[Marc]

Hi everyone

You may have noticed something different about the RAC Community Forum.🙂

We’ve had a minor refresh to make it easier to navigate around, easier to promote popular posts at the top of the page, to improve overall accessibility, and to make the mobile view better.

The changes which have gone live today include:

• Making the search bar more prominent, to encourage people to use search before posting, as their question may already have been answered here.
• A more prominent welcome message on the homepage
• Reducing the number of sections. This is so that there’s less complexity and clicking or tapping for people to find what they’re looking for.
• Removing the two navigation rows at the top of the forum - this is to make it less cluttered (especially on mobile) and fix a common issue whereby a user taps or clicks an item in the navigation bar and is suddenly taken away from the forum, to a new website.
• A new carousel of promoted community threads and posts at the top of the homepage, just below the search bar. This will be used to ‘pin’ urgent posts at the very top, as well as to celebrate the best of the community!
• Links are now coloured orange so it’s clearer and also provides better accessibility for those using screen readers.

This work is to address some of the basic requirements to make the RAC Community Forum better. But there’ll be more features added over the coming months and years.

If you spot any bugs related to today’s refresh please do share it, and we’ll add it here.👍