Rant: I hate the Forum Home, it sucks.

[Digital Doctor]

aka, this page.
http://xenforo.com/community/

It's so long and boring.

It's not a Xenforo thing. It's all forums. Every one of them.

I compared all the forum homes previously [see here]

What does your look like ? Did you mod it ?

Surely something better could be done ?

 

[3rd AnGle]

Surely something better could be done ?

Like removing off-topic forum so that we don't get to rant & troll

 

[Digital Doctor]

It's not really trolling. It deals with an important topic which is relatively central to forum software.
I think what you are saying is you have no ideas ?

 

[3rd AnGle]

Heh i just noticed something... just as i posted my last comment and clicked "what's new".. i got an alert for the like.. It's too fast to be believable.. it was not even 3 secs since i posted.. Is there an auto-like feature or something?

 

[Digital Doctor]

Heh i just noticed something... just as i posted my last comment and clicked "what's new".. i got an alert for the like.. It's too fast to be believable.. it was not even 3 secs since i posted.. Is there an auto-like feature or something?

Something weird just happened to me as well.



When I refreshed, (just before the last image) it resolved.
Some javascripty glitch ?

ok. rlly l8 now.

 

[Sador]

I hate that the "home" button on the forum sends you to xenforo.com, rather than the forum home. It just doesn't feel naturally.

 

[euantor]

I hate that the "home" button on the forum sends you to xenforo.com, rather than the forum home. It just doesn't feel naturally.

Same with clicking the logo. I always click the logo of a site to go to the index. It feels unnatural to go up a whole directory.

 

[CTXMedia]

Quite a few of my members tell me they don't really use the home page - they just read the site via the What's New? navigation link.

 

[Brandon Sheley]

Change the home page up if you don't like it.
I've seen some rather impressive setups, people take the time to organize the sections with different colors, as well as unique icons.
I think those two things will help tremendously

 

[James]

Why not just write your forum index to something else (like recent activity or what's new) to make it more interesting?

 

[CTXMedia]

Why not just write your forum index to something else (like recent activity or what's new) to make it more interesting?

... or maybe a "Jump to Random Post" add-on that just plonks you in the middle of a thread somewhere ... - could be fun!

 

[Digital Doctor]

... or maybe a "Jump to Random Post" add-on that just plonks you in the middle of a thread somewhere ... - could be fun!

Mockup.

heh.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I did rate Xenforo as the best Forum Home.
But it still sucks.
bad.

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...f-phpbb3-smf-xenforo-vbulletin-and-ipb.18012/

Anyone seen a good Forum Home ?

I thought up a design that I think is better .... but I'm trolling for ideas first.

Q: Does anyone know if Search Engines like Forum Homes ?

 

[0xym0r0n]

Most of my users sit in the recent activity area or on the xenporta portal home.
I hate to say that most of my users aren't forum savvy and that's why they resort to this. Something about clicking a category seems to complicated for them. It's insane.

I was debating building a new page that kinda of is pinterest/facebook group/twitter inspired. Theirs two development turtorials that could be modified to make this happen. I think that if that was my forum index. I'd get a lot more activity.

I think it might be too many queries or too much load though. Unless I narrowed it down to under 5 topics and had a way to truncate all posts until the most recent pots (like facebook does)

 

[kkm323]

I do agree with you maybe we should add recent activity and recent post and threads in widget either in the sidebar or in the top of forum-list

 

[CTXMedia]

Last 10 active threads would be a good sidebar widget.

 

[CTXMedia]

Trending topics (most busy in past X hours) widget?

 

[DBA]

aka, this page.
http://xenforo.com/community/

It's so long and boring.

It's not a Xenforo thing. It's all forums. Every one of them.

What does your look like ? Did you mod it ?

Surely something better could be done ?

What do you envision that it should look like?

 

[dutchbb]

I think it's up to admins to make the forum home page look more interesting. We integrated pictures from the gallery which helps a lot and is a good way to increase photo traffic.

 

[Gabby]

Its butt ugly