I know I probably shouldn't post this here, but I just want my opinion to be heard and don't know where else to post. I hope some of the other guys will agree with me.

This place is going downhill fast.
There are too many forums. I'm only interested in posting in FTM sections of the forum. It'd be great if they were all in one place, but everything is moving further away and making it far more difficult to find and post what I want.

On most other forums, there is a FTM section, maybe with some sub-forums for surgery and such. Simple.
But here, if I want to find FTM stuff, it could be in transsexual talk, FTM transsexal talk, just for us (FTM) and any of the 6 subforums of transitioning.

I don't want to spend my time checking 9 various sections in hope that there's something that interests me. It's too time consuming and puts me off coming here at all.

If the forum stays like this, I'm no longer interested in being an active member. Perhaps not a big loss, but I don't imagine I'll be the only one who fades into the background.

If this is taken seriously by staff, then thank you.

Ryan I don't know if it is of any help to you but you know that in this new version of software you can set ingores not just on users but also on whole sections or subsections of the forum.

So if you go into the ignore boards option in your profile and tick all the sections that you are not interested in then they will effectively disappear and leave you ONLY seeing the sections that you want.

I hope that may help!

take care

Jenny.

i think an easy way to cure that would be a sticky link to where the subforums were moved to. took me quite a while to find out where the top surgery subforum had gone..

edit: thanks, jenny!

That definitely sounds helpful, but I just don't think that members should have to take such measures to make a forum usable.
Maybe not everyone feels this way, but surely there's other people here who are only interested in the MTF or FTM boards.
It all just seems too complicated to be worth it.

It's not that I don't know where the forums are, it's just that they're all so scattered that it's too much hassle to go opening them all.
I may be wrong, but I don't think the FTM sections even get enough posts in the various sections to justify so many subforums.

I would think about how your members navigate the forums and reorganise them accordingly.
Again, just my opinion.

It took me awhile to figure it out where things were moved. I'm also trying to figure out the whole reputation thing...you can view a person's thumbs up/down but if they're on some sort of warning you can't see why.

I haven't noticed much I just click on the new replies to my posts and unread since my last visit.

But you look super cute in your avatar.

Thanks You're looking rather hot, if I do say so myself!

Quote from: KimberlyJean on September 12, 2010, 02:48:16 PM
I haven't noticed much I just click on the new replies to my posts and unread since my last visit.

Same 

I do agree that it could be better if there were less sections.

I don't really know what else to say except that I totally agree with you Ryan. I find myself just not bothering and coming on less and less.

omg thanks! I love the glasses on you!!

Thanks Carson, I knew someone would agree!
It's a shame because I love this place. I wouldn't be posting this if I didn't care.

As for the replies thing, that's fine for topics you've already posted in, but I don't post that frequently. It's too bothersome to find new topics or to keep up with topics that you haven't posted in.

That's true. Sometimes I'll just go to the mtf section and read a bunch

I feel the same, I'm so busy these days I find myself barely bothering to check the various sections. It's too much effort when I only have a few minutes to browse.

You're definitely not the only one who feels this way, I have ADD so I get distracted easy if things aren't right in front of me, so having to navigate all over the forums just to find different ftm topics tends to quickly lose my attention. Not that I don't love Susans, but it would make it easier.

I feel the same way.  I've been posting less often because there are fewer posts in the FTM section, and I usually don't have anything useful to contribute to the threads that are up.  I don't often check the other sections either because only a small number of them are FTM related (and it's a pain to check 9 different sections, as you say), so I end up missing the ones that are.

This site has been a big help to me, but the re-location and separation of the groups has made things difficult to maneuver. 

i completely agree.

Yes, all the FTM posts should be in one place. I noticed the surgery forums moved but just thought they disappeared. Didn't bother looking and wouldn't want to search through them all either.

it's a bit messy at least, and i can't fight the feeling i'm missing a lot interesting posts.

Femboy; https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/board,339.0.html for coming out, hormones, surgery, therapy, legal matters and RLE.

wow I had no idea that "transitioning" section was there