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Seems that this feature disappeared. Please bring this back. This feature allows for seeing accident posts or just general posts without navigating to specific areas. Removal of this feature will definitely decrease site usage IMO. 

Wow... just saw they killed this... Not nice MP but I see how it will limit trolling.

Probably lower traffic to the forums on a whole.

This hurts my heart. Plz b a glitch

Nope. "Latest Posts" page and "Recent Posts" removed from home page

And it sounds like the forums might not even stay around.

As a female climber, do I like routes being named "The Girlfriend Route" or "Whores xyz...whatever" No. Do I think removing the best part of this website will help with that ... NO. This is just hiding the things that should instead be a conversation. Bring back the latest post forum !!!!!

All the endless trolling and virulent off-topic diatribes killed the Supertopo forum. That's happening here, as well--something to think about.

Well, there goes my slacker time at work. Think my boss asked MP to do this.

Is MP really hell-bent on becoming yet another massive database with a stagnant community?

Not even a month between the departure of Tradi and the death of the MP Forums.  Correlation == causation. 

Looks like the original announcement thread is already locked.

I would love to see those features come back.

It would be a shame to see the forums go away. Some great resources amidst the snark. 

All the endless trolling and virulent off-topic diatribes killed the Supertopo forum. That's happening here, as well--something to think about.

This 100%. Forums should be killed. Trollz will likely take their vitriol to the route comment sections but maybe a character limit & 1 post per user rule could slow it down a little. 

Yes there are trolls, but the majority of posts are either helpful or funny. Definitely not mean spirited. This is a sad day for MP. Please bring back these features! 90% of my visits to MP started with checking recent posts in that link. 

Someone important got triggered.  

This belongs in Discuss Mountain Project forum, where I have an identical thread that probably no one will read since it is not accessible from New Forum Posts.

Rocrateswrote: Not even a month between the departure of Tradi and the death of the MP Forums.  Correlation = causation. 

FTFY ;)

Tim Stichwrote: This belongs in Discuss Mountain Project forum, where I have an identical thread that probably no one will read since it is not accessible from New Forum Posts.

Can you provide a link? I am not a computer hacker or some kind of genius engineer and I don't know how to navigate to that forum. 

Seriously though, this is dumb. Forums that break things up into umpteen different categories have always been annoying, and it was nice that there was a way around that. So the answer to hurt feelings is to simply limit forum traffic? Why not cease all human interaction, online or in person? I imagine we could all live in peace then.

I think this is a good move overall. Makes people have to search for information in relevant areas, rather than trolling about shit they know nothing about just because it's a popular post. MP should be less of a social network, more like a resource database. As anyone who has watched a forum completely dissolve into chaos would admit, productivity is severely limited when people use these forums to get a laugh or get political.

People who use MP as entertainment will probably be bummed. If you use it as a database for trip reports and beta, it won't matter.  

What about a customized "forum feed" where you can subscribe to subforums and only posts from those show up in your feed?

If you're worried that too many people would subscribe to all, maybe have a limit on the number of subforums you can subscribe to?

There's gotta be some solution in between seeing every thread in one place and  having to click through 52 different subforums.

Even removing regional posts from the "All forums" thread would reduce exposure to 28 subforums.

Andy Eiterwrote: What about a customized "forum feed" where you can subscribe to subforums and only posts from those show up in your feed?

If you're worried that too many people would subscribe to all, maybe have a limit on the number of subforums you can subscribe to?

There's gotta be some solution in between seeing every thread in one place and  having to click through 52 different subforums.

Even removing regional posts from the "All forums" thread would reduce exposure to 28 subforums.

I think it is important to draw enough attention to a topic, which was accomplished by the view most recent. While you get some trolls, you also get the highly experienced commenting on topics they otherwise would not have gone in search of.  

I agree that 52 sub-forums kill the usefulness of the forms.

While we would lose some function, one solution would be to stop using the sub-forums and just post everything into the general.

A Potterwrote: I think this is a good move overall. Makes people have to search for information in relevant areas, rather than trolling about shit they know nothing about just because it's a popular post. MP should be less of a social network, more like a resource database. As anyone who has watched a forum completely dissolve into chaos would admit, productivity is severely limited when people use these forums to get a laugh or get political.

People who use MP as entertainment will probably be bummed. If you use it as a database for trip reports and beta, it won't matter.  

If you use MP for trip reports or beta, having the forums is irrelevant anyways. And I always liked being able to stalk on random forum posts from other states/areas. Makes it feel a lot more like a community then just limiting everyone to their individual areas. 

Leronwrote:

I think it is important to draw enough attention to a topic, which was accomplished by the view most recent. While you get some trolls, you also get the highly experienced commenting on topics they otherwise would not have gone in search of.  

In the described set up, there could be default subforums (e.g., everyone has site update/admin related threads in their feed, so they don’t miss big announcements.
Perhaps have no limit on the General categories (I.e. don’t make people choose between subscribing to some climbing styles and not others), but also move other sports, politics/current events, and maybe the women’s forum out of this category.