• Members 21 posts
    March 27, 2023, 3:21 p.m.

    It will make the site look much more familiar to former dpreview forums users.

  • Members 208 posts
    March 27, 2023, 3:41 p.m.

    It's easy enough to save a bookmark to any page as your route for getting in.
    On the old DPR I rarely looked at either categories or threads listings.

  • Members 21 posts
    March 27, 2023, 4:29 p.m.

    Sure, but you have to notice it in the first place - people who see a homepage with all of the threads ungrouped might not take the time to explore and just bounce.

  • March 27, 2023, 4:35 p.m.

    I agree. There might be an easy way to do it, and if I can I will. It might require taking the system down for a few minutes.

  • Members 12 posts
    March 27, 2023, 5:24 p.m.

    Hi there, just joined... I looked in yesterday, and ran away. The initial look was a bit 'WTF?', what with the mix of all the posts from different categories.

    But I came back just now. With DPReview, I stuck to about four main regular fora, and dipped into a few others. It seems the majority of users just took part in one or two fora. I second Shmoopix's proposal.

  • Members 643 posts
    March 27, 2023, 5:58 p.m.

    I agree.

  • Members 44 posts
    March 27, 2023, 6:06 p.m.

    I agree, and suggested this in another post too. Admin and team are very active here, so I'm sure this will be implemented soon.

    Thank you all for the great work.

  • Removed user
    March 27, 2023, 6:11 p.m.

    My DPR tab on FireFox home page is connected to the only Forum of chronic interest to me - the Sigma Camera forum.

    Hmmm ... nested quotes ... yummy, Bob!

    Ted.

  • March 27, 2023, 6:15 p.m.

    A quick fix is just to make DPRevived.com/categories your URL - that goes straight there. I think it's pretty trivial for me to change - I just don't want to do anything right now that I don't understand and might disrupt things.

  • Members 284 posts
    March 27, 2023, 8:32 p.m.

    100% agree. l-cameraforum, fmiranda, and basically most forums show the categories first, not all posts.

  • Members 21 posts
    March 27, 2023, 8:41 p.m.

    It's a non-issue for the people who are already aware of the groups existing, it's only meaningful to casual newcomers.

  • Members 13 posts
    March 27, 2023, 8:41 p.m.

    That seems to have happened now.
    But, some categories are in exploded view, while others are not, and that seems very unorganised.
    PLS, NO exploded categories!

  • March 27, 2023, 8:44 p.m.

    Yes, that was Alan's idea and he half did it because flattening the later lists didn't seem to make much sense - but we've worked out a sensible scheme. He's going to do some more work on it tomorrow.

  • Members 260 posts
    March 27, 2023, 8:44 p.m.

    BobN2 - it is not about how-to ... it all about the first impression somebody gets while visiting ... it is either a mess a-la landing page of discuss.pixls.us/ or neat & structured forum view that most phpBB forums have ... this is a time to grab bodies - so this matters

  • March 27, 2023, 8:48 p.m.

    Yes, I know it matters - the question is what can actually be done right now - but if you look, you'll see that I've done it.

  • Members 13 posts
    March 27, 2023, 8:49 p.m.

    Thx