Rant: I hate the Forum Home, it sucks.

sforum said:
I have exactly the opposite problem! In my opinion, the most intuitive way to use any forum is to log-on and immediately click the "What's New?" link (or equivalent), so you can review all new posts since your last visit, regardless of where they have been posted.

However, I frequently get people complaining if I move (for example) a computing thread from General Chat to the Computing node, saying "I put it in General as I never go in Computing cos it doesn't interest me - can you put it back?" or similar! So it seems my users do know how to click a category; I just wish they would use "Whats New?" and get stuck into everything, rather than just assuming stuff posted in categories they usually aren't interested in isn't for them!
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That can't work that well unless you visit every hour. You will end up with a sea of post.
 
ive always wondered why the xf 'forumhome' doesnt exploit the social aspect of xf. something more like a hybrid timeline/recent activity/ispy. something that relates more to the people you follow, what they say, what they are doing, and so on, with an option to navigate to (or even default to) the stale 1990's forumhome.
 
dieketzer said:
ive always wondered why the xf 'forumhome' doesnt exploit the social aspect of xf. something more like a hybrid timeline/recent activity/ispy. something that relates more to the people you follow, what they say, what they are doing, and so on, with an option to navigate to (or even default to) the stale 1990's forumhome.
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http://xenforo.com/community/recent-activity/

Umm yeah I'll pass on that. This is a forum, not Facebook, I don't need to know (or care) what everyone's doing at the moment. If you don't have a page that lists all the forums, how is a member supposed to find the correct forum to post their thread in? It seems that people are using the forumhome as their site home and IMO that's not what it's intended for.
 
Shelley said:
A little unrelated but something that has irritated me greatly recently is that visitorpanel in pages where it doesn't need to be displayed in. I know I'm viewing I don't need to be shown it.

http://xenforo.com/community/recent-activity/
Coversations/pm area
http://xenforo.com/community/members/
http://xenforo.com/community/online/
http://xenforo.com/community/members/
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What bothers me is the recent activity page and the news feed page. They are essentially the same thing but with different looks to it. On top of that, it can be condensed into 1 page and have a filter instead. Multiple filters would be nice...to see the people you follow's posts, threads, status updates, likes, etc. I think those pages are being underutilized, especially since we do have a "follow" feature. Most of my members don't even know either of those pages exist. They request it and then I point it out and they are like "Oh...".
 
Here is an example of a Forum Home I like:

forum.home.for.products.webp


Simple.
Image + Text.
 
I remember someone made some decent mockups of improving the dull pages... I think it was Princeton and Shelley.

They were awesome.
 
AzzidReign said:
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You're pretty spot on. I think it's kind of what Quora is trying to accomplish. A mix of a forum and a wiki where users can answers questions/discuss as well as vote up good answers, respond to answers, and even edit the original post if it's a wiki style question.

Then their boards have the latest threads/postings as well as the ability to follow/like a board and see wiki info about it.

I just wish someone would look at Quora and other social sites and implement some of their better features with Xenforo.
 
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