DG Site Updates: Changes to the Forums, 2 by DreamOfSpring

DreamOfSpring wrote:
There are a couple of other related lists you can add to your home page, 1 in particular which will mostly eliminate your need for the Forum List on the Communities page.

Photo 1 below shows the Favorite Forums list. Having this list on your home page will allow you to see at a glance whether anything has changed in your favorite forums since you last visited them. It is also a very handy way to navigate to one of your favorite forums just by clicking on the forum name. Remember, to add this or any of the other Customizable items to your home page, just assign it to a column and position (one which is not already used). If you need an update on how to do this, see my last post above and note how mine is assigned on the attachment to that post. (Note that in Photo 1, 1 added the words "Favorite Forums" shown in red at the top of the image and the red circles. These things will not be on your screen.)

There are 2 ways, that I know of, to add forums to your favorites list. 1 is to use the Forum Settings option in your Preferences, but I believe that is currently broken. The other is to simply click the link at the top of each desired forum, the link for adding it to your favorites.

My favorites list includes all of the forums I use regularly and even those I refer to occasionally. As a result, I almost never need to use the Forum List under Communities, and I would never even have realized anything had been changed recently had I not heard others talking about it.
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There are a couple of other such home page items you might want to consider. Photo 2 below shows the Latest Posts and Photo 3 shows the Latest Threads. You can add either or both of these to your home page as desired. Just find them on the list under "Customize Homepage" in Preferences and assign them to positions. If you are unsure, consider adding them all for a while to see which you like. You can always remove the ones you don't care for later. (All red circles are annotations I added for emphasis.)