Redheaded step child

[jpcalhoun]

WOW fellow Pro owners...I guess we have been DOWN GRADED to the "who cares" category of Android phone users. Droid Pro is now listed, as you have undoubtedly discovered, to the "Other Moto Phone" sections. I guess if you have a real keyboard the technocrats at AndroidCentral don't consider you worthy of the same consideration as the other Android phone users. I mean come on, the Droid Bionic and X2, and how many people have those phones, have taken our place. No sense in visiting this forum anymore.

 

[Cory Streater]

Moving it to the more Android phones sub-forum should NOT be interpreted as a downgrade whatsoever.

Forums with a lower amount of activity were moved to the sub-forums due to complaints of a front page index that is so large that members find it frustrating to scroll through a list of phones just to find what they are looking for. There are so many Android phones now and more are to come. If you look at some of the other forum sites you will see that many do not even list popular forums in their index with a picture. They just list them all as subforums. I find this even less friendly than the way we have set it up.

You can blame me for this since I am the person who made the decision to do this. My goals were to:

1) Not overwhelm first time users to the site with a huge front page index. Ideally - I'd like to cut the manufacture sections down to the top 5-7 most active forums.
2) Make navigation for our existing members a more pleasant experience. One of the main complaints I've been hearing from our existing members is that it takes too long to scroll through the list to get to the forum of their choice. The Xoom is an excellent example of that.

My one concern when I decided to do this was a reaction like yours. What you can do is click on the section header to see a full display of all subforums including the Droid Pro.

If the Droid Pro becomes very active it will definitely be moved back. In the meantime, keep in mind that it is still listed, it just isn't listed with a big icon and font in the index. My mistake was not making this announcement to you guys after doing it.

My current project is to add an additional feature that will make navigation even easier for you. So standby for that.

EVERY phone is important to me. This whole site is important to me and I want every single forum to be successful. I work night and day doing so and part of that is making navigation a more user friendly experience. The feedback I'm hearing is that we haven't quite met that goal yet and with so many phones coming on a weekly basis, it is a challenging task to take on.