Um, changes?


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Sovereign Court

I have just noticed that all of the subforums got rolled into one forum. While i am certain this reduces clutter, it just confuses the heck out of me, and also, I now find it really difficult to access the forum from a mobile device (and i spend most of my time away from home, working, so this forum is my place of refuge while spending hours in public transportation).

Just to be clear, i don't mind the new layout, but i have a suggestion:

Don't allow for different subforum stuff to mix. Now i need two or three clicks per subforum to open threads i want to read. And that is hard on a 3.8" screen, let me tell you that.

Paizo Employee PostMonster General

If you're seeing *all* the subforums smooshed together into a single listing, see if you've clicked the flatten/unflatten link at the top of the page.

Sovereign Court

Not all of them. BUt for instance, Gamer life subforum now looks like this

EDIT: Also, it still says FLATTEN on the top right.

Paizo Employee PostMonster General

I guess I should mention also that yes we are experimenting with some minor tweaks to the main messageboards page.

Some forums now have icons to make them easier to find when you're scanning down the page. We may add more of these and/or standardize them so they're more visually similar. Or we might remove them entirely if people hate them.

A few less-active forums with multiple subforums are being combined into single sections on the main page now too, e.g., Gamer Life. This is mostly to help de-clutter the page.


I was wondering why I couldn't find the Video Games forum.

Now I have to go a level down to find the posts I want.

Bleh. :/

Sovereign Court

Gamer life is less active? Really?

Paizo Employee PostMonster General

Sure, look at the main Gamer Life page and see how many threads were active in the past 24 hours. It's far less than many other forums here.

Anyway I think I have an adjustment to the display that might improve it but it's lunchtime.

Dark Archive

Not really liking the layout change to be honest. For one thing where is the video game forum? Also not really liking the icons

Paizo Employee PostMonster General

I've reverted the display for Gamer Life and the Gaming forum for now. Nobody likes change that takes stuff away. If we try this again we'll make sure that all subforums are navigable from the main page.

Thanks for the feedback everybody!

Sovereign Court

Well, we love spending time on this forum.


Pathfinder Adventure Path, Rulebook, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
Hama wrote:
Well, we love spending time on this forum.

Here, here.

Sovereign Court

Please separate gamer talk at least from, TV,Music,movies,books,underwater basket weaving, etc, etc

Dark Archive

Unfortunatly all the condensing does is ensure I'll no longer check out Video gaming threads.


Gary Teter wrote:
I've reverted the display for Gamer Life and the Gaming forum for now.

Thank you for that. Some of my favorite stuff is in those forums. And for those who disagree, surely it couldn't be THAT hard to ignore!


I like the icons but I would rather have them on the left, I would probably shift your left hand pods to the right hand side to avoid eye clutter if you do that.


Gary Teter wrote:
Some forums now have icons to make them easier to find when you're scanning down the page. We may add more of these and/or standardize them so they're more visually similar. Or we might remove them entirely if people hate them.

I find them annoying at the moment, but I suspect that's because they're new and it looks like a glitch when I'm scrolling down the page quickly.

One pretty minor tweak I'd make is to lower the icon slightly. Given the spacing at the bottom of the 'preceding' forum, it's not immediately apparent (to me at least) whether the icon is for the subforum below it or above it.

(When I look at the advice forum, for example, the Pathfinder RPG logo appears to be a signature of the Paizo forum rather than a heading of the Advice forum).

Silver Crusade

Neat.


Just checked the new look on my mobile. I like it a lot - I'd like more icons!!!


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will we get a FaWtL logo for Off Topics ?

pretty please?


Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

There are at least 2 pieces of FAWTL artwork that could be used.

Liberty's Edge

I actually don't like how things look on my iPhone now. All the forum thread titles are smooshed along the left side instead of flowing nicely across the screen like they used to. Maybe the new logos are pushing the text over to the left?

I second the idea that if we have to have these logos they would be better along the left side, above the topic they pertain to. The'ye kind of orphaned over there on the right

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