I was thinking. The main page of the forums is fairly large. I don;t really want to cut down on the forums, but was thinking I could structure them differently.

For example. At present we have music discussion with x amount of forums. I was thinking we could have one forum which you open and would then have all the current one showing on the main page inside.

Basically it would be the same kind of setup as the current country one. One main forum with all sub forums inside.

The reason for this is to make the main page seem less daunting for new users, and a little cleaner.

Ideas and questions welcome.

sounds good

I'm ok with the current form
Maybe you have to put it in as an option in one of the skins.
I think that if you cut down the forums it will look empty

I'll try to think of something good in the coming days

yes I think the board is well structured as it is, forums are clear enough imo

Right now is the best I could think of.

Seriously, I don't understand what you mean, Fly

Each area would have one forum with all curent forums inside. For example Music discussion would show as just one forum on the main page. Once opened it displays all other forums inside that.

Just ideas, as always, its your forum, so you decide what happens to it

could have all the topics on one page, and a series of buttons on the side which works as a sort of 'query' and sorts out the topics once clicked on
e.g trance discussion, electro discussion etc.

guess the only way for it to work is after each time u post a topic u have to select a way to characterise it

edit: dunno if i made sense, erm, buttons that sort the topics?

You mean something like those little (togglecategory) buttons on the right top corners on each category do? Dunno, it could look a bit empty, but cleaner.

I don't actually use main page of the forum much. I usually click on the "View New Posts" link and see all active topic since I was last online.

To be honest, I think the main page is laid out perfectly as is. There is Music, and Non music, each with its own clearly labelled sub sections. Couldnt be better I think.

would be too much clicking....

i already don't see most of the topics because they are in subforums


imo we better merge some subforums because of low activity
or delete some, like the country forums as they are almost dead... looks like they work the same as we had a spam forum because these topics could exactly fit in the general discussion (beside of the topics in other language)


Imo the following things are possible:


To make the forum even smaller it's possible to decrease the statistics at the bottom of the page.
They are movable to an extra page

I did look at the country forums. They haven't gone the way I wanted. I noticed the Holand one is still being used though. Maybe you guys wanted to keep that?

no real activity imo

only 10 'active' topics since 1st october 2007


I'll run a poll to ask how the others think about it

Yeah I had a look. Ok. I will take your comments on board, and look at the forums on friday

it's 2 vs. 2 now....

but maybe it's possible to create a hidden forum so others won't see it

Going to look into your ideas. But seems most people like things the way they are. Maybe i mess with things too much, heh.

imo there has been messed a bit too much in the past....


what about the member charts ?
the last post is from 18th december 2007

The reviews section has to stay separate, otherwise there's not a lot of point having it. I do think that the music discussion and new releases discussion should be joined together though, they tend to be about the same thing anyway.