PlatinumScum

It seems totally broken on mobile (shows the desktop version of the home page).

No.

Don't care.

bobert24

That's partially a personal preference thing, and partially a generational thing. I pretty much don't use bookmarks at all. In fact, I just looked for the button that shows the bookmarks on my browser, and it took me a second to remember where it was. I usually access FT by starting to type the address (flyertalk.com/forum) into my address bar, and hitting enter 2-3 characters in, when the autocomplete pops up. Sometimes I click the link in the frequently visited sites of my new tab page.

I also rarely if ever navigate directly to a single forum (I have a few that I frequent). I get to the forum homepage, and open the forum(s) I'm interested in in new tabs. Or, if I'm looking specifically for a followup to a question or answer I've posted, I'll go to Quick Links > My Posts.

So there are tons of ways that people come into the forum, and interact with it once they do. And I'm really wondering how many of those the developers took into account when they put this new design in place. This is a very Apple-like approach: "This is how we think you should use our product, so that's how you should use it. Any other method you may have or want is silly, and must not be condoned." And sorry, FT, but you don't have the marketing genius Apple does to be able to actually get away with something as customer-unfriendly as that.

bobert24

This is 100% accurate. I noticed the same thing a few days ago. It would be great if they could build in the intelligence to do this automatically, so I'm not taken back to the trending homepage once I log in.

I'd love to hear what their metrics are on this new homepage. For anybody who's never been on FT before (those coveted new users), it makes it look like the site has almost no real content on it. Are new users sticking around and finding anything? Are current users disabling the page, or perhaps not even hitting it (like hiddy above)? I'd find it hard to believe, but is this new homepage somehow increasing pageviews and forum usage? These are all numbers that IB should have at their fingertips - even small nothing websites can get this info for their visitors. I'd be really interested in seeing how this is working out for them.

seat 1a

So now I can participate again.

zitsky

On mobile no problem. On desktop even signed in with preference saved, I still get trending page. I have to make sure url includes /forum page.

Silver Fox

Thank heavens for the opt out. Forcing people into this smacks of absolute arrogance and disregard for the people that use this site. If you want to beta test these things then ask for people to do so, then ask people if they want to opt-in themselves. Trending - seriously, that is for millenials who have to "get down with the kids" and be cool so they now what's going on "like". We are mostly grown-ups that use this site, and can work it out for ourselves what is important, so can you ... start looking at the feedback that has been ignored in other suggestions from, erm, users? How about that for a concept.

84fiero

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The above points about disregarding FT members are especially worth considering in light of the fact that this site relies on its members/users for basically all of its content* which is what draws visitors and makes money for IB.

*I'm not counting the vapid front page "articles", although those would still only make up a very tiny fraction.

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kipper

I visit certain forums, and generally don't venture into others. I like being able to quickly navigate to the forums I want to visit, using multiple windows.

Shareholder

Worst innovation yet! Ranks up there with the NEW COKE!! Why did it take so long to give us a fix to kill it? Why not do something useful for us? in particular, give us Canadians (and Brits) and AIR MILES forum.

nmh1204

would've thought they'd have removed it seeing as no one likes it

gobluetwo

Would like to hear from IB in terms of whether they're planning on rolling back this change, making it explicitly opt-in (vs current opt-out), or taking one of the alternative suggestions that were made up-thread (if you can find those few in the midst of the all the angst and rending of clothes).

There is now a forum where you can suggest that very idea.
The Suggestion Box:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/suggestion-box-756/

Buster

This. It made the home screen hopelessly cluttered, to the point where I couldn't find what I was looking for. I actually figured that this was going to be the straw that broke the camel's back and I was just going to stop visiting FT. It wasn't until I went to the Technical Support forum and that I discovered I could opt out.

Mary2e

Why don't you use save the link to MyFlyertalk and enter that way? I haven't seen the home page in over a year.

I switched when my company started blocking certain things from loading and I was constantly locking up.

zitsky

Appreciate the suggestion but that only takes you to subscribed forums. Why doesnt IB just fix what they broke????