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LordCraft said:
Your forum layout is very confusing and user-"un"friendly!
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Could you elaborate please? What specifically about the forum layout is causing confusion and lack of user friendliness? When it comes to criticism, I need specifics or there really isn't anything I can do.

For example... what were you expecting of my forum... and what did you get instead... and what problems does that difference cause you?

Thank you 🙂
 
@xanaftp majority is thread layout. The navigation is cluttered, that linear thread view will drive someone to madness. I clicked on a thread about a passing-on rabbit and the layout was so confusing I simply closed out of the website. I could give more feedback on the matter but this is not the place. I just wanted to give my authentic first impression.

@Winterfell ❄ Don't mistake feedback as flame. I simply wanted to give my genuine first impression.
 
@LordCraft This is one tick I do have with the software I'm using and I'll probably find a way to force disable it. But I must ask, did you mean threaded mode, not linear mode? That button can be confusing. The button shows what view you would be going to if you clicked it, not the view you are in now. Assuming from where you were looking at comments on a picture, you were in threaded mode, where replies to comments have an indentation like this:

Main comment, most recent
---A reply
------A reply to that reply
---A separate reply
A different comment that is older than the first comment

Am I correct? If so, I agree with you. I personally never liked that layout either and I'll probably put it on my todo to hard code the system to always use linear mode:

A comment
A reply
Another reply
These replies are always from oldest to newest, and you must use quotes to indicate a reply because they're never indented.

Forum promotion uses linear mode for their forums as an example. Not to mention threaded mode on my website has a couple bugs that the linear mode does not have.

I turned off the ability to switch between threaded and linear and am forcing everything into linear mode now as an experiment. If you get a chance to check it out again, please let me know if this looks better than before. Currently comments still show from newest to oldest, but are no longer threaded / nested. Let me know if you also think they should be oldest to newest, and any other suggestions you may have. It's appreciated ^^.
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Next, the navigation dilemma. This has also been on my todo list for a while, but I have not receive consistent enough feedback yet to make a decision on how to restructure navigation. Ultimately, based on my research of the detrimental effects of the simple drop-downs, I want to destroy one of the two top level menus and have one menu that has just one item for each section of the website (Home, forums, content, journal, radio, and activism). What happens next is where I'm currently at a conflict with, and that is how to further structure. Given the amount of content this website has, having one menu with 7 items is not enough. However, having two top menus confuses people too. So I was thinking each section would have its own "left-panel" menu, like this:

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My original plan was to section things out based on content subject. You'd click a subject, and you'd get galleries, blogs, forums, downloads, etc. based on that content. This, from my SEO research, is better than sectioning things out based on content type. The problem is this doesn't play nice with the navigation of each individual addon controlling that content, which could potentially confuse users even more.

So the second option was just to group things based on content type (eg. You'd have an item on the panel for galleries, blogs, downloads, and so on). This unfortunately is less productive according to research, but it may have to do just for now since it plays better with the navigation of the addons managing the content.

What are your thoughts?
 
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Interesting software you are running on, it is one I have never heard of before.

I personally don't have much to add to the community at the moment, so I'm not signing up, but I do admire you persistence in keeping the site updated and constantly adding new features. Eventually you'll break through if you keep at it!
 
Golddisk said:
Interesting software you are running on, it is one I have never heard of before.

I personally don't have much to add to the community at the moment, so I'm not signing up, but I do admire you persistence in keeping the site updated and constantly adding new features. Eventually you'll break through if you keep at it!
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I'd like to think that but it has never ever happened for me before 😛 But thanks for the wishes anyhow.
 
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I, Lovinity , hereby declare solidarity mode on The Lovinity Community+ on the dates of January 29 and January 30th, 2017, with the possibility of extension. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order on Friday to suspend and detain immigrants and refugees coming to the United States. As a result, many immigrants have been put into detention or have been denied the ability to come to the United States. This executive order has resulted in mass chaos across the country and in other countries around the world. Many airports have been thrown off guard by the new orders. Immigrants from all over the world now cannot enter the country, which affects many people including companies and jobs. Protests have erupted everywhere across the United States, mainly at airports. Federal lawsuits are being filed for this ban. And overall, the United States continues to get more and more divided as the days pass.

This executive ban, according to some sources such as CNN, could affect up to 100+ million people. It is an unjust executive order only serving to create more disconnect in the United States, discriminate against cultures and religions by falsely labeling many people as terrorists, prevent those fleeing from terrorism in their own countries from seeking safe spaces, and separate the friends, families, and loved ones of diverse groups of people. Much research has gone into determining how many immigrants in the United states are actually terrorists. Overwhelmingly, the studies have concluded that acts of terrorism by legal immigrants and US citizens, when compared in a porportion to the total populus of these group samples, is higher than illegal immigrants.

This ban will not only not stop terrorism (nor will it even reduce it to any significant worthy amount), but it will create a bunch of new problems for the United States as well as other countries in this world.


The Lovinity Community+ encourages you to step up and voice out against this unjust executive order! Many people are taking to the streets and airports to protest this unjust order. Some have even gone as far as to file federal lawsuits. Whatever you do, your voice is a valuable tool in letting others know we will not tolerate this.

During this period of solidarity, the following will be happening on The Lovinity Community+:

  • All staff are asked to be on call on the website for at least 8 hours each day during solidarity in order to be there for anyone who needs someone to talk to.
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Thank you everyone for joining us in this period of solidarity. We must UNITE , not divide, to show that we can overcome anything.

Sincerely,
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SOLIDARITY MODE EXTENDED

Hello members.

I am declaring an extension on our solidarity mode on The Lovinity Community+ to include January 31, 2017, in addition to today. A shooting was reported in Quebec, Canada inside a Mosque. Several sources believe this was a terrorist attack against the Muslim community.

You can read more about this attack here: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ultiple-shooting-deaths-at-quebec-city-mosque


The Lovinity Community+ continues to encourage everyone to speak out against discrimination, and now we also ask that we pay our respects and condolences with the people of Quebec and the Muslim community.

The following events are happening today as a result of Solidarity Mode:
  • All staff are asked to spend at least 8 hours online each day to be there for members who need someone to talk to or to grieve. Members, please feel free to approach any staff member should you need to talk. If none are online, please message me @Lovinity and I will get to you as soon as I am online.
  • We expect Democracy Now! to air an important episode today at 1pm EST, simulcast over The Lovinity Community Radio. Democracy Now! is an independent news program hosted by Amy Goodman. Tune in for the latest regarding Trump's immigration bans and the continued violence.
  • We are amping up our safe space. Any forms of intentional discrimination in our community during this time will result in an immediate permanent ban in order to protect the safety of our members.
  • We will continue to post updates regarding this situation on our website in the form of activity feeds and in forum topics. We encourage you to check them out and participate in any discussions held.
Thank you everyone for your condolences for Quebec, as well as your continued support for people of all cultures, and your opposition of unjust actions against people based on race or culture.

Sincerely,
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