[RFC] Limit the subforums in legend to 1 level.

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[RFC] Limit the subforums in legend to 1 level.

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You might think that this can be effectively controlled by using the "List subforums in legend" and "List subforum in parent-forum’s legend", but those have global effects. For instance: you might want to show the sub-forums in the legend when browsing inside the category parent forum, but not on the index.

In it's current form, it's a bit of an all-or-nothing approach, which can become very cluttered and confusing.
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If you want to try it out yourself, open includes/functions_display.php

Find: $subforums[$parent_id][$forum_id]['display'] = ($row['display_on_index']) ? true : false;

Replace with: $subforums[$parent_id][$forum_id]['display'] = ($row['display_on_index'] && $parent_id == $row['parent_id']) ? true : false;

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Re: [RFC] Limit the subforums in legend to 1 level.

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What is the practice that others have followed? IPB, XenForo, vBulletin, SMF, MyBB etc. Some people may consider it a nice feature to display all the subforums in the legend, so if other vendors offer it, then we shouldn't take it away.

Is this RFC about adding a new option to control the display or to always have the legend display only level 1 subforums?

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Re: [RFC] Limit the subforums in legend to 1 level.

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They either use a drop-down menu (which I always use myself in my styles too), or they only display 1 level.

XenForo: dropdown: http://xenforo.com/community/
IPB: single level: http://community.invisionpower.com/
SMF: single level: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/

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Re: [RFC] Limit the subforums in legend to 1 level.

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I like the multi-level display of sub-forums. And, as you propose, I also think it should be an option forum-by-forum instead of global.
(shouldn't this be in the ideas section of the main phpbb website?)

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Re: [RFC] Limit the subforums in legend to 1 level.

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brunoais wrote:I like the multi-level display of sub-forums. And, as you propose, I also think it should be an option forum-by-forum instead of global.
(shouldn't this be in the ideas section of the main phpbb website?)
It's a request for comment/change, so I thought it would be fine in the RFC section ;).

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Re: [RFC] Limit the subforums in legend to 1 level.

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I personally don't like those dropwdowns at all. And the one at XenForo displays the forum title in the dropdown... why would they do that when the title is already on the left... it's so ugly...

Although I'm mostly fine with displaying only level 1, I believe there would be forum cases where I might like to display all of them.

How about adding another option to control the display per forum?

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Re: [RFC] Limit the subforums in legend to 1 level.

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I like it as is but if it's an ACP *option* then it won't matter.
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Re: [RFC] Limit the subforums in legend to 1 level.

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Why not make it a UCP option and let the user decide what level of nesting he wants to see? The admin should only control important things; the user should control how he views things.

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Re: [RFC] Limit the subforums in legend to 1 level.

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The user should only be allowed to decide what the admin wants the users to decide.
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Re: [RFC] Limit the subforums in legend to 1 level.

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I'm ok with UCP option too.

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