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This is the concept homepage we have right now.
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Some of you like having the subforums lists and some of you have found yourselves missing the giant feed.

I've been trying to think over a good middle-ground solution, and I wanted to share that with all of you before proceeding.

I understand many of you want some familiarity, and that feed is something that even I'm used to, even though I'm not very keen on it.

Now, I mentioned before that we don't want to just have a single giant list of threads on the homepage as this site is not meant to be a clone of the other forum. Additionally, that single feed format often led to a lot of frustration whenever someone decided to bump all of their sales threads at once. This concept page is meant to take that issue into account.

I see this as a chance to improve on things and I feel like the solution. The concept page makes the following changes:
  • Add two feeds at the top of the homepage: one for the discussion forums and the other for our Trading Post. These feeds could display 20 threads each just to start so we can see how it looks.
  • Your profile box is at the top of the sidebar, as usual.
  • A full list of subforums on the sidebar. Because we make use of prefixes here, we were able to cut down on the number of subforums, making it possible to feature the full list.
We'd need to work out how it's displayed on mobile, but that should be fairly simple to do as the sidebar doesn't appear on mobile and we could just have the latest discussion forum posts appear first, Trading Post feed appear second, and then the subforum lists.

Right now, we want feedback on how it is in the image above before we invest any more time into making it responsive or cleaning it up further.

If it's all right with everyone as well, I voted in the poll as well as I would actually like this as the homepage. However, please don't let that sway your vote and be honest if you don't like it.
 
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13 yes votes and 3 no votes.
 
Since the votes are currently in favour of making this our new homepage, I have spent some time getting it more ready and fixing any issues there could be.

If anyone wants to the view the page to see what it looks like and test it out, you can find it here: https://officeoutlaw.com/pages/home/

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You may notice that the main changes made to this is the Latest from the Trading Post section being a little smaller and simpler. This is because the equal split between the two was less visually appealing and we feel that there should be more of an emphasis on the posts from the forum. I'm hoping that this improves the appearance of the page but still is clear enough for members wanting to see Trading Post updates.

Please let me know if there are any bugs or issues that have been missed.
 
Impulse said:
Since the votes are currently in favour of making this our new homepage, I have spent some time getting it more ready and fixing any issues there could be.

If anyone wants to the view the page to see what it looks like and test it out, you can find it here: https://officeoutlaw.com/pages/home/

e2ace547b16eb1e93d8519f0899df95e.png


You may notice that the main changes made to this is the Latest from the Trading Post section being a little smaller and simpler. This is because the equal split between the two was less visually appealing and we feel that there should be more of an emphasis on the posts from the forum. I'm hoping that this improves the appearance of the page but still is clear enough for members wanting to see Trading Post updates.

Please let me know if there are any bugs or issues that have been missed.
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Didn't get a chance to vote cause I forgot but looks good to me. THX!
 
Impulse said:
Since the votes are currently in favour of making this our new homepage, I have spent some time getting it more ready and fixing any issues there could be.

If anyone wants to the view the page to see what it looks like and test it out, you can find it here: https://officeoutlaw.com/pages/home/

e2ace547b16eb1e93d8519f0899df95e.png


You may notice that the main changes made to this is the Latest from the Trading Post section being a little smaller and simpler. This is because the equal split between the two was less visually appealing and we feel that there should be more of an emphasis on the posts from the forum. I'm hoping that this improves the appearance of the page but still is clear enough for members wanting to see Trading Post updates.

Please let me know if there are any bugs or issues that have been missed.
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I think it's ready to go, but I was hoping for people to comment on the adjustment that was made.

Either way, it won the popular vote, so we'll set this to go live this week. I'll post an announcement thread about it later.
 
MisterF said:
There's nothing wrong with tinkering to enhance the layout and structure.
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Yeah, that's the thing. Once we set it as the homepage, we can always make adjustments to it later. Anyone who has suggestions can post them in the forum suggestions section as well and we can go based off the upvotes to make the changes.
 
Impulse said:
Since the votes are currently in favour of making this our new homepage, I have spent some time getting it more ready and fixing any issues there could be.

If anyone wants to the view the page to see what it looks like and test it out, you can find it here: https://officeoutlaw.com/pages/home/

e2ace547b16eb1e93d8519f0899df95e.png


You may notice that the main changes made to this is the Latest from the Trading Post section being a little smaller and simpler. This is because the equal split between the two was less visually appealing and we feel that there should be more of an emphasis on the posts from the forum. I'm hoping that this improves the appearance of the page but still is clear enough for members wanting to see Trading Post updates.

Please let me know if there are any bugs or issues that have been missed.
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The only suggestion I’d make here (for screens < 768px) would be to move the “X minutes ago” text to the end of the line/parent:

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In my example, I set .structItem-cell--meta and .structItem-cell--latest to width: 50% and removed the max-width. (Although, this can also be handled using Flexbox with justify-content: space-between.)

Thanks.
 
Vix said:
In my example, I set .structItem-cell--meta and .structItem-cell--latest to width: 50% and removed the max-width. (Although, this can also be handled using Flexbox with justify-content: space-between.)
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@Impulse did this today.

We're going to hold off a bit on uploading the homepage as we need to fix a few issues with it. Also, we were doing it right now and realised that maybe fiddling around with stuff during peak hours wasn't a good idea.
 
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Zwielicht said:
@Impulse did this today.

We're going to hold off a bit on uploading the homepage as we need to fix a few issues with it. Also, we were doing it right now and realised that maybe fiddling around with stuff during peak hours wasn't a good idea.
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Could use a designers' CSS the last time I seen it too dude, you do you boo - it's working out
 
We had to postpone this for now in order to prioritise some other changes to the forum. I just wanted to give everyone an update on this.
 
All right, @Impulse has officially added this in. Thank you to everyone who participated in this. :)
 
Rem said:
gonna say
i regret saying yes
looks ugly as fuck
sorry @INCC
i am part fault of this abomination
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I preferred the forum list as the homepage. :(
 
Zwielicht said:
I preferred the forum list as the homepage. :(
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I think a lot of votes are because we're familiar with another place. I voted for change, but I kind of got used to the forum list, only because it had recent posts on the sidebar. I wouldn't like a forum list homepage without recent posts somewhere easy to see. Overall, I think I slightly prefer the new style. Maybe that's partly because I intend to have a Trading Post thread in the future, but it's just nice to easily see new stuff.

I would prefer the forum list in the sidebar to be expanded by default, though, but maybe that's just me.

It's also nice not having to scroll down on mobile to see new posts.
 
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Yeah I don't like the new home. I dunno If I voted, I think I may have been a fucking sheep and said yes.

What a tool. I hope I said no though, I really do. In the graphic it looked good, in action not so much.

I think if we keeping it, would be nice to maybe have a box above both columns that has watched forums or something? Not sure if thats possible or not, that way I can see anything I miss in topics I care about and the rest I'll worry about in latest or If I get tagged.

Just my 2p
 
t2van said:
Yeah I don't like the new home. I dunno If I voted, I think I may have been a fucking sheep and said yes.

What a tool. I hope I said no though, I really do. In the graphic it looked good, in action not so much.

I think if we keeping it, would be nice to maybe have a box above both columns that has watched forums or something? Not sure if thats possible or not, that way I can see anything I miss in topics I care about and the rest I'll worry about in latest or If I get tagged.

Just my 2p
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It should be possible.

If you'd like, now that we have a custom homepage, you can start a thread on homepage improvements. The main thing everyone wanted was a feed, which they have now. However, that doesn't mean we can't improve the whole page even more.

Just as long as we don't do something crazy, like making the homepage version of this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1knzh4b/the_mercedes_vision_avtr_looks_insane
 
Zwielicht said:
It should be possible.

If you'd like, now that we have a custom homepage, you can start a thread on homepage improvements. The main thing everyone wanted was a feed, which they have now. However, that doesn't mean we can't improve the whole page even more.

Just as long as we don't do something crazy, like making the homepage version of this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1knzh4b/the_mercedes_vision_avtr_looks_insane
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Everyone was wrong.

That car is awful also.
 
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