Maybe I'm Stupid...
But navigating through this forum confuses me.
Perhaps it's because I'm used to a more traditional forum set up?
Primarily when I have new notification, and I click the button and it shows me like...ALL of the latest activity in the last thread I participated in. And I cant' tell if someone has responded to me or if someone has just responded period and.....yeah. This place confuses me. I hope I get used to it...or it becomes clearer somehow. ;.;
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I managed to get used to the system, but yeah, they need to separate replies, activity, or related posts.
That would be a start for this forum.
It's not just you. I find this place extremely confusing as well. And especially so because it's so broken on mobile devices.
The solution I found is just to never have anything in the "Followed Discussions" sidebar. That way, I know that all of the notifications I get are from direct replies to me.
Why did they even waste so much money making this new setup from scratch? It's especially terrible on mobile devices.
They should have just used this:
https://www.vbulletin.com/
It actually uses Vanilla
It's a heavily modified Vanilla forum, but Vanilla is still at it's core.
Interesting. That might actually be a good thing, because it could mean that they might less attached to sticking to this one. That's my hope, anyway.
I always thought this one was also good and easy to use:
http://www.simplemachines.org
You know what's funny... the Vanilla webpage can't even be centered when viewed on my iPhone. I've never encountered a website that was so hard to view on my phone. Explains a lot about this lovely forum. LOL. Seriously, guys, if you have an iPhone, go to http://vanillaforums.org/