Have you got 15 minutes to spare?

So for something like the general forum that has 400 posts per day in over 80 threads, you just use the home page and the view of just the last post to inform you what's happening. And you don't use the new posts, and you don't use the subscribed threads, and you don't go into the forum itself.

I can see why losing it would therefore annoy you, but the click-through heatmaps and stats I have show that less than 1% of people navigate using that method. My assumption was that this navigation only occurred when people were pouncing on a single active thread (which subscribed threads would show if accessing it was easier), rather than as a navigation method for the forum as a whole.

The most significant way of navigating appears to be using the new posts button, closely followed by people going in to each forum one at a time (or perhaps just going in to one forum because they're not interested in anything else - polo, mechanics and classifieds I'm looking at you).

I'll definitely evaluate the impact to the user experience of the new design once it's finished, and I'll take onboard what you're saying now. But I really don't want the most vocal minority being such an influence that I make compromises too early and end up implementing something that across the board is a poor experience.

I've am testing the new design on various form factors, and so far it is dreamy for mobile and tablets and lacking on desktops (Android, iPhone, iPad all look fantastic in portrait - landscape will come later). I will therefore adjust the experience for desktops, but in what way I'll determine after I've done the base design that works everywhere.

As per yesterday: Only the home page is almost done, though I did a chunk of work around the forum listings so they aren't looking terrible. Thread pages look absolutely appalling and those will be worked on in a few days time.