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So I kinda like the minimalism of the home page at the moment.
Got to add the search box to the header, but aside from that I'm liking it.
Things I like:
I really never saw the point in knowing the last post per forum... I just care about whether there are new posts... so blue links are new, grey are old.
I never saw the point of knowing that there were X thousands threads or posts... that's just penis size stuff. As long as someone new can gauge that the forum is busy and it's worth participating (stats at the bottom of the page) then we don't need to go into useless details all over the place.
This one page looks great on a mobile and a small monitor. It's perhaps too sparse on large monitors. Try it on your mobile, let me know what you think.
That one page has no JavaScript (unless you're logging in, in which case it has the MD5 script to hash your password), only 1 CSS file, and only 1 image file. I'm currently seeing the whole page delivered and rendered in less than 120 milliseconds, and that's with the no-cache headers turned on.
It's HTML5 baby! Breadcrumbs are marked up, links to people are marked up. One day browsers will know what to do with this.
Top nav is free of anything except the stuff that was used the most.
Footer nav provides links to pretty much everything on every page.
Things I don't yet like:
It feels a little too sparse
I've strayed from BDW's design to make the nav work across mobile, tablet and desktops
The font stack isn't yet sorted.