Cluttered Feeling on New Forums
I can’t help but think that the new forums look and feel cluttered. Posts don’t get as much visibility and the various options, sometimes hard to figure out e.g. click no to your question has not been answered, make the new forums give credit to the old saying “Be careful what you ask for!”
I guess is a matter of getting used to it, but it seems like things were easier to find in the old forums.
Just my two cents!
DAL
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Certainly, a challenge with putting everything in one place is that it starts to become overwhelming.
My hope and suspicion is that this forum design is not a one-off thing. @Jason Stone (Logos) seemed to indicate that there is more to come and that there will be some development at least in the near term. This is huge compared to the old forums that were static for years and years.
It took me a bit to calibrate to this new organisation, but for the most part, I am becoming more familiar with how things are done here. YMMV
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Cluttered is not the word I would use- it's has become useless for me. I guess it would happen sooner or later.
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I just miss having easy access to a master list of "Unread Posts". The Home feed of new posts is too short.
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Have you tried ‘view all’? It won’t do the same as ‘unread’, but it does give a longer list.
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I used to read the forums every day and I'm relatively young and tech-savvy, and expected some disorientation with new software. But this forum setup make me feel really lost; it all looks the same, there's no sense of place at all.
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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Hi @Morgan I've found the best method is to use the RECENT POSTS link on the right side of the page
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I agree completely.
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I think as long as Faithlife is excited by the new forum, that's all that matters.
I agree with most of the comments (complaints), probably because the old forum was pretty intuitive-ish and efficient. Some problems (search). I'm not sure how the new one is supposed to work … even the post timestamp (on my Safari) is in the future.
A good suggestion post ('Feedback') I wanted to comment on, by suggesting a better alternative …. which also would answer another feedback request. But my addition would seem rude for a formal feedback entry … the old suggestion forum was a place for banter back and forth relative to a formal feedback entry.
I was pleasantly surprised to see MJ pull ahead in the posting horserace. What if she takes a break??
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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I agree as well. I used to have Feedly point to the old site as an RSS feed which would give me a great overview of new posts, but I don't think that is possible any longer. I am also confused by the new layout…
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To be honest I'm not excited by the new forums. They are hard to navigate, to know exactly where you are or how to quickly to get to where you want. The simple list view of the old forum software was much easier to find your way around. I had no poblem with it on mobile. The list view made it so much simpler to navigate. With these new forums I have to spend a lot more time scrolling and scrolling, whether on the desktop or mobile, to see what I could easily see on one page on my mobile or desktop with the old forum software.
The new forums seem give the impression of something tryng to emulate facebook but does it badly. So much wasted screen space. There are huge margins on my desktop screen on both the left and right hand side that are just sitting there waiting to be used but are ignored. And then here is a time stamp sitting on its own under the member's name that there is plenty of room for it to be displayed at the end of the line above, even with he cramped layout that is ignoring most of the free sreen space. Because there is so much wasted space on any one screen you can only see a very small number of post responses at any on time. To re-affirm wat others have said, I feel lost in these new forums they are not intuitive and most certainly not efficient because the list view is gone, and you can't view a significantt number of posts at once to quickly determine what you want to read
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Totally agree! Not a fan of the new Forum look. Can't really see what is interesting or what might help me. Usually I check daily the Forum…but the way it looks now, I might be checking things rarely, if ever.
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Totally agree!
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I was pleasantly surprised to see MJ pull ahead in the posting horserace. What if she takes a break??
@DMB as near as I can tell, @MJ. Smith never takes a break! 😜
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Anyone can design anything, but making it intuitive/simple-to-use/logical/etc. is the art of engineering.
Instead of Artificial Intelligence, I prefer to continue to rely on Divine Intelligence instructing my Natural Dullness (Ps 32:8, John 16:13a)
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That ring road says lease a helicopter.
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Winner of the day. ^^^^^^
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I'm happy to be patient and take the time to change old habits before I get too uptight. I think as we get used to the new digs and Logos tweaks some things (they are getting a ton of good suggestions), this will end up way better than what we had.
Eating a steady diet of government cheese, and living in a van down by the river.
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agreed, the cluttered feeling on the forums was one of the reasons why I stopped using the shuttered Logos Circle platform, and unfortunately this seems to echo those vibes.
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I agree, but it's just something new to learn. I'll get it eventually…I hope😆
Too soon old. Too late smart.
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I personally think the "look" of the forum is improved. The fact that I can now easily use the Forums on a mobile device is the best improvement.
I too, find the navigation of the old forums a little more "friendly" - but @Jason Stone (Logos) and others appear to be frequenting the Forums for the feedback and working on improvements. So hopefully, now that the hard work of transferring all our posts is complete - they will start reviewing the feedback and working on the navigation.
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Thanks a bunch for the great feedback! Keep sharing your thoughts, and I really appreciate everyone taking the time to do so. We’re working on making the new community site even better, especially for our members. We’ve made a lot of improvements already, and we’ll keep working hard to make it even easier for everyone to use. Grace and peace.
Sr. Community Manager at Logos.
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I used to check the forums regularly. Now far less so. Perhaps that will change, but I much preferred the previous simplicity.
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Because everything was all in a row
There was only one place you had to go
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It may not work for everyone but I've found settings in notifications provide me with a single list accessible from the bell beside my picture that is working as a single comprehensive list - actually improved over the old forums as it is screened for unknown languages and Proclaim.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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I like this new platform and applaud the effort to bring everything into one space. It took me a bit to get my head around it, but I can see the logic.
Optimising it will take a while, but once some core functions are sorted out and the layout of pages is sorted, I suspect most of us won't want to return. The old forum was very long in the tooth, but credit to it, it had served us for 15 years!
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Whilst accepting the look of the forums has changed, is there a link I can use to just view the equivalent of the old Logos general forum, which was my main forum, other than the ebooks one for commenting mainly on sales that publishers hadn't extended to Logos. 🙁
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Along the lines of what MJ posted - I have found that if I just want to concentrate on content that I "Follow" - the last two options under the Notification Settings are for Categories Followed and if you click the "Bell" icon and use the Manage Followed Content link, you can try to customize it as close to your liking. Then the notification bell will have a decent listing of what you want to follow (especially if you uncheck the "bell" for anything that you don't want in the list, while in Notification settings)
Logos 10 - OpenSuse Tumbleweed, Windows 11, Android 16 & Android 14
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