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Do you use the short or long menu?

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115612.54 in reply to 115612.52
Date: 10/19/2009 9:39:17 AM
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The redesing don´t works fine, i used short menu for 3 or 4 month and you need always one click more than using long menu.

I don't see how you expected anything else, and the idea of the short menu isn't to click less.

And how is it a good idea then? Why would I want to click more?

For me, it takes me less time to click twice than to scroll like crazy to find the one specific line in the long menu. Maybe I am just an idiot, this impromptu poll shows there are some other idiots like me.

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115612.55 in reply to 115612.40
Date: 10/19/2009 10:31:43 AM
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i find it amusing... though i didn't rate it because i don't think it needs to be...

and laughing about it overshadows the thought of rating the post... :)

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115612.56 in reply to 115612.50
Date: 10/19/2009 10:47:28 AM
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Looks like it doesn't work for the vast majority of us.


"Vast majority" clearly overstates the case.

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Date: 10/19/2009 11:31:51 AM
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Looks like it doesn't work for the vast majority of us.


"Vast majority" clearly overstates the case.

True, if you "clearly" have a problem with numbers.

Based off the results of this thread, how would you define a 75% majority? "Slight"?
It would be interesting to have some sort of official poll, because as far as I can tell, it's pretty useless that the BBs continue to recommend one option when the (vast) majority of the users prefer the other one.

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115612.58 in reply to 115612.57
Date: 10/19/2009 12:47:51 PM
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Based off the results of this thread, how would you define a 75% majority?


I do not think that you can make any conclusions from this thread. The people responding in this thread are not necessarily representative of the BB population.

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115612.59 in reply to 115612.58
Date: 10/19/2009 1:27:48 PM
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Based off the results of this thread, how would you define a 75% majority?


I do not think that you can make any conclusions from this thread. The people responding in this thread are not necessarily representative of the BB population.

That's fine, but then you can't make the opposite conlcusion either. And that's why I said that it would be interesting to have an official poll.
But based on just the opinions expressed in the thread, I would say that the majority is in fact "vast". Plus, since I am a regular poster in the Italian forum, and Italy happens to be the second largest community in BB, I can tell you that almost every regular poster in the Italian BB forum has expressed a preference for the long menu.

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Date: 10/19/2009 1:34:58 PM
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But based on just the opinions expressed in the thread, I would say that the majority is in fact "vast".


Well, you can make that conclusion if you wish but I already know one difference between the people who posted here vs the people who didn't. So, it is certainly plausible that their opinions of the long vs short menu are different. And since the people who posted here are in the vast minority, I'm not exactly sure what conclusions you could make from this thread.

Maybe - maybe I would be willing to say that it needs more study. However, I strongly suspect that the BBs have methods to detect how the users are actually using the site. So if there is a study to be done, I'm sure that they will do it.

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115612.62 in reply to 115612.61
Date: 10/19/2009 4:53:26 PM
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On the other hand, I'm not quite sure how any experienced user could prefer the short menu over the long one.


For me, anyways, I've used it so long it's second nature now.

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Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
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115612.63 in reply to 115612.62
Date: 10/22/2009 4:32:38 PM
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Long menu!

Count me as part of the vast majority!

I think I wrote up a vast opinion on the menu issue somewhere in the first thread of comments to the new site. To the BB developers' credit, they heard that many people liked the long menu and made sure to keep it, and to allow this to be saved as a preference so that we don't have to click on the Long menu every time we log in.

And not that I think this will change things, but I agree with the notion that the Long Menu should probably be the default so that new users can see all of the pages they can go to in one shot, and that it really does take an experienced user to navigate the short menu since that who already knows what pages they want to navigate to even though the page link doesn't show up on the short menu. But I respect everyone's opinion on this.

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115612.64 in reply to 115612.63
Date: 10/22/2009 9:06:42 PM
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I prefer the long menu as well. I have tried both but the long menu in my opinion is easier to navigate.

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