What do members think of the new web site & forum structure?

To me too.

I know nothing of how Misago code works, so you could well be correct in saying that it demands this structure and titling, but logical?

To me, something called the-photo.org is by definition and common consent the homepage of a website.

I shall say no more. 😀

David
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I was also asking myself the same questions

How does a newcomer get to the-photo.org page if everything happens on dprevived.com?
It's a really strange concept 🥸

Sorry, I can’t find anything and have been screwing things up regularly. Not a fan so far.

The old page was just perfect.
I have no idea why you have decided to mess with it.

if it ain't broke, don't fix it

You go here:

At which point newcomers will think click on the bolded "The Photo Forum" but ... nooo ..., it does something else.

I challenge any newcomer to realize that the plain text 'Web Site' at right and totally overwhelmed by the bold blue 'Choose Style' is where they should click.

Maybe the treads label can be renamed Latest or latest threads, to make it clearer.

@AlanSh

I am not aware of the individual traffic figures for each forum/subforum, as you are.

I do remember that there was a lot of agonising (and much appreciated) hard work to get to the final layout, and the USP of that page is that many 50+ forums are instant on the eye with a quick scan of the page.

Having said that, I nearly always click on the Threads heading after accessing the forum.
At the end of the day, Alan, I will trust your decision on what is best for the forum and its future.

When I type 'dprevived dot com' ** into the FireFox address bar, I am taken to the forum page, not 'the-photo'

** Yes, I know that that is not the address of the "main page" now but it used to be and there are many, many live links left over that imply that it is THE address, not 'the-photo dot org'.

I predict that if clicking 'dprevived dot com' does not bring up 'the-phot' instantly by re-directing, membership and posters per day will not increase as much as is hoped.

Right now there may not be that much of interest to us old members, other than maybe the photos. BUT: the web page adds real estate that we can also use in the future for information that COULD be of interest to old or new members. Think of the landing page at DPR. There's a lot of content and links on that page that may be of interest to ongoing members. We can all work together to figure out what all we want to be available and how to frame or link it there.

Thank you, Alan, for the clarification re: 'the web site'.

I thought that that 'dprevived.com' was the post-partum web site and that 'the-photo' was a later addition. Pardon my confusion as to their history.

seriously if i hadnt read the thread title i wouldnt of known there were any changes.

Understood. It is what most of us who have been around this place for sometime do.
Now try to put aside your prior knowledge. Imagine someone has recommended The Photo to you and given you dprevived.com/ to have a look at. Try understanding it. How long do you think you would spend on the page before you go to to your previous photo site of choice? It is generally felt that a page where someone arrives for the first time has no more than two clicks to convince them this is a place they want to come to again.
dprevived.com/ isn't easy to grasp at first meeting but it is far easy to decipher for a newcomer than the previous dprevived.com/ The main purpose of the new dprevived.com/ is to give a structure that enables www.the-photo.org/ to work.

I suggesy dprevived.com/ is considerably easier for a newcomer to grasp than the previous Forum Index page. Even so, dprevived.com/ isn't designed for new arrivals. www.the-photo.org/ is what new arrivals will see first. If you have a look at it, it explains what we are about and gives direct links to easily understood things that might engage a newcomer.