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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for the great update!

Some thoughts:

Maybe each Forum could be a link, without the list of other “sub-forums” underneath? Basically: Parenting Discussion Forums Link, then Relationship Discussion Forums link, and so on.

Also, inside of each forum, maybe less info for each of the topics (on my phone, it looks a little bit too busy the way it is).

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The problem with using a responsive design is that it is hard to limit changes to just the mobile version. They tend to impact both versions. Neither of your ideas are impossible to implement for mobile-only, but the sub-forum idea is fairly challenging.

If I understand your second suggestion, you are referring to the number of replies, views, first and last post, etc? If so, I agree but in a previous attempt to use a design similar to this, mobile users were pretty strident about wanting the same info as desktop users. So, I have implemented it even though I think we could do without some of it.
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Maybe different formatting instead of links that I suggested (sorry I am not a web-developer)? In the current version, if I open the “Forums page” on my iPhone 14 Pro, it takes two full scrolls to see all the forums. In the new mobile version, it takes 5-6 full scrolls to see all the forums.
For the second suggestion, your idea at 16:15 sounded great (topic title across, other info below).[/quote]

I have changed the how the list of topics is displayed on the forum page. Let me know if that's better. Regarding the list of forum (the main page), what would be your suggestion to have less scrolls. The ideas that I can think of are:

1) smaller fonts;
2) don't display the description;
3) somehow have shorter descriptions; or
4) some combination of the above.

I don't really know how I could implement shorter descriptions without rewriting them for the desktop version as well. 
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