About forum readability

[Kimmo Toivanen]

Android Central forum front page is a very, very long list of sections, everything brought to front page. 37 screens. How do you use that?

Front page should be table of contents. Listing only major topics.

Did you know there is a Pi section? Ain't nobody have time to scroll that far? There are not many posts there, maybe because Pi is rare device, or maybe because forumers never knew it existed.

This forum also seems to be too device-centric, from every possible manufacturer, every possible model, all separated to their own compartments. I would guess, that over 60% of questions asked are not model - or even manufacturer - dependent. Same questions could be asked for S6 and S8 and Alcatel and... While android itself is fragmented, this forum seems to be a lot more. Information is not broadly available when it could be. There is always "General News & Discussion" but...

This post should really be in Site feedback. Good luck finding it

 

[Tim1954]

I'll put this link up in the relevant place for the powers to respond mate.

 

[Javier P]

Mod note. Thread moved to the Site Feedback & Help forum.

 

[pkcable]

Android Central is part of Mobile Nations, a family of web sites. We have a Director of Design, @David Lundblad, and a primary programmer @GioLogist, as well as a team of people that are always looking at the design of the website. It's definitely a work in progress. A major update JUST took place, BUT they are always open to feedback! Here's a special thread for the redesign....

http://forums.androidcentral.com/si...ew-forum-design-official-feedback-thread.html

 

[David Lundblad]

The Forum 'home' is a section in dire need of an update. I have new designs done but we are struggling to make it a high enough priority to tackle in the short term with the other projects we have going on

 

[Kimmo Toivanen]

Thanks to all!

I posted to official thread also with an image of front page... I was a bit afraid that it would either kill the forum or show in 1:1 scale (which would had been great fun)

It's good to hear that improvements are coming, I'm looking forward to see them in action. As a (non-web) developer I fully understand how it goes