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How to find other forums?

6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago

Pattie and I have been discussing the difficulty in finding other garden or plant forums. It used to be that a complete alphabetical list was available If you wanted to read about begonias for instance you could scroll through the list of B's and find it.

Now I the only way I can find begonias is to click on 'Edit' that is above and to the right of my short list of 'Your Topics' that appears on the left column when the Texas Garden Web page is opened. Add it to my 'Your Topics' list and click on it from there. That's a rather cumbersome way of doing it when I just want to look at it once.

Why make it so hard? Am I missing something?

Comments (10)

  • 6 years ago

    I have added almost all of the topics to the my topics list that shows on the left side of the page. Then when I want to go to a specific topic I just find it in my list on the left. I hope that made sense.

    roselee z8b S.W. Texas thanked girlnamedgalez8a
  • 6 years ago

    Hmmm ... I can't see "Featured Topics" ... :-(

  • 6 years ago

    Maybe here, then "See All" in left column?

    https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions

    Or from Houzz.com, "Get Ideas" near upper left, then when the box opens, "Discussions" & "GardenWeb in lower right. Then again Featured Topics on left, and See All at bottom. (this is on a pc)

    By the time this finally works, maybe it'll revert back.


  • 6 years ago

    Do you see "Your Topics" & Edit near the top? It seems that not everyone has the same thing on the left side. If you see that then click on edit and check all of the topics so that they appear in the column on the left.



  • 6 years ago

    Yeah - unfortunately we no longer all see the exact same thing depending upon
    if/how we're logged in, the computer/device we're using, and other
    "fingerprinted" details. I see the "Get Ideas" pull-down link Dan mentioned only while in a forum view (ex. the one showing all Texas Garden threads), but not while within a discussion thread (like this one). From a forum view, I use Dan's approach as described.

    roselee z8b S.W. Texas thanked bostedo: 8a tx-bp-dfw
  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    When I open the Texas Garden Web with the link I have I do see the 'edit' feature at the top of the left hand column showing 'Your Topics', but I don't see 'Get Ideas' or 'Featured Topics' with my link or the link Dan provided. I've clicked all over the place!

    I guess the only way I'm going to have a clickable list of all the topics is to do as girlnamedgalez8a mentions and click them all to 'Your Topics'.

    Thanks to you all for trying to help. Unfortunately, many Houzz users may not realize how many subjects, garden or otherwise, there are.

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    Of course YMMV, but this is how I find the topics (forums) list from the main "Gardening in Texas" forum page. Hovering the cursor over the "Get Ideas" link at the top of the page provides this dropdown:

    Clicking the "Gardenweb" link highlighted in the red oval opens the main Gardenweb page (which is your personal "Your Topics" page if still logged in):
    Clicking the "Show All" link in the left column under "Featured Topics" (may have to scroll down to see it) expands to the full list like this:

    Hope this helps... it's really unfortunate basic navigation has become this obscure.

    roselee z8b S.W. Texas thanked bostedo: 8a tx-bp-dfw
  • 6 years ago

    Bostedo, thank you for the screen shots. Yes, my mileage does vary! But I finally 'snapped' and opened your Houzz "New Comment on .." email on Firefox, rather than my usual (since 2001) IE on AOL where my 'Favorites' are listed.

    On my PC with Windows 10 and using the link within Dan's post I can see the 'Show All' with all the forums listed below it. But if I use any my usual link on Firefox to open Houzz Texas GW the "Show All" isn't there.

    I agree; "it's really unfortunate basic navigation has become this obscure" when it used to be so easy.

  • 6 years ago

    Roselee, thank you for your post asking the question and thanks for Bostedo for your screenshot tutorial. I was wondering what happened to our access to all those other topics.

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