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Loona Jul 23 2008, 02:40 PM Post #1
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The community forums don't seem very friendly. I think you've got too many forums/subforums.
The way I see it is you should start off small, keep things broad, and then if things get too hectic, if there are a lot of users making a lot of community topics, then you should start getting specific.

Here's what I mean:
You've got 4 forums...
  • Introductions
  • General Chat
  • Games
  • In The News
    ›› Entertainment
    ›› Music
    ›› Gaming
    ›› Science, Technology , Politcs, and History


Games, could easily be a subforum to General Chat. Or even Introductions could be a subforum, though it may serve better as a forum.
My main concern though is the In The News forum. It seems like wasteful space, since once you enter the forum, it only serves as a 'lobby' for the four subforums. There is no actual content in that forum and this makes it very annoying to access topics. To me, Music is just a part of Entertainment and need not be separated. Games is technically entertainment too, but if you think there will be a large interest in games, it could potentially serve well as a separate subforum.

I think when you start dividing everything up so much, you start taking away from the activity in other forums (it starts looking like there isn't a lot of activity on the board). Everything in Entertainment (including music, gaming, movies, etc.) could be a part of General Chat for two reasons:
a) If you already have a forum for entertainment, there's not much left to talk about in General Chat, and
b) I wouldn't really consider them items 'in the news.' In the News seems better summed up by Science, Technology, Politics, and History only. General Chat seems better summed by Entertainment and other casual discussion.

Just my 2 cents.
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Jesus Jul 23 2008, 02:43 PM Post #2
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Yea I like your idea O-o I mean some things are too clustered in a certain sub forum. Like introductions could go right in with general chat maybe put the member codes in a sub forum with the Premium and what not :P
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mastermazaki Jul 23 2008, 05:13 PM Post #3
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I personally think its quite organised, I dont get lost and its simple compared to most forums ive seen.
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Jesus Jul 23 2008, 05:43 PM Post #4
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Well I think its organized but there still could be some fixes here and there just to make it easier to navigate :P
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HolySavior Jul 23 2008, 06:29 PM Post #5
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Games can be a subforum under general chat If everyone wants.

Introductions will stay its own subforum because intros are awesome!

as for the " In the News" we will look into it :P
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Jesus Jul 23 2008, 06:31 PM Post #6
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Yeah that would be pretty good :P Could you possibly throw in Movies into general chat as well?
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HolySavior Jul 23 2008, 06:38 PM Post #7
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movies would fall under entertainment
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Jesus Jul 23 2008, 06:42 PM Post #8
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Oh, then I guess its fine where it is then :P Yea then I guess just moving the category games into general chat would be fine. But wouldn't that kinda block out some of the more serious general chat threads with silly count games and what not?
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HolySavior Jul 23 2008, 06:48 PM Post #9
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games would be a subforum in general chat
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Jesus Jul 23 2008, 06:53 PM Post #10
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Well what I meant was wouldn't a game such as guess the next poster since everyone plays it, sometimes appear over another more serious thread in general chat?
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