Hey Everybody!!! Forum Software Upgrade in the Works

Yes, you will likely see this change this week. Here is what is planned. I'm not asking for feedback yet, as this is already assigned, but we can make further changes on a second round if needed.

Menu Drop Down Items


Home Link: I don’t see a reason for the Home link. Let’s just remove it. The logo is the home link.

2nd Menu Row (#1 in picture): I don’t see a reason to have this row. We will have these items in drop down menu

Big Arrows (#2 in picture): These are big and ugly and sometimes the design breaks on some browser sizes. Let’s replace with a simple hyphen “-”

Drop down action: Where you see the position of the #3 in the picture when we mouse over there is an arrow and then we get the drop down. I would rather remove the arrow and just have a drop down if you mouseover any place on the tab.

Forum List Drop Down: Change tab “Forums” to “Forum List”: When mousing over Forum List tab we want to show the forum list from here. Important note: There are user permissions associated with this list so make sure you account for this.

Quick Links: Remove the Members tab and Replace with Quick Links tab, and display the General Links from here again, but with some changes:

• Remove Home and Forum links
• The first 3 items should be Recent Activity, What’s New, and Watched Threads
• Then add Current Visitors after Registered Members

Remove the Help Tab as we have this in the Quick Links

Competitions Drop Down: A little logic here, but we will drop down 12 months starting with current month using this format
Month Year
January 2012
February 2012
etc.

Music Drop down just like this
Bolero
Cha Cha
Cumbia
East Coast Swing
Foxtrot
Hustle
Jive
Merengue
Paso Doble
Quickstep
Rumba
Salsa/Mambo
Samba
Tango
Tango Argentino
Viennese Waltz
Waltz
West Coast Swing

Yes, I was disappointed to see the "All Recent Messages" not available in the new layout. It has what everyone is asking for!!

Did you try clicking the blue arrow in the upper right corner? it brings up a menu that includes recent activity.

I've searched high and low through the xenforo forums for a solution and they don't seem to have one. So we're having to come up with one on our own. Which is why there has been a delay.

It is still a two step process. And I don't like the Recent Activity screen. I think it is messy and extremely difficult to sort through. It doesn't matter to me that someone wrote in 15 threads and liked 3 posts. Given a choice I would never ever use that screen.

All people are asking for is to see the list of all of the currently active threads, and not have them disappear once they read them.

I understand that we will have to make do with 1: what you already have asked the programmers to do. and 2: what xenforo is capable of. But it is a shame that one button that would make pretty much everyone happy can't be put in a more accessible place.

I realize that this is what everyone wants. Again its on the list. I was offering the recent activity (which I really like) as a temporary alternative.

Maybe this-
http://www.dance-forums.com/find-new/337119/threads

Why not? I was able to book mark the link I posted above in FireFox.

Ah I see, Well until we get the "Today's Posts" working, you could always bookmark the Whats New page and hit F5 to display the most current data.

There's got to be a way to refresh the page. Every browser has a way