Regional Forum Updates

Haven't you tried this regional format in the past? It looks familiar.

Either way, it definitely de-emphasizes the US compared to what we had before. I don't think it will drive any international traffic but if you are able to drum up some new international visitors it might make them feel more welcome.

 

Great. Another step to go before I get to sort through a bunch of posts from a thousand miles away when looking for my local news. Lovely.

 

You can also just bookmark the west forum. I always land there when coming to the site.

If a single mouse or finger click is burdensome, though, you may want to speak to your Dr. That could indicate some serious health problems.

 

As noted in a previous thread with a user from Ohio, I use the internet in a manner that is simple and direct for me. Someone else may want 20 tabs open, I do not. I back completely out of a site everytime I finish up. If I come onto this site 12 times a day (and, most days it's more), it's a cumulative hassle. Adding layers is not improving simplicity.

And yes, I am still salty as fuck about the NW forum getting lumped in with SoCal and Colorado. Adding another level on top of that is yet another aggravation.

 

Choosing to have a shitty experience out of stubbornness is certainly one way to do things

 

Bad Update ,aggravating and not user friendly.

 

It takes only 2 more seconds to do

 

Perhaps you could suggest an improvement then?

 

I’d say a better user experience would be to add direct links under any of the folders including regions that contain sub-folders, so there is a direct link to everything on one page.

For additional space to facilitate, not sure listing the number of posts / discussions under each folder, or at least under the initial forum link (see below) is very meaningful. You can still keep / display that information on the next page after one actually clicks open a folder.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/

I’d keep the latest post display time/date as helpful to decide whether to skip over a folder without clicking open since your last visit.

Would also echo @BBThunderbolt ’s sentiment that the truncation of several US Regions into four folders makes navigation unwieldy. A more focused deeper dive within 6-8 US subregions would encourage more focused discussion and smaller states and breweries to have a space at the table. Currently I see “Breweries “too small” to have an individual thread because 12-17 states are jammed into a single region folder” threads.

The United States has over 2 million posts jammed into four folders, whereas Europe has more folders (five) to navigate through 3.5% of the volume of posts (2.0M vs. 0.07M).

Just offering at least to me thoughtful user suggestions / possible enhancements as a heavy user.

#ForeverGreatLakes

 

Put it back.

 

No, not at all. I value easiness, this is not that.

 

2 unnecessary and aggravating seconds. Sure, let's make things more difficult for actual users in exchange for the ease of possible future users.

 

Hardly the end of the world or a major inconvenience (obviously), but also definitely a change for the worse. Format changes should make the forums more accessible and user-friendly, not less.

 

One user's opinion: a tiny bit more scrolling is far less annoying than is another click for a new page (again: I realize these are both trivial).