Technical Feedback: Improve Post Discovery & Profile Navigation on Local Guides Connect

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Hello Local Guides Team and Community,

I would like to share a technical usability feedback regarding post discovery and profile navigation on the Local Guides Connect Forum, especially for contributors who have written a large number of posts.

Many active contributors, including myself, have 100+ posts on their profiles. At present, when we need to find an older post for reference or research, we are required to scroll extensively, which becomes extremely difficult and time-consuming.

Recently, while writing this post: Index of Bangladesh Local Guides , I needed to revisit several of my older posts to gather accurate information. However, navigating through my entire post history by continuous scrolling felt very challenging and inefficient.

Additionally, over time, several official and personal posts appear to have disappeared during forum updates. Notably, some official Guiding Star posts from 2020 and 2021 are no longer easily accessible, which is concerning from a documentation and community history perspective.

Suggested Improvement (Feature Request)

To improve usability and accessibility, I would like to suggest the following enhancement:

  • Introduce page-based navigation for user profiles

  • Each page could display 10–20 posts per section

  • Posts could be shown in a Grid View layout

    • 4 posts per row

    • Each post showing cover image + title

  • A total of 40 posts per page

  • Include numbered page buttons (Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, etc.)

This would allow contributors to quickly jump between pages and locate their required posts without endless scrolling.

For better understanding, I have also attached a sample image/mockup illustrating this idea.

Why This Matters

  • Saves time for active contributors

  • Improves content discoverability

  • Helps preserve and access important historical & official posts

  • Enhances overall forum usability and contributor experience

I hope other Local Guides will share their thoughts and feedback on this idea as well.

@Kristen_NYC , @Julie_A , @AngieYC

I sincerely hope you can discuss this suggestion with the technical team and consider it for future improvements.

Thank you for your time and continued support of the Local Guides community

Community guidelines > The Local Guides Connect community

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I’m also agree on the above topic. That would be a great feature request.

It would be very helpful if we could add pagination and a search bar to every activity tab (e.g., All, Topics, and Replies), @Kristen_NYC.

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While writing 100 celebrate with me post, I also had told scroll down from Day 1 to gather information or link of previous posts.

My suggestion is : even if we add page numbers, how we gonna know which page the post would be because I seen some previous posts came up top of some recents posts too.

To avoid this : i recommend lgs/community to have a index posts where it’s easy to find through the search.

Rather than scrolling down, I do find through search, if I know the exact keyword that used in the title or the content of the post. @MahabubMunna

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I do agree the current search options to find our old topics is frustratingly and unnecessarily difficult. So much so that I have developed and use an elaborate set of bookmark folders to compensate for this to be able to quickly reference older posts of mine.

I think a much easier fix would be to change the strange current sort order applied after opening our Connect profile page and then tapping Activity tab and selecting to see Topics only.

If this list was sorted by date of creation (nand only show topics created by me with latest topics at the top then it would be a lot easier to find our recent topics.

@MahabubMunna your proposal of a grid based 4 collum setup will likely not work well on tiny mobile screens.

Removing the guiding star post was a mistake in my opinion although they were displayed way too prominently in the old design. Have you found a workaround to find them now?

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@MortenCopenhagen Thanks for Your Feedback .

Personally, I maintain an Excel file where I store links to all important announcements and other posts. I have noticed that during the Connect forum update in 2018, many older posts were removed, and again during this year’s update, a large number of previous posts can no longer be found.

Apart from the Guiding Star posts, back in 2016—when Bangladesh Local Guides became the first to successfully complete 50 meetups—a special post was published on behalf of the community from the account of the then Community Manager, Jesi. That post is no longer available. Similarly, there was an announcement post regarding a virtual meetup published in 2020 from TraciC’s account, which is also no longer accessible.

Several of our previously completed meetup recap posts are in the same situation. As an example, I am sharing one link here:
https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t/boishakhi-meet-up/34091/1#M13187

Secondly, mobile users have the option to switch from Grid View to List View with a single click for better readability. However, there is an issue: if a post from 3–4 years ago is edited, it appears at the top of the recent list. I believe such posts do not need to be shown as recent.

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@Rahul001 , thank you for your comment. I would like to clarify that since 2016, this forum has undergone changes four times. During these transitions, many previous tags and features were removed. For example, there used to be an Idea Sharing section, a dedicated section for former Maker Regional Leads, Street View , separate sections for Beta Testers, individual sections for each Summit/ Connect Live , and Summit Alumni content—many of which did not have distinct or consistent tagging.

With the introduction of Connect 3.0, those sections were discontinued. As a result, many of those posts have either been deleted or are now very difficult to find, especially since the exact titles used at the time are no longer remembered.

I would like to invite you to review my previously written Forum Archive Series, which may provide better context and insight.
Local Guides Program – Archive Series

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Hello dear friend @MahabubMunna
The present system is surely not user-friendly.
The suggestion by our @MortenCopenhagen also is really good.
Hope Connect Team will do the needful.
Regards
:handshake::heart_with_ribbon::+1:

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great work I completely agree with your analysis of the subject and sharing of suggestions. Hope Connect Team will do the needful.

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This issue also comes to my mind sometimes when I search for a post on my profile. Finally, @MahabubMunna brother, you posted about it in detail, thank you very much brother. :sparkles::sparkles:

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I also agree with @MahabubMunna Bhai. It takes a lot of scrolling to find your own post. The current format is a bit like a Google Doc file, the post with the last comment is at the top of the page.

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It would be very helpful for us, so i am agree @MahabubMunna vi

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