Hi, when I go to the top page as a naive novel user, I most likely want to do one of two things: Ask a question Search These two features should be prominent and simple on the first screen that a user sees.

Hi, To build on what @ihnorton did, I updated to: include horizontal line separator indicated questions are organized in categories indicated how to post a new question indicated how to search the archive I think some block could still be re-ordered … [image]

I think we can remove “You can log in with Google, GitHub, Facebook, or email” - people will prompted to log in when it is relevant. Maybe we can change it to something like this “Sign in with … to receive updates about new software releases and major events”.

Good point. Here is an updated version: [image]

I’ve moved the short description of Slicer to the top, to make sure people know they are at the right place. For example, to prevent them posting questions about Slic3r or other similar software or products.

OK. All good stuff. How about the following in order to prevent confusion: Just one line about Slicer, with 3D Slicer being a link: Welcome to the 3D Slicer forum! Next, I really would like to see the following on top: [image] The first line should read: Click +New Topic to ask a question. B…

Another important information for naive users (me included) is how to subscribe to the forums. How do I do that? I thought i was subscribed, and then i just connected to post something new and saw all these new posts!!

Right now users are only watching Announcements by default. If you want to get notifications for other categories you can click “Watching” in the right side of the screen: [image] But… this is definitely, 100% non-obvious! Maybe we should have everyone watch Support automatically as well? That s…

@ihnorton are you saying that we have to watch topics one by one?

You can also control all watch settings for categories/tags/etc. in bulk under (top right icon → username) → Preferences: [image] This is the only thing I don’t like about Discourse so far. The mailing list mode works really well, but it is a little more difficult than I had hoped for users to ge…

[image] bpaniagua: are you saying that we have to watch topics one by one? Not exactly. Watching options are described in the screenshot posted by @ihnorton [image] ihnorton: Maybe we should have everyone watch Support automatically as well? That seems like a reasonable assumption for ne…

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Block nabble forums Forum and website feedback	13	3110	June 9, 2017

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