[kmalsom]

Maybe you could make them behave like this:

[Nexttime]

Originally Posted by TenPercenter

You're right, that's one of the first things I noticed.

Problem is that when I change the name of a forum, the LINK to that forum changes. That means any time anyone on the internet has linked to a post or thread in that forum, the link will now be dead.

Ten, one should be able to add aliases and redirects so that the old paths should still resolve. Basically the old path would be redirected to the new shorter path.

[wijwij]

Forum Jump on that other web site is NOT appearing at all on my browser, nor is your test of a similar feature in the dev area.

No "Forum Jump" found anywhere.

Please have pity on those of us using older browsers by choice!

All we need is a simple TEXT PAGE with the forums and the classifieds listed, with links to them. Like the Site Map page. I find it hard to believe that you can't go in and adjust the Site Map page to reflect the new structure.

What I don't like about the current chiptalk is the over-reliance on lots of code, backgrounds, etc. Good old plain text is much faster to load.

I frequently find myself appending"-print.html" to the ends of posts just so I can see them load faster and get to the core, which is the text and related chip pr0n!

[jojobinks]

Originally Posted by whataboutj

Whatever you decide to do with the poker strategy forum please make it intuitive to find. That is one of the areas I believe is getting a lot more "Action" and some of the threads and discusions have been excellent. I would hate to see that area get buried somewhere and lose participants
Thanks
J

agreed. if anything i'd reverse it and put home games under poker strategy.

[TenPercenter]

Originally Posted by jojobinks

agreed. if anything i'd reverse it and put home games under poker strategy.

The problem is that Strategy is a Category with a single forum. Home Game Advice has nine forums under it.

[wijwij]

I looked at the dev site with Safari and with Firefox and I can now see the flyout effect.

Just to let you know about how poorly chiptalk works on MSIE:

With MSIE, NONE of the blue text items at the top of the chiptalk main page work

All of those dropdowns fail to function.

Things like Poker Chips!, Custom Chips, Group Buys, Market Place, Site Tools, etc.

I can read the text but can't click on it to see any dropdowns at all.

So the major naviagation of chiptalk has been unavailable to me for a long time.

That's why I have been using Site Map page and the New Posts page so often.

I think I will just have to try using Safari or Firefox or other more modern browsers more if I want to see the more recent code effects.

Anyway, aside from the issue of cross-platform compatibility, I would like to say one thing:

The fly-out menu that lists ALL the forums is not really necessary.

Because you have placed it at the top right next to the drop-down menus themselves.

It is far easier for us to just scan across those two rows of topics and find what we
want, then use that drop-down, than it is to use the huge flyout. It seems redundant.

Often redundancy is a good thing, but here it is just redundancy at the same level
where the major topics exist. I don't know if I'm being clear here, but I think the
"flyout" menu is not necessary.

I also see that in the DEV area you have put "vBClassifieds" as one of the options.

I hope that that will be part of your redesign.

It is too bad that the "new Posts" feature will not pick up on new classifieds, so it will now require viewing classifieds from time to time on purpose to see what is available.

[jojobinks]

Originally Posted by TenPercenter

The problem is that Strategy is a Category with a single forum. Home Game Advice has nine forums under it.

although true, that's circumstantial. it could just as well absorb online poker, bad beats, all tv poker strategy discussion, and split off into tourny/cash game strat, et cetera.

although it has a single forum, it has > 50% of the posts than the home game section does.

[hachkc]

Originally Posted by wijwij

With MSIE, NONE of the blue text items at the top of the chiptalk main page work

I assume MSIE is Microsoft Internet Explorer? If so, what version is it? I run IE 6.0 and don't have any of those problems.

[alabubba]

If you combine "Articles" and "Reviews" into a single category that would eliminate a column and thus the need to side scroll. After all, reviews are articles.
That said...
While VERY cool, I too think it is redundant. I can get to any forum quickly and easily from the top of the page.



My $0.02

[wafflestomper]

My guess is that MSIE (IE for everyone else) is the Mac 5.1 version (since he also listed Safari) and I doubt many PC users are using Safari. If so, you really should be using it since it is an unsupported browser and has been for years now...

If it isn't the Mac version, then I don't know what the problem would be (esp. if it is 6.0 or higher).