this new forum sucks

Once you look around for a bit and see how they work it's not too difficult to find things. There are still some things that need to be fixed and they will be. My only real complaint is the loading times.

The forums'll get better.

Without an overhaul of the underlying software it is hard to see how they will get better, barring a redesign that is.

Go to forums.xbox.com and you have to wait for the page to load, then you wait for the suggested boards to load, then you click on see all forums and once again wait for a page to load, then you can start scrolling for the board you want, if it is Zumba Fitness
you've got a lot of scrolling to do. You can't even CTRL+F to find what you want because the full page does not load.

For a new visitor to this site it is very user unfriendly. It's not so bad when you have everything you want bookmarked or followed, but the same problems occur if you want to go to a new section. People who have been members for a while will want to try and
push through the poor design because they have fostered relationships with the community here, for a new person though...well there is a reason the #iDARB board is getting a lot of unrelated posts.

The load times are the big issue though. I come to this Xbox One board and I have to wait for the page to load, then I can enter a thread but only the first post appears and I have to wait for the page to load. Perhaps the most important thing on any website,
but especially a discussion forum, is minimizing load times. Microsoft seem to have designed a system to add extra load times.

Oh and why do posts take so much time to appear in threads? I go to any other forum and post and my reply appears instantly. Here though I can be waiting five minutes or more before my response appears, hardly good for fostering conversations.

Think even the mods have given up on this place.Posts that were reported several days ago are still unchanged.

They may as well just shut this place down if this is the best they can do as it's even more dead than it was before.

We can see the front end of this place is pretty bad, I can't imagine the backend of it is any better.

You have to wonder what the new mod tools are like. I expect they are as bad as the front end.

I haven't seen this much crying about a forum update since the last forum update. Lol... The absence of some posters has made it even better in my eyes.

This new update with the forums may be a bit hard to find some things but it is 10x better then before.

I haven't seen this much crying about a forum update since the last forum update. Lol... The absence of some posters has made it even better in my eyes.

They took down some posters? Which ones? I hadn't even noticed... that's just kwazy.

I think Goth just means that some have stopped coming here after the update because they do not like them now.

Ummm... #sarcasm. lol XD