No, rather by category and relevance. For example: if you run a phones forum, it makes more sense to put the forum on a specific Nokia model under the main nokia forum. Even if that forum is most popular.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?
Kier; could you please try stuffing 30 subforums under 1 parent forum somewhere and letting us play with the drop down?
The reason I ask is that I wonder if a high number of subforums will cause problems for the page, because the drop down becomes too long. The order seems vertical only, so it seems like the end of the page is quickly reached or the drop down will expand to outside the screen.
The examples in that thread do not show that.
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?
'overflow: auto' to the rescue
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?
That would depend on the site. I use a hack for most of my sites to help control how the sub-forums are displayed. For us its not that the the info in the sub-forums is not as important but to help keep the forum list from being pages and pages long. Also it allows us to keep info somewhat separated so that the users can hopefully find what they are looking for easier.
Well... almost okay.
When you look at http://www.phpbb.com/community/ and then click the Category 'phpBB 3.0.x', you see this:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewforum.php?f=49
All the subforums that were just little links on the frontpage, are now much more easily visible/accessible/readable on this overview. You see, there you are presented with the amounts of postings, topics and you have convenient forum descriptions (something I really miss in XenForo, because you are depended on mouse-overing every Forumtitle to found out what they are about: please change this back to normal static descriptions) for the enduser to look at. You can NOT see all this on the frontpage... there they are just little links. I say it's a BIG difference actually... you just 'unfold' the category as it were and you get much more information. So it's not exactly the same information actually.
As Brogan above rightfully points out: it's quite useful.
- Forum descriptions only show on mouse-over. Making it hard for new users to our platform to see at a glance what the forums are about
What's the point of going to a page that's going to show you exactly what you see on the forumhome?
- Categories can not be unfolded (when you click on a Category in XenForo, nothing happens), see this remark from another discussion about it:
It doesn't on other forum software.What's the point of going to a page that's going to show you exactly what you see on the forumhome?
What's the point of going to a page that's going to show you exactly what you see on the forumhome?
When you look at http://www.phpbb.com/community/ and then click the Category 'phpBB 3.0.x', you see this:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewforum.php?f=49
All the subforums that were just little links on the frontpage, are now much more easily visible/accessible/readable on this overview. You see, there you are presented with the amounts of postings, topics and you have convenient forum descriptions (something I really miss in XenForo, because you are depended on mouse-overing every Forumtitle to found out what they are about: please change this back to normal static descriptions) for the enduser to look at. You can NOT see all this on the frontpage... there they are just little links. I say it's a BIG difference actually... you just 'unfold' the category as it were and you get much more information. So it's not exactly the same information actually.
As Brogan above rightfully points out: it's quite useful.
What I said earlier:
Because the category view shows active topics from all forums and sub-forums.If you really wanted that information, why wouldn't you just open/enter the sub-forum instead of viewing the info from the category page?
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?
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