discuss My Thoughts on NamePros User Experience

[IrfanHabib]

I feel NamePros is a bit confusing to use. When I log in, I’m not sure where to start or where people are actually gathering.

There are too many sections and sub-sections, which makes it difficult to navigate.
And I think I’m not alone in feeling this way. It’s nearly impossible to visit every section daily.

Sometimes, a 20-year-old post gets a random comment, and suddenly it appears as a new update.
I think that’s not very relevant in 2025.

When I want to ask a question, I have to scroll through countless confusing categories.
And often I end up posting in a somewhat unrelated section.

This is my news feed.
The news feed also feels outdated.
I don’t want to see every single reply to every post.
It’s 2025, not the 90s.


I’d love to see a more modern feed, something like X (Twitter) or Facebook’s timeline, where people can post updates, share ideas, and interact more naturally

This is just my personal experience and opinion.

How do you feel when navigating NamePros?
What changes or improvements would you like to see here?


Update:
And this is happened

 

[AEProgram]

For people that are not twitter / x users, that platform is very confusing. The structure of NP is a popular structure for forums from the early days of the web and caters to a different conversation model than the feed structure, both have a use. The feed structure gets hard to follow especially when people reply to a specific comment. It was never meant to do what the popular forum software does.

The issue about old posts being bumped I agree with. I think when a post is older than a year, in the comment box there should be an alert that the initial thread was posted on such and such date.

I also agree with that it can be overwhelming all the different sections. I think every user at one point thought to themselves, why not combine these sections. However, the forum has this already as an option but I don't know how many users browse that way. For example, If you want to keep up with everything on the forum, you can visit https://www.namepros.com/recent-posts/ and it shows you all posts. If you do that, you can ignore each separate section.

If that's too much content, you can select within each section the forum that shows you all posts for that section. For example, https://www.namepros.com/marketplace/buy-domains/ shows all domains for sale and you can go to a specific type of name or sale from there (make offer, top domains, liquid etc). Same with discussion sections.

I think we all have different formats we like. Even on news sites, ever notice how some layouts seem so messy to you but others think its ok? Same with user and admin dashboards. Some are clean and organized according to me while others think the same dashboard is too busy.

I agree with you that when it comes time to post a question it takes searching to see in what section to post because some are similar.

 

[alop]

Oh man im the best thanks iyrafan

 

[alop]

at the same time I want you to know dont follow me im just a what what

 

[AnX]

Never understood why forums allow bumping of ancient threads when everyone hates it, including often the admins/mods. Must be some ad view/SEO thing.

If threads that didn't get a reply for 'X' number of days (99.9% of threads) were archived as static html you could run a forum off a Tamagotchi.

 

[Hypersot]

Never understood why forums allow bumping of ancient threads when everyone hates it, ...

Not everyone hates it.

I prefer to necro an old thread that has all the related information in how it evolved through time than get a new thread out of nowhere with no prior info hoping that someone might see it and answer it.

For the same reason, anyone that needs an answer to a specific, existing, topic will alert all participants giving a much higher chance to get an answer.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

When I log in, I’m not sure where to start or where people are actually gathering.

Any suggestions on how we could improve this?

Forums do tend to be overwhelming at first, but forums haven't really figured out a great way to improve that yet.

There are too many sections and sub-sections, which makes it difficult to navigate.

That's why we created The Pulse, Hottest summaries, and Favorite summaries:

Sometimes, a 20-year-old post gets a random comment, and suddenly it appears as a new update.
I think that’s not very relevant in 2025.

Ideally, it is relevant if someone is deciding to post a new comment in old threads.

Fortunately, old threads are not eligible for any of our summaries (e.g., "Favorites this week").

Within "Discover," old threads will never show under any of these sub-sections:

1. Threads
2. Discussions
3. Popular
4. Favorites
5. Views
6. Polls
7. Etc.

In other words, they'll only show under "Posts."

When I want to ask a question, I have to scroll through countless confusing categories.
And often I end up posting in a somewhat unrelated section.

Agreed. We have plans to make a simple post button that posts in an uncategorized section that moderators and VIPs can then help to categorize properly. That'll make it a lot easier to post without worrying about where.

Are you using the "Post thread..." button? It's a little more convenient:

This is my news feed.
The news feed also feels outdated.
I don’t want to see every single reply to every post.
It’s 2025, not the 90s.

Absolutely agree. Forum software hasn't caught up with the "For you" of News feeds today.

Please help us with additional suggestions.

 

[AnX]

Not everyone hates it.

Well yeah, I imagine people who do it don't have much of a problem with it.

I prefer to necro an old thread that has all the related information in how it evolved through time than get a new thread out of nowhere with no prior info hoping that someone might see it and answer it.

Do you make it clear you're resurrecting a dead thread so people who don't want to unwittingly (re-)read or reply to ancient discussions don't waste their time?

Most necroposters don't care, and that's one reason why it's hated by so many people.

Edit: I now suddenly need "moderator approval" because of a post about bumping old threads (or suggesting it's about ad views/SEO)? WTF

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Edit: I now suddenly need "moderator approval" because of a post about bumping old threads (or suggesting it's about ad views/SEO)? WTF

You triggered our automated spam prevention by posting "necropost."

All posts that trigger that system will require review before they're posted.

Nothing to do with this thread or anything else.

 

[Future Sensors]

Is necropost trending again?

 

[URL Stream]

I have another issue with old threads — the “15-year member” badge may look impressive now, but when they originally wrote the post, they were still pretty green and not exactly saying anything newsworthy.

Reader beware.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Is necropost trending again?

I believe "VIP" members are exempt from that spam trigger.

 

[alop]

Its great to come back to my roots so when you click new posts arrows ...USA political thread dont show up

 

[alop]

Like what the helll can you added back into > >

 

[Simon SE]

It's a nice forum to use imo. One of the better ones.

 

[Maxxo]

100% agree. But they are probably too invested in legacy seo, backlinks, etc which probably generate a ton of traffic, hence revenue. There are great alternative platforms that would be more effective for efficient group interaction and messaging. Using a forum software to things for which it was not really designed. But whatever, to each their own.