They are talking about adding a "gear" icon that will take you to the User CP. No ETA on it though.

 

That would be better than the way we do it now. Took me a bit to try and figure it out a day or so ago.

 

The whole change makes the site a little more cumbersome to use. Logging in and out was much easier before as well as getting the PMs.

 

"Mark All Posts Read" is missing from the tool. Not just posts in the forum but all on the site.

 

It is now located by clicking your user ID in the upper right corner. It is in that menu below the Subscribed Threads option.

 

I find it interesting that the other forums I am on have not made this change. Plus I've seen forums where the "content" is pushed down so far due to all the ads that you have to scroll a full page. They are still thriving BTW.

 

I was on a forum once where they were gonna roll out changes and they made it accessible so folks could go and preview and offer suggestions before it went live, that was nice.

 

I'm not sure what other forums you're referring to. Sites in our network or not? Some of our sites have not made the change but are planned. If you're referring to other sites outside of our network, then keep in mind the global nav bar (below the title) is custom to us and was partly deployed years ago to work across the site. The stock vB nav bar, by default, would only work within the forums. Also, navigation, by default, is more commonly found at the top of a page rather than down the page.

Regarding feedback, the team has used feedback as well as private surveys in the past. However, at the end of the day, there is no way to have X amount of people fully in agreement. So some direction and decisions have to be made by the team based on feedback and other data that score the site.

 

Do not know if the other sites I am on are in your group but, I certainly hope not.