title. this forum layout sucks. is it going to stay a feed and impossible to navigate? the traditional forum structure with categories is much easier to navigate.
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I feel like I"m looking at a fraction of the forum, like I’m “missing” a lot because it seems so minimalist. It’s devoid of any flair. The black theme is nice, but that’s it. This isn’t a “I want the old back,” But the structure is awful, not intuitive, and really there are so many good forums on the web - there is no reason to try and re-invent the wheel. I hope this is a temporary placeholder or get an actual human to work on it please.
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I’m gonna be blunt and honest here
I absolutely hate the new format.
It’s a waste of space using it on a desktop, and yet you still don’t see what you need.
It seems like 10 steps in teh wrong direction when it comes to web design compared to the old forums.
Time moves on, I guess…
(This forum seems more useable for a phone, or tablet etc though… since a lot of things we usually had are stripped and hidden behind other tabs/buttons)
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I have the solution, or at least I have found the way to restore a Visual Appearence that resembles the old PCF forum 
First of all, you have noticed that in the new Forum the dimension of the Text is actually TOO BIG, so BIG that it’s even bothering : so, in order to set a smaller text appearence, quite similar to the old PCF forum Visual-Feeling, simply do this :
1) Click on your Avatar icon in the upper right corner of the screen : some small Icons will appear, forming a column; then find the “PROFILE” Icon, click on it, then find and click “PREFERENCES” :
- When you enter “PREFERENCES”, in the right zone of the screen you will find and CLICK “INTERFACE” : OK , at this point you can IMPROVE DEEPLY your Forum experience : as “THEME”, just select “Material Design Theme”, which BY DEFAULT provides a bit smaller Text than the other 2 Themes, THEN as “Text Size” now you can choose a smaller text as well (I personally love the “SMALLEST TEXT”-option : which recreates a kind of good ‘PCF visual-feeling’ ).
- If you like a very good “Dark Mode” -like I do- also select “Clover Dark” as Dark Mode.
Then just click “SAVE CHANGES”, in the bottom of the “Interface” page, and here it is : a MUCH more USER-FRIENDLY Forum
( If other people, as I think, appreciate this pleasant “PCF”-Setup , I would suggest Moderators to implement all this as the new DEFAULT-INTERFACE mode. By this you can totally improve the User-Experience, very easily and very fast. Enjoy )
Cheers
Paul
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Thanks a big bunch there, Paul. This helped indeed quite a bit!