You may think it wasn't broken but this forum was not easily navigable. You just developed muscle memory on where everything is.
Just like you will when you grow used to where everything is now.
Personally, this place needs a revamp design wise like no other web site out there.
I work exclusively in the on-line industry and have seen my share of well put together designs and cohesive websites and FR doesn't sniff that description. I have discussed with John Robinson at length about it and he feels handcuffed because of the vocal minority refusing to accept even convenience changes
You are so right about everyone being used to where things are on the site, but at the heart, it's not very navigable at all. Just look at how many times people post articles (or vanities-GASP!) in Breaking News or such.
I would say that the main way most of us consume this web site's material is by LATEST MESSAGE as this displays what people are most talking about.
That said, targeted content delivery is sorely lacking on FR. As you said, we've all just become accustomed to how it's done it previously, and any change that diminishes that is not well-received.
As a side note, I seem to be getting a lot of THESE today:
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /tag/articles:latest/.
Reason: Error reading from remote server
I have discussed with John Robinson at length about it and he feels handcuffed because of the vocal minority refusing to accept even convenience changes
I have no doubt that upgrading needs to be done. But to change or become the norm as to what others are doing isn’t always the best.
I look at the posted articles pages once in a while. But my basic operating preference on FR is using the latest comments page. The old way you could get on it and refresh it as you wanted. Now you get on it and refresh it and it goes back to the articles pages. Then you have to select comments and let that reload.
The simple solution is to allow those that like to use the latest coments page and refresh it without having to go back to the articles page is to allow a ‘tag’ or whatever is necessary to accomplish that....
Is that unreasonable?
Can you cite the specific improvements we’re seeing this morning? I mean, those we’re seeing when the server doesn’t time out?
Under browse by forum, I clicked “Comments”, and the search box and “RSS...Add to your sidebar” disappeared. How am I supposed to search if I want to see comments instead of articles?
I then clicked “Latest Articles”, and the search box and “RSS...Add to your sidebar” came back. I then clicked “Active Articles”, and they came back, too. But I want to see the comments and be able to search from the same page at the same time, like always, instead of having to click on “Latest Articles” or “Active Articles” to be able to do it. They didn’t just change where links are, ***they changed functionality, too.***
true conservatism sees change as necessary for the preservation of the great blessings we have inherited....I think John and Jim can tinker all they want, LOL