@TheTrumpernator wrote:
How buried can it be in a sub-menu?
Why not offer the chance to post something on the header page once logged in and then ask us to choose which section of the board to post it under?
The Forum is built the way it is for a handful of reasons.
The first is organization. If you were to post everything on a main page, or a "Lobby," nobody would be able to find anything, so the usefulness of the forum would be zero.
The second is to encourage you to search for your question prior to posting. If everyone were allowed to write their question before posting, there would be an unfathomable amount of duplicate or similar posts that, again, the Community would cease to be useful.
Bear in mind, we (Canon USA) doesn't actually make the software that the Community is hosted on - it's created by an industry leader. This is a "best practices" method, to help things from becoming overwhelming to our users, and those of us who run things on the backend - otherwise, we'd have to manually move all of the messages around to ensure they go where they belong. That's not efficient, or free.
I hope this helps!
