs to be made is getting rid of the restricted forums (putting them as sub-forums, as has been noted previously). Also, it seems to me that there's a lot of "wasted" space at the top of the front page and the bottom of the front page. The bottom in particular could be crunched a little, keeping the same information but with less "white" space (even though it's not white <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />). And what's the deal with the five lines of text at the top? Is that necessary? I have to say that, the first time I logged in as a Community Supporter, it surprised me to see the "Community Supporter" link at the top of the page. Maybe it's a script thing (I'm not familiar with anything beyond basic HTML), but it made me feel kind of unwelcome. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Is there some way to have certain things shown only to Community Supporters (or to non-Supporters)? I haven't been on the front page without logging in for a while, so maybe it's completely different, and maybe it has to do with the board format I'm using, but I would think that the same basic thing should be available to everyone.One last thing--why is the "Who's Online" link not available on the front page? Am I missing it? I always access it through the drop-down menus at the bottom of pages, but that means I have to actually open a thread first. Yeah, big deal, right? I guess not, but it's a little thing I miss from before the restructuring.I dunno, this is kind of spastic, but those are my thoughts. I'm feeling a bit incoherent, so excuse anything that doesn't make sense, and if it's all explained away easily, great. Like someone (Mirth?) said, I'm sure the right decisions will be made, and perhaps the current ones were made using information I'm not privy to, or scripting woes I wouldn't know about, but I figured I'd drop a line anyway.</blockquote>

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