It's not a very web 2.0 thing to do and seeing as we're moving on to improve the website's aesthetics, I think the following should be taken into account.
Sythe User Center
Useful, but there should be no rules & donations section, especially when there's no more rules there. Just move it to community, or put a link for it that's more accessible than Quick Links. I think people expect it under User CP anyway. I would assume the most popular place would be right next to "Private Messages" on the right side, as people are very used to clicking that.
Skip to Market
Good idea, but it doesn't always work. You press it, it hides community. But if community is already minimized, it just makes community sections go into rules and donations. Just make it minimize community, and that will teach the user they can maximize it in the future.
Important Member Rules
Just put this link at the top, next to Quick Links, or somewhere else. It doesn't need to be accessed that often to where it needs its own section.
Report a Scammer link in Market Tools
Useful, but the Market tools are already too far down for it to be convenient. In fact it's easier to just scroll all the way down than try to locate it in the center. Either move Market tools up, or get rid of it. Actually, if the admins can check how many people actually click this link vs. viewed report a scammer it would be a good way to tell if it's useless.
Stickies
People are getting so used to these, especially with the different design, that they are easily ignored, while it still clutters the forums like advertisements in between the content. This will probably be a future project if enough people are interested, but make stickies un-stickied once it is read. There could be a button for it as well. Or at least permit people to hide the sticky section all-together, at their own risk. If the goal of stickies is unless to give much more attention to those threads, they should not be colored differently to where people can ignore them, but the number of stickies per forum should be cut down to one.
Useful, but there should be no rules & donations section, especially when there's no more rules there. Just move it to community, or put a link for it that's more accessible than Quick Links. I think people expect it under User CP anyway. I would assume the most popular place would be right next to "Private Messages" on the right side, as people are very used to clicking that.
Skip to Market
Good idea, but it doesn't always work. You press it, it hides community. But if community is already minimized, it just makes community sections go into rules and donations. Just make it minimize community, and that will teach the user they can maximize it in the future.
Important Member Rules
Just put this link at the top, next to Quick Links, or somewhere else. It doesn't need to be accessed that often to where it needs its own section.
Report a Scammer link in Market Tools
Useful, but the Market tools are already too far down for it to be convenient. In fact it's easier to just scroll all the way down than try to locate it in the center. Either move Market tools up, or get rid of it. Actually, if the admins can check how many people actually click this link vs. viewed report a scammer it would be a good way to tell if it's useless.
Stickies
People are getting so used to these, especially with the different design, that they are easily ignored, while it still clutters the forums like advertisements in between the content. This will probably be a future project if enough people are interested, but make stickies un-stickied once it is read. There could be a button for it as well. Or at least permit people to hide the sticky section all-together, at their own risk. If the goal of stickies is unless to give much more attention to those threads, they should not be colored differently to where people can ignore them, but the number of stickies per forum should be cut down to one.
