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highplainsdem

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5. Skinner Mode looks quite a bit like DU3, but doesn't work as well. I wish it did, but no matter which mode
Tue Oct 31, 2023, 01:04 PM
Oct 2023

I try (and I've used both Default and Skinner mode a lot), I find DU4 more difficult and time-consuming to use than DU3.

Including with reaching forums other than the main ones. And I don't want to have to subscribe to all the forums I occasionally want to check, just to be able to reach them easily, since it means way too many notifications when I look at the subscription page.

Would you please at least add a couple of lines at the top of each of the displays of forums - in the confusing new arrangement with the forums grouped under Issue, Culture, Alliance, Region, Support - naming all the different forums in that grouping ALPHABETICALLY, so people can click those links and don't have to hunt for a forum's name in a vertical list where the placement may be constantly shifting depending on how active the forum is? Even if you already know which of the five buttons will eventually take you to the forum you want - and those names do seem to be causing more confusion than what we had on DU3 - there are 50some forums under Culture Forums, for instance, and good luck guessing where those individual links will be on the page at any particular moment, though the most active forums do tend to stay near the top.

I'm not talking about a vertical list of just the forum names. Definitely don't want that. But a few horizontal lines at the top, above the table with the latest discussions in each forum, with all the forum names in alphabetical order would help a lot.

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