Yes. 2.3.Hello, I'm thinking about buying a license, but the appearance of the xenoforo forum leaves much to be desired ... it just looks old. Are there any plans to refresh the look according to the latest UI/UX standards?
Younger users are becoming accustom to an algorithm determining their interests and then spoon feeding them the content via a feed. There are people of age that only remember that type of social interaction and never had to select a category or anything.I've been using forums since 2001 so i know how they work, and so do most people my age. But show a forum to someone who is 20 and watch their reaction. The UI is dated. Young people today want something simpler and more intuitive, especially on mobile.
Those who think design from the 1990s is still relevant can continue to live in denial, but the decline in the number of forum installs in the last 10 years speaks much louder than I ever could.
Have done so... and they were able to figure it out fairly quickly... in fact, my 32 year old son (very active on a few Corvette forums and Tacoma ones) and 29 year daughter were able to figure out how several years ago. I guess your position is that the youth today are too stupid to figure it out and need pictures and automation for them?I've been using forums since 2001 so i know how they work, and so do most people my age. But show a forum to someone who is 20 and watch their reaction. The UI is dated. Young people today want something simpler and more intuitive, especially on mobile.
Those who think design from the 1990s is still relevant can continue to live in denial, but the decline in the number of forum installs in the last 10 years speaks much louder than I ever could.
But show a forum to someone who is 20 and watch their reaction. The UI is dated. Young people today want something simpler and more intuitive, especially on mobile.
Yes, but then it's no longer a discussion thread... which calls into question the very essence of forums, a linear discussion organized not a hodgepodge of reactions and onomatopoeia.A 'write a reply box' at the end of the page will not do, the user will need to be able to 'comment' immediately below the post they're reading
Mobiles have presented problems for forums, but I think xenForo has responded (pun intended) well.Young people today want something simpler and more intuitive, especially on mobile.
The oldest forums were not linear but threaded in that exact fashion, though, where you could always reply to a reply explicitly. Things moved linear because it was easier to follow. I'm not sure how Facebook managed to push back on it, to be honest.a linear discussion organized not a hodgepodge of reactions and onomatopoeia.
Circle, too. Took me a while to get used to that style when I joined a site on that platform. Still not my preferred.It's also interesting watching Discourse and Quora (amongst others) attempt to work with the 'reply to a reply' because inevitably people are confused. The number of times I've seen people go 'I meant to reply to x' or 'you commented on a comment, did you mean to reply to x'
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