[Tokencon]

...that's the problem...there isn't any.

Your homepage is fine for accessing tech issues forums, but you offer a political forum too, and finding that is hit or miss. Mostly miss.

If you are going to offer this forum, make it EASY to access...I don't know whether you know this or not, but it is 2004, not 1994, so this should be something any 10 yr old who can key would be able to accomplish.

Thanks
Tokenconservative.

[gorickey]

[Dex13]

Originally posted by Tokencon:
...that's the problem...there isn't any.

Your homepage is fine for accessing tech issues forums, but you offer a political forum too, and finding that is hit or miss. Mostly miss.

If you are going to offer this forum, make it EASY to access...I don't know whether you know this or not, but it is 2004, not 1994, so this should be something any 10 yr old who can key would be able to accomplish.

Thanks
Tokenconservative.

The Political Forum is "Temporary" anyways so stop whining.

[gorgonzola]

The Political Lounge is a somewhat temporary subforum of the Lounge; it's not really considered a "separate forum," which is why there is no listing for it. It's assumed that people will go into the Lounge if they want to post on a political topic, and then see the Political Lounge there. I find it a bit hard to believe that anyone would come here looking for a forum explicitly labelled for political discussion right off the bat; so far, people don't seem to have had any trouble finding it. We thought through this issue and decided to leave the political lounge off the main forums index.

If there are any other ease of use issues you would like to point out, we'd be interested in hearing about them.

Thanks!

[reader50]

Originally posted by Tokencon:
... this should be something any 10 yr old who can key would be able to accomplish...

Yes, we need more 10 yr olds in the Pol Lounge. Definitely.

[tooki]

Originally posted by Tokencon:
If you are going to offer this forum, make it EASY to access...I don't know whether you know this or not, but it is 2004, not 1994, so this should be something any 10 yr old who can key would be able to accomplish.

Or you could just bookmark your favorite forum.

tooki

[Zimphire]

I use the "User Center" and just make the forums I go to my "favorites" or whatever they are called.

[Dale Sorel]

Originally posted by Dex13:
The Political Forum is "Temporary" anyways so stop whining.

Thanks goodness

[Zimphire]

Temporary.. till when?

Looks like it will be there for another 4 years.

[DekuDekuplex]

Originally posted by tooki:
Or you could just bookmark your favorite forum.

tooki

Actually, it would be even more useful if we could bookmark our favorite posts, not just threads.

For example, the Apple Discussions forums have a button on each post that can bookmark that specific post, not just the entire thread. Further, the bookmarks can be named individually.

That way, when I later want to search for something interesting chronologically that belongs to a ten-page-long thread, I can just zero-in on that specific post, organized by reader-specified name.

I just had to spend several minutes copying-and-pasting two posts to myself in order to be sure not to lose the information within because the threads were long. If I could have bookmarked the individual posts and named the bookmarks, then I could have posted more messages, instead.

-- DekuDekuplex

[tooki]

At the bottom of each post is a "direct link" link, which you can bookmark (control-click it).

tooki

[DekuDekuplex]

Originally posted by tooki:
At the bottom of each post is a "direct link" link, which you can bookmark (control-click it).

tooki

This is useful! Thanks, tooki! That's exactly what I was looking for!



-- DekuDekuplex