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We received an anonymous suggestion box comment today asking about switching the logo to link back to the forum instead of the home page. After talking with Qam, she will look into this later on in the week when she has time. It may or may not be possible. There are also implications for SEO, which quite a few members have been putting forward as greater in the scope of importance.

I get what you mean though -- clicking the logo is what my own muscle memory tells me to do in order to go back to the forums! But it's an easy enough mental swap, and possible to adjust. :hug And again, Qam will look into it. (But no guarantees, SEO > this.)
 
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Interested to see what happens.
 

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That would have been me.....I asked about it in the suggestion box not knowing if the suggestion box or here was a better option. :look:
 

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I definitely get it ... especially in mobile. :D
 

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That would have been me.....I asked about it in the suggestion box not knowing if the suggestion box or here was a better option. :look:

All good!

The box is just anonymous, so I didn't have a way to let anyone know a response. So I posted here. :laugh:
 

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So to be clear, the main /index page will still be the home page. But if you click on the logo in the header, it will link to the ?forums page instead of /index. Right?

I'm on desktop, and somehow am already in the habit of clicking "Forums". I didn't even know you could click on the logo. :look: I see there's an extra click for that on mobile, though.
 

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Qam looked into it today, and apparently the way Xenforo is set up -- changing it would require a workaround in multiple places, and any time we change stuff in the future we'll have to remember to account for the workaround. I'm not willing to commit future work for this. If the workaround were a "one and done" solution, perhaps. But the way the site is configured, that would not be the case.

I've personally started using the "Forums" link that follows down the page on desktop. I adore it muchly! On mobile, I get that there's a click -- but it's not super complex or convoluted, and I hope we all adapt. :hug
 

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I think that having more home page clicks, even accidentally, will probably help us in the long run. I do the same thing though, and then I have to use the drop down.
 

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I suspect you might right, Ty. Looking up "wheel of time community" has Tar Valon.Net on Page 2 about halfway down. Which I don't think was there before!
 

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We definitely weren't.. we were buried on page 50+ before. So it is improving, but we still have more we can (and will) do.

And yes, more clicks the better. The more links to our main page, the better (both within our own pages and outside of it..).
 
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