Oooooo! Sub-Forums! Is that new or am I just blind?
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Tigratrus
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Oh great... Now I have to be concerned about either my eyesight, general awareness, or sanity.
Great way to start the day
welshstew
Active member
Oh great... Now I have to be concerned about either my eyesight, general awareness, or sanity.
Great way to start the day
Not enough coffee...
Grover
Well-known member
Make the subforums more visible
Actually, you've just demonstrated in practice why more people will not see the sub forums at first glance: they are just not visible enough (hidden) behind a little arrow. This, is even more an issue I foresee compared to the forum descriptions not visible without having to mouse-over the forumtitle. I love the elegance of XenForo, but there are occasions when it is best to keep the usability in mind over design. I feel these are the only two major instances where the UI could be improved. Kier explained that the forumdescriptions are a simple template edit. I hope the same goes for the non-visability of the subforums.
Actually, you've just demonstrated in practice why more people will not see the sub forums at first glance: they are just not visible enough (hidden) behind a little arrow. This, is even more an issue I foresee compared to the forum descriptions not visible without having to mouse-over the forumtitle. I love the elegance of XenForo, but there are occasions when it is best to keep the usability in mind over design. I feel these are the only two major instances where the UI could be improved. Kier explained that the forumdescriptions are a simple template edit. I hope the same goes for the non-visability of the subforums.
Nick
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There's a thread that discusses this somewhere, but as usual, I can't find it.
Nick
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It's new as in it wasn't there when the forums were originally created
It's been there ever since I've been around / since the sub-forums were added.
Disjunto
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It's been there ever since I've been around / since the sub-forums were added.
I'm pretty sure there weren't any sub forums when I signed up, might have only been for a few hours when the added the Resolved Bug Reports sub forum
Onimua
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It's been there ever since I've been around / since the sub-forums were added.
No, it wasn't.
Sub-forums came a bit later after the forums opened, and then shortly after there was a menu to get to it from the forum home.
Do sub-sub-forums behave in the same way?
Will for example a sub-forum of Resolved Bug Reports appear in the drop down on forum home or only on the Bug Reports forum?
Any chance of some test sub-forums in the test forum so we can see how it works?
Will for example a sub-forum of Resolved Bug Reports appear in the drop down on forum home or only on the Bug Reports forum?
Any chance of some test sub-forums in the test forum so we can see how it works?
But that's the whole point. They are sub forums after all. If you need people to see something a forum at a glance, make it a top level forum. By nesting these forums underneath top (levels 1 and 2) forums, you have by definition relegated them from primary importance, surely?
Peggy
in memoriam 2016
Really? I think it defines K.I.S.S. very well, in addition to keeping the forumhome clean and tidy.
Alpha1
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Yes and no. I think the idea is great, but the implementation is less. The drop down arrow is hard to find and easy to overlook. Whats in the drop down is bulky.
Kier; could you please try stuffing 30 subforums under 1 parent forum somewhere and letting us play with the drop down?
I think the idea to hide subforums in a collapsible way, is brilliant though.