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[Ryan]

Surgery used to be a sub forum here, but now it's in the new transitioning section.

[LordKAT]

I hate to tell ya this guys, but I never noticed a change at all.

[Silver]

The FTM board subforums seem rather pointless to me. I'd really just rather not check them, and it's not like topics about binder stuff in the FTM board were a problem. But I don't think it is going downhill.

Hey don't leave, you're cool. Maybe we should sticky a set of links to the boards that might be of interest to FTMs on this board.

[kelly_aus]

This old grumpy bitch is gonna throw in her 2c worth.. Did some forums move after the upgrade, sure, but it hasn't left Susans and harder or easier to navigate than other forums I'm a member of, and tbh, the only real difference I noticed was the CSS being applied. It seems to me that anyone under about 30 has the attention span of a flea and expects everything to be spoon-fed to them.. 

[Ryan]

Kelly, I think you're completely off the mark.
Many people like to quickly check new topics and posts before they go to school/work etc. When there are at least 9 forums for FTM topics, that's a lot of hassle.
For example, I allow myself 20 minutes of internet use before I have to get dressed and go to work. Susan's no longer fits in that time, so I don't bother coming here at all unless I have a lot of free time.

It's definitely left Susan's harder to navigate than other forums. At least for the FTM topics.
Maybe we do all have short attention spans, but we are the members and the forum should be based around our needs.

That's sounded a bit stuck up perhaps, but I didn't mean it in that way. I love these forums and I'm grateful that they give us a place to talk, but you still have to think about the best ways to draw in new members, and keep the old ones posting. It's a great forum, but at the moment, it's poorly implemented.

[meh]

I subscribed to the RSS feeds for each forum I want to get updates on. Easier that way and I don't miss anything.

[insideontheoutside]

I've been getting by on the "show new replies to your posts" and then just going to the main sections for topics like FTM and the Androgyne boards. I often just click on the "show unread posts since last visit" too to see what's going on in general.

[Cowboi]

Honestly I never even noticed the change. However I didn't ever check many of the areas other than the FTM one to begin with. I've found that I've been more active on different types of topics and in discussions crossing over to all types of users (in comparison to pretty much exclusively talking with other FTMs before). Maybe this kind of has to do with the change, now there is a reason to peak at the other forums because I've noticed there are FTM topics there, then it gets me reading more general posts that don't only apply to us.

idk, I don't have an opinion on if it's good or bad, I'm just curious now if the change is what lead to me finding more sections to be active in and more conversations with different types of people. No real way to know since i have no idea when the changes were even made...