If possible, I think a Guide on how to navigate and use all the site’s facilities would be a useful improvement, especially if newcomers were unfamiliar with how to find their way through the many available topics – as I was when I first found this, my first ever, Forum.
By trial and error, I discovered many very useful things, such as:
> clicking on any contributor’s name – shown next to their comment – will take you to their Profile and, once there, clicking on ‘Topics Started’ and ‘Replies Created’ will display all their postings.
> if you’re browsing in, say, ‘recent comments’, clicking on the red or blue headlined name of any topic will take you to all the posts made under that topic.
If one has enough time, it can be fun to discover such things for oneself but some people might just get lost and frustrated. Handy Navigation Tips would mean they would be able to get the best from the site and wouldn’t have to re-invent the wheel.
(By the way, I love the new-to-me layout of the Homepage, now displaying a ‘latest on the forums’ column – I haven’t been away from the Forum to go back to the Homepage in ages. Bravo to whoever had a hand in that particular improvement.)
3:18 pm
13 Jun 13