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Suggestions regarding forum group titles

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MGMorden

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Hey guys - just a simple suggestion here that I figured I'd throw out.

A lot of people these days are using mobile devices to view internet content in general - with a lot of forum users using the Tapatalk app (which you guys have built in support for). The problem is that because when browsing the forum on such an app you get to the forum group titles in a list without the ones beneath it visible until you select one, it gets confusing without more descriptive headings.

Example:

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While it might not pose a problem on the web page - from a mobile device like this if you're not pretty familiar with the site already, you have no idea the difference between "Hogan's Alley" and "The North Corral" and what forums are beneath them - resulting in just digging through each one to find what you're looking for.

My personal suggestion would be to choose a little more descriptive names just to make navigation easier.
 
That's a good suggestion, and we'll mull it over.

However, are you sure you can't have the forum names appear as a default using Tapatalk and have it stored as a preference? I don't use that application, but I think someone would have mentioned that problem before now. And I agree it is a problem if that is the only way it works.

On a "regular" computer, what you illustrated looks like what would happen if someone clicked on all the group collapse buttons (little button to the far right of each category) and left them that way.
 
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