CTF

[kungfustu]

Why is the 3rd most popular category at the bottom of the page? doesn't seem to make sense. 

[Guest]

I've moved this to our Q&A/feedback forum for admin to see and hopefully answer.

Please be aware they are currently very busy with off forum matters and therefore may take a while to reply.

ETA - My take on it is like with many other forums the off topic area usually goes toward the bottom of the forum display. Forums specific to certain things, like this being a migration forum, those migrations issues and sub forums would be displayed at the top. On a footy forum, it would be footy and clubs with off topic near the end of the list. And so on. Off topic areas generally don't get given top billing. 

 

[Cerberus1]

As above

The forum taxonomy isn't decided by popularity, if it was, it could potential change month to month, which wouldn't make much sense. Instead, the forum taxonomy is determined by the purpose of the website.

So if you look at the categories on the front page, they're arranged - MOVING TO AUSTRALIA -> LIFE IN AUSTRALIA - States & Territories - Partner Forums -> MOVING TO THE UK .

CTF, by it's very definition - 'This forum is for all off topic conversations' is off topic, ie, it's not related to the main purpose of the website - Migrating to Australia, living in Australia or moving back to the UK. Members registering on the website / people searching on google etc, tend to find us for one those 3 main reasons above. It doesn't make sense for someone seeking migration information etc to be presented with off topic information when they access the homepage. Hence the order the sub-forums are in.