New filtered category view, darker theme, improved search access & more

Meggo

Good Afternoon! 

We just deployed several changes to the community to make it easier to find and follow conversations that interest you the most.

• Added “following” category filter. You can now opt to only view followed categories. To use this feature, “follow” categories of interest, go to the “Categories” page (https://community.infosecinstitute.com/categories) and change your view to “Following” by clicking the “View” drop down box in the top left of your screen. This will apply a filtered view to your Category page

• Added search function to every page

• Reduced brightness of theme

• Further expanded discussion post width; reduced margins and font sizes

• Moved author bio information to left of post (instead of at the top) to improve discussion flow

In the works:

• Adding a dark theme option. In the meantime, you might find this plugin helpful: https://darkreader.org/ (thanks, @draught! 

• Adding “Certifications” field to author bio area at the discussion level

A huge thanks to everyone who provided feedback following our initial launch. Your comments have not gone unnoticed! If you have additional suggestions, please drop them on this thread. We look forward to your feedback and will continue to make improvements to the community overtime.

iBrokeIT

Good job Meggo and team!

NetworkNewb

Definitely looking better.  Nice work!

COBOL_DOS_ERA

Good job guys!! much better

SteveLavoie

Reduced brightness of theme

It is just about right now..  clear but now glowing. This way, I would not need a dark theme

PC509

I like this much better. Thank you and the rest of your team for taking the suggestions of the users and making it happen (if possible). I really appreciate it! 

Johnhe0414

@Meggo Awesome! Thank you!!

DZA_

Keep those good changes coming.  

kaiju

Thanks for the update!

Spiegel

This is looking very good. Great work to everyone involved!

MontagueVandervort

This is starting to look a lot better! I hope our avatars come back though.

wd40

Thanks, it looks better now.

One more suggestion, elearnsecurity should have its own category under Information Security Certifications

DZA_

MontagueVandervort said:

This is starting to look a lot better! I hope our avatars come back though.

Thats what I noticed too, everyone's response looks blended in together. I don't think the size has to be as big as the OP's but even a 100x100 px I would be OK with. 

Meggo

We removed the avatars in comments to reduce the fixed min length of a comment post (limit scrolling as much as we can), but I do see what you mean, @DZA_ and @MontagueVandervort. 

Maybe we should take a forum poll in a few days? 

iBrokeIT

I think you should reduce the size of the first post avatar 60% and add the rest back in at that reduced size.

cyberguypr

I gotta say I do use the avatars to quickly scan who posts. Having said that, they seem massive to me. Perhaps resurrecting them and reducing size would help?

UnixGuy

I agree with bringing avatars back, it makes it easier to identify posters  

DZA_

cyberguypr said:

I gotta say I do use the avatars to quickly scan who posts. Having said that, they seem massive to me. Perhaps resurrecting them and reducing size would help?

UnixGuy said:

I agree with bringing avatars back, it makes it easier to identify posters  

Is this to see who post BSs and who doesn't? I'm kidding. 

cyberguypr

YES! 

EANx

Agree with bringing back avatars

DZA_

cyberguypr said:

YES! 

Exposing the fakes and keeping it real since 2007. 

JoJoCal19

Avatars are definitely needed. Not that I ignore posts from people whose avatar I don't recognize, but when I'm quickly scanning a thread I like to quickly be able to attribute a post to a user without having to read the username.

Johnhe0414

cyberguypr said:

I gotta say I do use the avatars to quickly scan who posts. Having said that, they seem massive to me. Perhaps resurrecting them and reducing size would help?

Same here! - Agree

infosec_darren

Avatars are back! keep the suggestions coming & we'll keep working

Meggo

NetworkNewb

Site is looking soooo much better from when it first was updated!     

DZA_

The world has been restored, thanks guys!

Johnhe0414

Thanks!

PC509

Looks much better. I love the evolution of this site. Thanks!

SteveLavoie

I like how responsive the community manager are... Bravo!

cyberguypr

Did anyone notice how Meggo is embracing memes ? That was a big no-no under the old administration. And some people thought TE was dying, NAH!!!!!