Originally Posted by
lo2e
Also disabled it because it is absolutely useless for me - there are only certain forums on FT that I frequent, so the "trending threads" page just shows me a bunch of stuff that I have zero interest in and zero want to see.
Is there a way to switch the widths of the two areas - make the forum directory the wide side and the trending threads the thin? You MIGHT interest me if you did this.
Originally Posted by
hi-guy
Takes up too much prime real estate. If anything, put the original forum layout center stage and put this trending thing on the side.
This x1000. The layout is backwards. The forums should be the main part of the screen, and possibly a few trending topics on the sidebar. One website that managed to pull this off is
https://slickdeals.net - check out their "popular" and "trending" deals sections on the right side of the homepage.
Also, as others have noted, guests or people who select only subscribed forums get almost all white space. No thanks. More poor design.
And, of course, the "trending" threads are of zero interest to me. FT is too big a community, with too varied interests, to think what's trending will often, if ever, be interesting to a majority of the users.