New Forum Changes & Upgrades

[Joshua Dorkin]

As you can see if you've been to our forum before, we just launched a drastic change to the look and feel. After years of having the same design, and a ton of feedback from our membership, we've reorganized how things are found on the forum.

Here's a list of the changes:

1 - We created new Sections called Categories that are color coded. Within each section are now sub-sections, and within those are individual forum categories.
2 - For each Section, we've added a navigation area on the left sidebar called Jump to Category, which will quickly take you to the section you seek.
3 - We've added a Popular Tags area in the left sidebar so members can quickly follow discussions under the tags they are interested in.
4 - We moved our Stats section to the left sidebar.
5 - We added a new search feature at the top of the forums.
6 - Added RSS buttons for the feeds of each forum category, so members can subscribe to those that interest them.
7 - On each individual forum category page, you can now see the description of that category so there is no confusion as to the purpose of that category.
8 - Moved the Related Topics to the bottom of the forum topics as requested by our members.

We've also sped up many pages and made many more fixes and changes. More to come, so stick around!