Re: What's new? = Top Level Forums (ambiguous)

Posted by Mike Wilson on Dec 29, 2008; 1:57pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/missing-nabble1-functions-in-nabble2-tp2042515p2088881.html

Graham Perrin wrote

<http://n2.nabble.com/> | What's new? | More »
presents Top Level Forums <http://n2.nabble.com/freeforums.html> 
with the top-level 'Software' and 'CSS' forums on page 4.

The tail end of that paragraph sounds similar to browsing Top Level Forums, so maybe it's the front page heading 'What's new?' could be worded in a way that's less ambiguous.

I can't recall when (if ever) I accepted a Nabble front page invitation to see what's new. With so much on the Internet, 'What's New?' is (to me) not an appealing prospect! YMMV…

Yes, I tried that listing but instantly gave up. When a forum like "sendawar.c2" with 0 topics is listed on the first page there is not much hope to find anything useful on the following pages. To me, the problem is threefold:
* activity doesn't bring the often used stuff to the top
* I don't get a sense of category structure ("this match is a forum, but this other match is a category that in turn can be clicked to browse other forums")
* the listing shows too few matches per page on too much space