We had a little chat in the mods forum about merging some forums together due to the fact that these days the forum is not busy enough to warrant lots (mostly empty forums). Might work better if we have a few busy ones.
We welcome your comments.
Which ones merged where?
Can you actually merge forums with this software?
Sounds like a good idea to me - fewer busier threads might be just what we need.
sounds like a good idea to me, if the place seems to have more life it might attract more new members.
I was actually going to suggest to Nige to get rid of Trader feedback, now your talking about merging thats a great idea.
You could get rid of Waffle and have an NDA thread stickied in GD for old times sake :P
Get rid of Humor and Jokes, Cycling, Photography and food, all that can be discussed in GD.
We could get rid of the Support section :P
technical could be merged into just Hardware forum & Software forum.
Games & Consoles could be merged with entertainment.. TBH I only use the posts since last visit button,
so they can all me merged into 1 forum for what I care.
A lot of the lifestyle forums could be merged - keep SC separate I guess but you might as well merge waffle with GD
Id be tempted to also merge entertainment with GD and maybe designate GD the place for discussing televised sport - world cup etc.. too...
food and drink, photography, cycling, and the hobbies bit of sports and hobbies could all come under a general hobbies and interests forum...
You could basically have:
General Discussion - (old GD + waffle + would have threads about latest films, world cup, some TV prog on last night etc...)
Speakers Corner - as before
Hobbies and interests - (food, photography, cycling (could also be re-merged with cars and bikes), working out/running/sport (as in talking about sport you compete in as a hobby rather than watch on TV) and any other interests...)
Games and consoles (could fall under hobbies and interests but seems popular enough)
Cars and Motorbikes - seems popular enough as it is
Quote from: Eggtasticotechnical could be merged into just Hardware forum & Software forum.
^^^ this
I like Daves suggestions
Daves suggestions, agreeing that Games and Cars should be separate because they are both busy enough to have their own forums.
Quote from: BaconDaves suggestions, agreeing that Games and Cars should be separate because they are both busy enough to have their own forums.
agreed 8-)
yeah
Personally, although Im still slightly opposed to the changes, I would merge:
Waffle + GD + Food = General Discussion
Entertainment + Games & Consoles = Entertainment
Phtoography + Cycling + Sports & Hobbies = Sports & Hobbies
Hardware + Software + Networking + Development = General Computing & Programming
Trader Feedback would be ideal as a subforum but could be merged with FS&W
Quote from: Clockd 0NePersonally, although Im still slightly opposed to the changes, I would merge:
Waffle + GD + Food = General Discussion
Entertainment + Games & Consoles = Entertainment
Phtoography + Cycling + Sports & Hobbies = Sports & Hobbies
Hardware + Software + Networking + Development = General Computing & Programming
Trader Feedback would be ideal as a subforum but could be merged with FS&W
Trader feedback is pants, no one really uses it, cus when stuff does come up for sale which is not that often, we all tend to trust each other now anyway :P
PS Games and Consoles is just as busy as Cars and Motorbikes as Entertainment so they should be separate :D
Your already consdensing some of the emptier ones, do that for now and see how it goes.
I hadnt quite got around to figuring out which forums Id merge exactly, but reading Daves suggestions I reckon thats about what Id do too.
Waffle is no more.
Thank Sam for new improved General Discussion
Can I still trade through my shoppes in this new arrangement?
Whatever you want Pete
Surprising how disorientating it is first time coming here after the change - made my eyes go a bit funny for a minute.
Shouldnt photography merge with hobbies?
i like it much cleaner and simpler.
Not for those who only use "Recent Topics" All the boxes are now odd sizes :P
... Can you change the column width on this view?
... Also if you are playing with code, how about flash support? :D
I dont currently have FTP access to edit that but will look into it. Ill see about flash embedding support now.
Obviously when I said flash, I meant YouTube! but I expect you realised that!
Also this has the info ;)
http://jforum.net/posts/list/4269.page#17553
"General discussion, waffle and humor"
needs re-naming (and spell checking tut tut tut - its has to be bad when even I can spot it!)
its too long now so each topic on the recent topics screen takes up 3 lines instead of 3 !
:p
Beat you to it ;) and I assume you mean 4 tut tut :P
oops, dont know how i missed the half dozen posts above !
(http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/4203/idontlikeit.jpg)
Ill have to get used to it.
Quote from: knighty"General discussion, waffle and humor"
needs re-naming (and spell checking tut tut tut - its has to be bad when even I can spot it!)
its too long now so each topic on the recent topics screen takes up 3 lines instead of 3 !
:p
Thats because i assume the forum language pack seems to be US dictionary based and not UK :P
PS Why cant we just call it General Discussion, i think people get the idea :P
Edit PPS You nerfed Gaming! Im shocked!
Quote from: BaconThats because i assume the forum language pack seems to be US dictionary based and not UK :P
PS Why cant we just call it General Discussion, i think people get the idea :P
Edit PPS You nerfed Gaming! Im shocked!
screwed if I know, all I do know is my spell checker underlined it, without that Id spell it with a 7 in the middle
I didnt do the name changes hence the Americanisms, Ill look at it more tomorrow though!
Also,
QuoteMovies, Games, Music and more
AV equipment through to ZZ Top. If you want to rant about Britney and Blu-Ray post in here.
Whats wrong with that? :P
My bad. You can change it back.
Ok I fixed it :)
The board categories seem to have quite random capitalisation, "General discussion", "Speakers Corner", "Computing and internet"?
Also, some use & while others have the full and...
[/grammar nazi]
better ? :)
much easier to understand!
I vote that "Movies, Games, Music and more" be renamed as "Movies, Games and Videos" so we can all pretend its Saturday lunchtime.
Quote from: GoblinI vote that "Movies, Games, Music and more" be renamed as "Movies, Games and Videos" so we can all pretend its Saturday lunchtime.
I remember that. :nana:
But I think it should just be renamed to just Entertainment.