Dragonfoxy wrote:
I do agree that the forum can use some polishing up and the overview could be a bit better than it is now but I think it is also a part of the questionnaire that has been set up here. That is set up for people to tell us where to improve and what we should maintain to stay at top or at least grow towards it. So it might be better to let the members speak before we start changing anything.
Another bad thing with changing forums might be the google spider recognition. If we are changing a lot, several google results might end up in old links until it has been updated. That might be something else we have to look into. Sure, a quote from that questionnaire thread:
sixdemonbag wrote:
There may also be too many forum categories for a community this size.
Its not about polishing from my perspective - its about basic forum structure.
The content is all great - its just spread too thinly across too many forums.
Its basic forum management stuff - only create sub forums when there is a genuine need. At the moment we are
severely choking the forums growth.
WRT engine spiders, thats not a concern at all - any forum restructure would not change the thread links themselves, which is what the spiders crawl over.
Nothing would be changed before soliciting input on this specific subject - thats what this thread is for.
But what ive suggeste dis really just basic forum management 101. I dont know how to emphasise the importance of it any more.
Of course I write all this with the assumption that its a goal to have the forums popular and used regularly as a true community, as opposed to just a place where people visit once every two or three weeks and dont contribute much if anything in terms of discussion.
Think about what it means in terms of ease of use, appearance, perception etc......its nothing revolutionary being proposed - just simple common sense.
