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Amy Blankenship
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May 30, 2014
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How to get directly to discussions list?

  • May 30, 2014
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It used to be that most forums had a way to get directly to the full discussions list. For example, the Flash CC general had something like a "More" link at the bottom of trending or possibly Popular discussions. This wasn't consistent across forums even in the same community, but at least it was more direct than the current flow, or at least the best current flow I have found.:

  1. Select your community, press Go (would be cool if this would just go without that step).
  2. Select forum
  3. Pick a discussion, any discussion.
  4. Go "up" from the individual discussion to the discussions list.

It seems counterintuitive to me that you can get to the full discussions list from "below," but never from "above."

In a related note, is it possible to save a setting somewhere how you want those sorted? As someone who is nearly always visiting to answer questions, I usually want to sort by "Date created: newest first." I get that you have optimized for the people asking for help, but these features would nice for us to be able to help them ore effectively.

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    Correct answer Amy Blankenship

    Amy,

    I believe no one disagrees with you about what is desirable; some of us have just adjusted years ago, and settled for something consistent.


    Ha, there is a way to do it--it's just not especially discoverable. If you look when you have a forum selected, there is a dark gray bar with "Overview" highlighted. Next to it is "Content." If you click "Content," it takes you straight into the discussions.

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    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    May 30, 2014

    Amy,

    I have always just used forum Bookmarks (from about the turn of the Millennium, long before the present strangenesses).

    Claudio González
    Legend
    May 30, 2014

    Jacob, I also use bookmarks, but when I first getinto the forums, my bookmarks are truncated and I am taken to the All Content view:

    To enter directly to the Discussions view, I have to click on my bookmark for a second time, or open a second one:

    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    May 30, 2014

    Claudio,

    That is strange. I have never had any issues with Bookmarks.

    pwillener
    Legend
    May 30, 2014