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Homepage redesign & forum restructuring: Community input needed

@CC_Jon and I are working on redesigning the forum homepage and, with it, restructuring the existing categories. Here’s what we want to achieve: help our users better digest the information we present highlight key areas of interest (the boxes at the top; we currently have 4, but we may end up with more) update the look & feel to be more modern and resemble more of a website (and less of a traditional forum) Jon worked on creating a draft theme that I can play around with. It’s here: College Confidential Forums - Admissions Discussions and Threads ** ** Please note that 1) you should log in to see the changed and 2) the the end result will match the colors and fonts of the existing theme (as what you see on staging looks slightly different). Here’s what I’ve been discussing of doing as of now: make the search feature more prominent on the site; I will also hopefully work on improving the functionality for when we launch simplify the homepage by removing the entire “Colleges & Un…