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Old Mar 25, 2012 | 8:03 am
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Originally Posted by Reason077
Now, you have to click through on "Europe" or "The World" before those forums are revealed.

The various "United States" sub-forums are still directly accessible, as are the forums which are directly under "The World".
That's the direct effect from the 3 subfora our Community Director created the day before. See my post#2.

Same thing happened to Asia Forum that I frequent. I didn't get to see the other "sub"fora (China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand...etc) when I arrived at Asia Forum. But now those subfora are at the top of Asia Forum.

Originally Posted by Reason077
It's not the order of the forums that bothers me, its the fact that the various forums under Europe are now buried so deeply that they are hard to find.

"Europe" should be at the same level as "United States", not under "The World".
How fora are ordered has everything to do with the forum structure, the issue you just raised. It was weird to see the following when I click on the new link to "Europe Forum":

There are no posts in this forum.
I don't know what's wrong with the setup for Europe Forum. At least when I visit Asia Forum now, every thread is still listed under the newly "squeezed" in subfora (at the top).

ETA:
I agree with you that Europe should be at least at the same level as United States. Geographically or "continentally" speaking, "United States" is smaller than "North America." Should "United States" get higher ranked forum position just because IB is a US-based company? Some standardization of fora categories based on world geography will be a much more welcome revision, IMHO.

FWIW, I do think this is all related and should be part of the existing thread:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/talkb...s-ordered.html

Last edited by lin821; Mar 25, 2012 at 1:03 pm Reason: ...etc & ETA: more clarification
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