Poor Site Navigation for Local Sub-Forums

[Daniel Flesher]

BP has never had particularly good forum navigation, but whatever redesign just happened has made it worse. 

Example: I used to go to "Community" > Then "Local Real Estate Forums". From there I would hit "Ctrl+F" to bring up the search bar and type "Philadelphia" to quickly navigate to the sub-forum I wanted. It was a hassle. It's not helped by the fact that the top menus pop-up when you hover over them, but if you accidentally navigate off of them they disappear. It's inconvenient design at best.

But now it's worse: I go to "Community" > "Forum Categories." This loads a new page. I can't "Ctrl+F" yet. First I have to navigate to "Local Real Estate" and click "Show 51 Sub-forums". Then I hit "Ctrl+F" and search for . . . "Pennsylvania" so I can click, "Show 3 sub-forums." Finally, I can click on "Philadelphia." 

BP is a community, but it's also a tool. Right now it's pretty unwieldy in that regard. I would love it if the forum navigation were something more familiar like a classic vBulletin layout.

I could say more but I think I'll stop at this for now. I love BP and want to help it be better. If the tools are easier to use that means more people will use them. That's good for activity which is good for the community.