Forums page changed

[Zombie]

iPad 6 iOS 14.6

I always open at Forums because it gives (gave?) at-a-glance overview of the whole site

- window for each of the forums showing most recent poster, name and date (in bold if new) e.g. Help, The Lounge, Games, Writers Forum etc

- single click navigation to open The Lounge, or Games or whatever

All concisely laid out onscreen without having to do a lot of scrolling of other stuff you might not be looking for

This is how it’s been for a long time. Simple and neat.

Is there a “classic” display option to get back to this or similar?

thanks

 

Edited September 28, 2021 by Zombie

[Myr]

I am struggling to figure out what you mean. We have not changed anything recently. 

Mobile devices have a more consolidated view, but your browser can be set to desktop mode. 

You might be talking about Fluid view versus traditional. That would be the two icons just above the forum list on the right side. 

 

[Zombie]

until yesterday / the weekend (?) there used to be: 

“Forums“ heading in large font (directly under “Featured Blog Posts”)

and then

“GAY AUTHORS COMMUNITY” heading in capitals

and then a box for: 

“The Lounge” forum

with the most recent thread activity shown (name, poster, date/time)

and then a box for: 

“Forum Games and Humor” forum

with the most recent thread activity shown (name, poster, date/time)

and then a box for: 

“Help” forum

with the most recent thread activity shown (name, poster, date/time)

and then

“AUTHORS AND STORIES” heading in capitals

and then a box for forums in this section etc

 

This has now all been replaced with a new box, top right, which contains the “Gay Authors Community” heading (now in lower case) with:

tick box   The Lounge

tick box   Forum Games and Humor

tick box   Help

and the “Authors and Stories” heading (again now in lower case) with:

tick box   Promoted Author Discussion 

tick box   Stories Discussion Forum

These tick boxes seem to make little difference if none, some or all are ticked and certainly don’t restore the Forums to the display format that had existed until the weekend

Also, the photos section above “Who’s online” has gone.

Sorry this is such a long and tedious post but it’s the only way to explain how the Forums page display has changed on my iPad

 

 

[Myr]

Sounds like you turned on fluid view. Tap the left button of the pair above top right of forum list. 

[Zombie]

Good grief, it’s like operating a nuclear submarine 

…dead easy when you know how!    

[Cia]

I can't count the number of times the touch screen flubbed me like that when I first started using them way back when (OMG that makes me sound old, lol).