The other forum I spend most of my online life on, built on the Ezboard platform has the forum control at the top, where you navigate between sections, like a normal windows layout just as on here, BUT also has a drop down menu box bottom right of the page so when you have scrolled to the bottom of a page when scanning a section, or imprtantly when reading a thread you can immediately navigate to another section from there without having to scroll back up to the top of the page as we do on here, it's a really good ergonomic design. Yes I know you can use back button, but that isn't always where you want to go.
I use a pc and mouse, but if I was on a phone constantly having to scroll up to get to change sections or constantly going back it would really discourage me from browsing the forum - its part of the reason I don't use a phone for internet (screen size and interface method being main ones) except in an emergency away from my desk situation, navigating websites isn't as easy, just blindly scrolling trying to find the correct thing to progress is a frustrating waste of time. I know most people have moved to doing everything on a phone, or on a tablet like device, but I am happy doing it 90s style.
On the other forum I use I log straight into main menu, where I can see a brief overall view of what's new, go to the first section that catches my eye, and after that I go through all the sections I check in, read, post, and move on without ever coming back to the home page main menu.
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The other forum I spend most of my online life on, built on the Ezboard platform has the forum control at the top, where you navigate between sections, like a normal windows layout just as on here, BUT also has a drop down menu box bottom right of the page so when you have scrolled to the bottom of a page when scanning a section, or imprtantly when reading a thread you can immediately navigate to another section from there without having to scroll back up to the top of the page as we do on here, it's a really good ergonomic design. Yes I know you can use back button, but that isn't always where you want to go.
I use a pc and mouse, but if I was on a phone constantly having to scroll up to get to change sections or constantly going back it would really discourage me from browsing the forum - its part of the reason I don't use a phone for internet (screen size and interface method being main ones) except in an emergency away from my desk situation, navigating websites isn't as easy, just blindly scrolling trying to find the correct thing to progress is a frustrating waste of time. I know most people have moved to doing everything on a phone, or on a tablet like device, but I am happy doing it 90s style.
On the other forum I use I log straight into main menu, where I can see a brief overall view of what's new, go to the first section that catches my eye, and after that I go through all the sections I check in, read, post, and move on without ever coming back to the home page main menu.
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