We’re looking to tidy up the Forza Forums for better navigation and discussion and would like your feedback about forums layout.
Today we’ve added Category and Subcategory dropdowns which should help make navigating to another category faster, and help provide a sense of where you are in the forums when looking at the topic view, particularly on mobile.
Another issue we want to address is to put as much official game info and guidance in front of players, but obviously want to keep pinned topics to a minimum.
Would you prefer that official info such as car/outfit/routes lists and Festival Playlist overviews be linked from a single pinned index thread? Would it help to have a separate Official Info subcategory in the Forza Horizon 5 > FH5 Discussion Would you prefer navigating to official info via tags for official-info and each feature? Would you like to see a dedicated section for Community Guides and tips?
Please provide feedback below. This request is for adjustments to the forums in their current framework, so we’d still be using categories and tags rather than something radically different. Please keep your feedback focused in that context.
Please indicate mobile or desktop as the primary way you visit the forums.
not a fan. this is not something I’ll ever use and takes up way too much room on mobile. why can’t we just have one list of FH5 topics, some of them pinned, without all this redundant navigation?
I know mobile is possibly the worst platform that you can use to access a forum but it looks properly rendered on my phone. The main page isn’t a problem because it’s not sticky and I like the breadcrumbs on the post pages
@geistwriter@Bravo437 what browser are you using because I’m using Brave (which is the Chrome engine) on an heavily degoogled 2019 el-cheapo Huawei phone. I have heard that Safari is not the best at web rendering so if you’re on an iPhone then that is possibly why
All browsers on iPhone use the Safari WebKit engine because Apple won’t allow competing engines. On other platforms, Chrome has it’s own (Blink) as does Firefox (Gecko) but on Apple, all browsers are basically Safari
my honest opinion, it seems the browser engine is not working nicely with the responsive page elements which typically shouldn’t be a problem if everything is to W3C standard but I’m starting to get into web design territory here
The solution on the forum side might be to slightly reduce the size of the buttons/filters
I only visit this forum on a desktop computer. I much prefer the layout and flow the way it was before. Not a fan of the changes.
While not part of this question, I do not like how the Horizon section is not at the bottom of the page and I need to scroll all the way to the bottom to find it. It use to be at the top of the page.
Honestly, given the posting date, I was hoping this was an April Fools joke.
to be fair, I do everything on a desktop PC because I really don’t like the mobile web experience for anything other than quickly looking something up on the fly.
All mobile browsing looks bad to me compared to desktop but as far as the forum goes, it seems like one of the better sites for mobile
I think that is how it’s supposed to look with the responsive design . Personally, I don’t see an issue with it because the navigation filters are not sticky so as soon as you scroll, they are not taking up screen space. Having sticky navigation would have made it unusable.
I’m not a mobile web user but the design changes seem functional and usable enough to me
I’m a desktop user and I actually like the changes to the desktop rendering but they really don’t alter the layout, only give an alternative
On a desktop, screen space is not really an issue so an extra small bar at the top of the page is hardly a problem if you don’t want to use it. My screen is 1080P and the forum content window doesn’t even fill the dimensions of the screen so I do think the point is moot for desktop users
The real impact will be on mobile users because screen space is always severely restricted so you need to be clever with how you use the available space
