Better BW Chat Board Layout

A friend encouraged me to use these boards to plan an upcoming theatre trip to the city. So much useful information hidden in such an unfriendly site layout

I work in user interface design, and after reading through the same questions for the same shows on multiple threads that clutter up the site, a vast improvement would be made if each show had a thread hierarchy established by the site mods.

A simple IF-THEN algorithm could also be put into place to direct people to these standard threads when they try and create a new thread topic that seems to be duplicative.

Here is one example based on the threads that seem to get established for each show. ...

SHOW NAME

-Casting
-Preview Performances
-Post-Preview Performances
-Reviews
-General seating advice
-Rush and lotto
-Merchandise
-Stage door

This is based on impressions of a first-time visitor. I am sure regular users could improve upon the idea greatly. But the site would be so much more appealing if the discussion board section was more user-friendly.

Updated On: 3/21/17 at 07:11 AM

Stevo3 said: "So much useful information hidden in such an unfriendly site layout...the site would be so much more appealing if the discussion board section was more user-friendly."

You're preaching to the choir.

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Babe_Williams said: "This board needs the ability to 'like' posts so people can acknowledge responses without having to quote someone.

The board also needs notifications so each user can see when their name is tagged or response is quoted.

And last, this board needs to be able to bring you to the last response you read each time you click a thread."

Yes, please - ALL of this!

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wonderfulwizard11 said: "No idea if anyone else has this issue, but when I surf this website using Safari on my phone, every so often I get this big pop-up saying that I've won a Wal-Mart gift card. It's irritating because it takes me to a totally different page and I have to reload entirely. Any way that can be stopped?"

I get this sort of thing as well and it's very annoying.

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