Forums buried on site redesign

[Joel]

Title pretty much says it all. I used to be able to click to the forums pretty quick from the little link at the very top. With the redesign I had to hunt for quite a while, then finally found it at the very bottom, which still took me to this page where I had to click through...

 

[azev]

Title pretty much says it all. I used to be able to click to the forums pretty quick from the little link at the very top. With the redesign I had to hunt for quite a while, then finally found it at the very bottom, which still took me to this page where I had to click through...

Ditto.

 

[nickscott18]

Title pretty much says it all. I used to be able to click to the forums pretty quick from the little link at the very top. With the redesign I had to hunt for quite a while, then finally found it at the very bottom, which still took me to this page where I had to click through...

Just came here to post exactly the same thing . . .

 

[burr]

ditto.

 

[Patrick]

All, great feedback.

Elasticsearch took a dive but should be up now.

On the forums link, there are now links in the menus.

Thanks everyone.

 

[mackle]

Yeah the forum link doesn't appear on the main site. It does on the forum page, positioned where the 'new posts today' is located on the main site page.

 

[Jeggs101]

Windows IE, Windows Chrome have links.

Site looks good. Tried on my Nexus 7 and Samsung Galaxy 6 and looks fine awesome.

Did you guys shift reload?

And @Zankza on my site I simply do not support requests from people who use ad blockers. I don't know if STH does the same but if you don't support the sites I run I don't support you. If you have other stuff running in browsers screwing with rendering (shown in your screenshot) then how can anyone vouch that it is working as intended???

 

[OBasel]

I see the forum links on both the top and dropdown menus. TBH the old site sucked on my phone and this one works much better. It renders fine for me.

+1 on the adblock thing.

 

[mackle]

ctrl refresh worked.

I didn't think about having to do that as it had been the first time I'd navigated to the main page from this computer.

 

[Patriot]

I must admit I don't visit the main site every day... but I do a few times a week.
My bookmark takes me to new forum comments.
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?find-new/posts

 

[OBasel]

ctrl refresh worked.

I didn't think about having to do that as it had been the first time I'd navigated to the main page from this computer.

Browser cache FTW!

 

[TuxDude]

I gotta say I'm not a fan of the new design either. Biggest complaints for me so far are that the front-page doesn't have enough content on it anymore - between the giant images for each article and the advertising everywhere else, I now only get a single headline on the front page and have to scroll to see more (on a 1920x1200 maximized browser window). And once you browse to an article, again I have to scroll down to get to any content other than the headline, which is written over a background image making it harder to read than it should be. Then there's a blue strip down the left side that really makes it look like I've accidentally selected a large part of the page, except that clicking all over doesn't clear the selection. And yes - I've accidentally clicked on 2 ad's today already while trying to clear a selection that I never made.

 

[nickscott18]

All, great feedback.

Elasticsearch took a dive but should be up now.

On the forums link, there are now links in the menus.

Thanks everyone.

Much easier to find the forums now - and as for the new layout, for how I view the site, it's a nice improvement (mostly viewed from my mobile).

 

[MiniKnight]

I think many are missing the point. They made the change and that's past tense now.

 

[mstone]

Having to shift reload is a sign of a web site bug.

As for ad blockers...I'll stop blocking ad networks when ad networks stop handing out malware. They don't take responsibility for the content they push, so I can't/won't trust them.