How Our New Country-Specific Recent Tab Might Affect Your Forum Experience

We just changed the RECENT tab to show country-specific recent discussion threads by default. Previously, we used to show recent discussions irrespective of the location. The issue with that was when someone from the US or UK came to the site and hit RECENT, they would see a lot of discussions from India—which were naturally not relevant to them.

I was wondering if this change affected the interactions for our long-time members. You can still see the old RECENT page by clicking on the WORLD VIEW tab at the top.

Search Bar Changes

Another change is related to the search bar (highlighting the idea of searching first)—but strangely, however hard we try to get people to search first, it just doesn't work. :)

Regards,
Sid

This is a good enhancement/change. However, I think there's a need for some tweaking. When I am viewing the Global View and hit the 'Recent' button, the Country View gets displayed (needing me to again select the Global View) - while it would be preferable that the same view (World or Country) that was being displayed before the Recent button is hit is updated on the screen.

Regards,
TS

It's really great to find that back-office innovations keep happening! I liked the default COUNTRY view, which can be fine-tuned further to CITY view. This is very convenient for the GENERAL user/member, as one would always like to see the more RELEVANT and more familiar topics first. Later, if time permits, one can switch to the WORLD view to keep a tab on things happening around.

Thanks so very much and warm regards.

I agree with you—I didn't notice the various selection options in the Country View until you pointed them out. I had presumed Country View to mean India View.

@Sid - In this context, please clarify if the threads being displayed in World View are the consolidated recent threads from all locations, or would they be an assorted/selective list of threads from various locations/countries.

Regards,
TS

Greetings of the day, I'll go with Mr. Raj Kumar as I also liked the default COUNTRY view. When attempting the threads, reading and answering, and learning, I never consider the location but the topic/title of discussion. Therefore, this never bothered me. I love to involve myself with other country-specific discussions, which actually give me a lot to learn from them and understand their discussions, knowledge, and perspectives on various subjects. We all know that CiteHR is an international community where we discuss topics not only related to domestic issues or our country-specific labor laws but also internationally.

With due respect, I would like to add a suggestion. Is it possible to have a SEARCH option in an individual member's subscribed threads (MENU - MY SUBSCRIBED DISCUSSION)?

At times, while providing a link to some post, it becomes difficult to search the thread when the number of threads increases—probably because the subject is not remembered or the day and date. If we can filter the threads broadly by category (pf, ESIC, absconding, policies, etc.) OR by keywords (more likely), it would be easy to refer to the previous discussion.

Thanks for your valuable comments. On the whole, this setting seems more valid for new users, but perhaps our established members need some flexibility. Here's what we are going to do:

- We'll have a default recent setting that will decide how the RECENT tab at the top will behave. Users can either set the country or world as their default view.
- We'll try to build a search feature for identifying keywords in threads. Ideally, adding the username in quotes "" when using the search bar at the top gets the job done, but perhaps we need an internal search. Possibly Google is not indexing entire discussions.

It'll take time to develop these as they will be queued in our development phases.

Regards,
Sid