Quick links are here!

@Denisevdo Just I like I showed you this afternoon!

@chrishottentot en @Emile
De quick links zijn nu beschikbaar, dus jullie kunnen er mee aan de slag!

Can you combine featured topics and quick links? Or are you supposed to replace your featured topics with quick links?

We did not change the featured topics, they can still be used but will be displayed below the quick links card. It is up to you if you want to replace the featured topics or use them side by side with the quick links. :)

We believe the quick links are a powerful navigation tool that can point your visitors to the right direction (mostly an overview or a link to somewhere outside the community) whereas featured topics are more aimed at highlighting one specific subject.

The feature Quick links (Forum Settings / Homepage / Quick links) doesn't have the option 'open in a new tab'.

The option 'open in a new tab' provides community owners the ability to integrate with other platforms while they can provide members the ability to preserve what’s on the active tab and open a new tab. Hence, this gives a better User Experience.

We respected default URL behaviour for URL's that are setup within the platform (click on a topic, category, username etc.) If a user wants to open a quick-link in a new tab he can do so by 'CTRL/CMD' + Click on a quick link card 🙂

I can relate to the given answer, but it should not be assumed that every community member knows CTRL/CMD' + Click on a quick link card.

The option 'open in a new tab' gives the community manager the opportunity to decide whether he wants it or not.

Correct, assumptions are not a good measurement 😉 Let us investigate this 🙂 To be on the same level: this option should apply to all quick-links, and not individual quick-links right? It would be strange that some quick links open in a new tab and others open in the same tab.

I like the quick links on your community by the way. Good job 😃

Why do you find it strange that some quick-links open in a new tab and others on the same tab? It depends on the content, doesn't it?

Thank you!

We believe the quick links are a powerful navigation tool that can point your visitors to the right direction (mostly an overview or a link to somewhere outside the community) whereas featured topics are more aimed at highlighting one specific subject.

As naviational elements I do think they could be helpful, especially for guiding infrequent users and giving the community manager more choice in designing the community for his/her audience. But IMO the potential is not

Startpage:

• having quick-link navigation plus current startpage for large communities is overwhelming and will create an inconsistent experience for users.
• Therefore, I would suggest to enable for the startpage a choice
• a) either a graphical navigation (as you intend above) or
• b) the current text-oriented startpage
• c) enable both and users can choose in their profile (depending on their maturity)

Subforum:

• for consistency of the navigational experience, quick links need to be enabled for sub-forums as well as quoted several times above
• Within the sub-forums there usually are several sub-topics (identified by tags); quick-linking to these tags can help users navigate to the content they are interested in.

Ideally, when really using a quick-link navigation, the order of the quick-links would be depending on the users' behavior and preferences, e.g. when a user is mainly active in forums a & b but not on c and only a few times in d, the order would be a, b, d, c. The same principle applies to tag-based quick-links.
This personalization would have an immediate benefit for the users as they can navigate directly quickly to the content they are interested in.

Cheers,
Florian