A couple of minor (I hope!) changes that would greatly improve my DU4 experience [View all]
The main one is that I'd like to see the "Your Posts" button reinstated, separated out from "My Stuff".
On DU3, when it lit up, it was a very useful cue that someone had engaged with one of your posts and you had the option to read and reply.
In the new format, it requires an extra click to access this among a large number of options. An extra click isn't going to kill me, but since you can't centre mouse-click to open "My Stuff" in a new browser tab, checking out why "My Stuff" has lit up and viewing post replies forces me away from whatever I was reading at the time.
There's space available to the right of the header of each whole-forum view, next to "About forum", to neatly accommodate an extra button.
A less crucial change, and maybe more tricky, is that I'd like to be able to customize what sub-forums appear in the upper left column on every screen. Currently, it just lists Latest Breaking News, General Discussion and The DU Lounge. I'd like to be able to add more options without having to subscribe to a subforum. For instance, I liked having Editorials & Other Articles available at a single mouse click on DU3. I've subscribed to that forum on DU4 so it's now easily available, but I don't need constant alerts about posts on it. I know I could have the "Navigate" tab permanently open to let me have one-click access again, but it takes up quite a lot of top-screen real estate and is more cumbersome.
Other than that, I'm pretty happy with the changes, especially using the trainer wheels of Skinner Mode!
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