Move AF Community To The Top Of The Forum

[AugieTN]

Just a thought. A lot of forums have something similar to AF Community at the top of the forum. People will first see announcements, Introductions and Suggestions & Feedback. Which I think is a good thing.

I'm the last person to write in Introductions in December, If you take a look, there are large time gaps between introductions.

 

[Unforgiven]

A long time ago this was the first section. Back when I joined in 2010 looking for info on my OG Droid. I'm with you that it should be back at the top.

 

[Unforgiven]

@AugieTN, good call.

 

[Rob]

Appreciate this point.

I've put the "AF Community" at the top of the "Featured Forums" section. I did it this way to preserve vertical space, which is why it got moved down to the bottom back in the day. The "Community" part was awesome as a small site, but when AF became one of the largest sites on the web, expecting "Introductions" and wanting "Suggestions" fell down the priority list. We wanted to focus on the content. Push all those Upcoming and Rumored Phone Forums to the top of the site.

This seems like a good compromise between the two. If everyone prefers it get its own big dedicated section, we can revisite, but let's try this out for now!

 

[Unforgiven]

Appreciate this point.

I've put the "AF Community" at the top of the "Featured Forums" section. I did it this way to preserve vertical space, which is why it got moved down to the bottom back in the day. The "Community" part was awesome as a small site, but when AF became one of the largest sites on the web, expecting "Introductions" and wanting "Suggestions" fell down the priority list. We wanted to focus on the content. Push all those Upcoming and Rumored Phone Forums to the top of the site.

This seems like a good compromise between the two. If everyone prefers it get its own big dedicated section, we can revisite, but let's try this out for now!

I think it looks nice up there, and unlike the old vBulleting layout where you needed to scroll for miles, it isn't too bad.

 

[Rob]

We could also require new members introduce themselves, but at that point, I think we're creating too large a hurdle for participation.

However, I just noticed the "Welcome E-Mail" for new members was WAYYYY outdated so I turned it off and the "Welcome Private Message" was turned off. We should definitely utilize these, too.... not only to urge people to Introduce themselves but also to give them the run down of the site and how to get the most of it.

I think we're still very much trying to reconfigure the site so I don't want to craft something just yet, but I'd love to hear opinions!