Hey forum fam! Just a heads up that Discourse 3.0 has launched (the software we use for the forum), so you’ll see a couple changes around the forum:
Sidebar navigation: now you can find categories and whatever else you want to access regularly from any page, with less jumping around. I’m just trying it out now but looks pretty slick!
Maybe I’missing something but I cannot find the “latest” threads choice that used to exist. I’d use this to see what threads I’m being altered to have updates. Hmmmm. That’s where it used to tell me which topics I care about and how many new posts there are. Where’s that now?
Don’t have latest, unread, or new on my phone. Have to click everything, and then filter. If I filter on unread, after reading it, I have to back to the top of the navigation tree and start over.
Used to be able to backswipe and go back to the unread list. More clicks now.
It’s fine on a desktop browser, phone poses some challenges
So looks like it’s gone on the phone version in portrait mode @JoshFossgreen (which is stoopid as there is still space for it which means poor formatting of the menu bar) because the chat icon took the place of the menu icon that had latest new etc. if I flip to landscape the “forum” menu appears under “forum”. I think it used to be a hamburger menu icon. Not a big deal but you know how little changes can effect things. Anything that makes something harder gets used less.
I rarely used the latest. Too much information. Being dyslexic, I like things in smaller chunks. Takes me a bit to navigate a busy screen. But it is what it is.
Also, refreshing the main page in my browser made some of the newer functionality (“chat”) visible for me - that’s probably why I couldn’t find it earlier