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Lets have only ONE forum.

One Forum to rule them all, One Forum to find them, One Forum to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

My Precious...

ukimalefu wrote:

Lets have only ONE forum.

One Forum to rule them all, One Forum to find them, One Forum to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

My Precious...

OMG- I knew Steve was a control freak, but I didn't think he was Sauron, gollum, gollum. Ach, sss!...

(And even under the One, there were 7 for the Dwarves, 9 for men...)

frankly wrote:

Bat wrote:

ScifiterX wrote:

I would love to see a counter-argument to this point. I suspect that I'd find it entertaining.

OK, for your amusement:

I open a tab on 'Show new posts since last visit,' it shows them including what Forum they're in- even MT. :shudder: Problem solved?

I do believe that mmreet2001 knew that.

The "show new posts since last visit" is more of a band-aid than a solution.  I shouldn't have to scroll through a list of all the new threads to find the few I might be interested in.  The whole point of this forum was to give feedback on what the users thought of the forums and how they were run, set up, etc.  It seems that when we do, the mods/admins just tell us we are stupid and things don't change.  The forum is dying.  That is a fact.  We are offering suggestions on how to revive it or at least stem the tide, and once again, are being ignored.

Having several possibly overlapping forums that are getting little traffic makes no sense.  It just clutters up the forum list and makes it harder to see what you want to see.  Several of us in this thread have offered solid arguments as to why the board could be better with fewer subdivisions.  I have yet to see a mod/admin give a solid, reasonable argument for the long list we currently have.  Its just "well use the Show new posts since last visit" or "well, just ignore what you don't want to see".  How many more regular posters must you lose before you get the point?  The people using the forums should have some say in how its laid out, seeing as they are the ones that are using them, dontcha think? 

Farmerkev wrote:

Orion wrote:

frankly wrote:

I do believe that mmreet2001 knew that.

The "show new posts since last visit" is more of a band-aid than a solution.  I shouldn't have to scroll through a list of all the new threads to find the few I might be interested in.  The whole point of this forum was to give feedback on what the users thought of the forums and how they were run, set up, etc.  It seems that when we do, the mods/admins just tell us we are stupid and things don't change.  The forum is dying.  That is a fact.  We are offering suggestions on how to revive it or at least stem the tide, and once again, are being ignored.

Having several possibly overlapping forums that are getting little traffic makes no sense.  It just clutters up the forum list and makes it harder to see what you want to see.  Several of us in this thread have offered solid arguments as to why the board could be better with fewer subdivisions.  I have yet to see a mod/admin give a solid, reasonable argument for the long list we currently have.  Its just "well use the Show new posts since last visit" or "well, just ignore what you don't want to see".  How many more regular posters must you lose before you get the point?  The people using the forums should have some say in how its laid out, seeing as they are the ones that are using them, dontcha think? 

You've all brought up some excellent points and you aren't being ignored.

Thank you.    That's nice to know, even though it doesn't feel like it some times.

And I guess I shouldn't be bitching so much at the mods/admins as much as the "Powers that Be".  From what I gather, they are the final say on things...? 

Last edited by Orion (2009-01-23 10:49 pm)

Farmerkev wrote:

Orion wrote:

frankly wrote:

I do believe that mmreet2001 knew that.

The "show new posts since last visit" is more of a band-aid than a solution.  I shouldn't have to scroll through a list of all the new threads to find the few I might be interested in.  The whole point of this forum was to give feedback on what the users thought of the forums and how they were run, set up, etc.  It seems that when we do, the mods/admins just tell us we are stupid and things don't change.  The forum is dying.  That is a fact.  We are offering suggestions on how to revive it or at least stem the tide, and once again, are being ignored.

Having several possibly overlapping forums that are getting little traffic makes no sense.  It just clutters up the forum list and makes it harder to see what you want to see.  Several of us in this thread have offered solid arguments as to why the board could be better with fewer subdivisions.  I have yet to see a mod/admin give a solid, reasonable argument for the long list we currently have.  Its just "well use the Show new posts since last visit" or "well, just ignore what you don't want to see".  How many more regular posters must you lose before you get the point?  The people using the forums should have some say in how its laid out, seeing as they are the ones that are using them, dontcha think? 

You've all brought up some excellent points and you aren't being ignored.

Thanks for saying that.

frankly wrote:

So, if my post is about a MacBook Pro does it always go in On-The-Go or do I post it in Tech News if it has some news in it or do I post it in Everday Tech if I have a question about it? I mean seriously, WTF is the point of those divisions?

or does it go in Networking if you are having airport issues

In Tech News of it's Mac Pro News
On the Go it's General discussion or Help

I could be wrong about this because right now the primary focus of the discussion is how to best handle the Clan forums, however I would say handle home airport issues like a regular tech issue for the time being and post in On the Go or Everyday Tech depending on what sort of system you use.

So every tech should only be about desktops what goes into networking.

ScifiterX wrote:

Like I said the first focus is find the best solution in Clan Mac|Life section (something really has needed to be done down there for a while). After we iron out the details (it hopefully shouldn't take much longer) for that we be working on the details of part or all of Digital|Life as it obviously needs work too.

mrreet2001 like I said home networking in Everyday Tech or On the Go and Pro & semi-pro networking in Networking & Servers.

"Home networking" can get pretty complicated.

Don't I know it, dv, but I'd imagine it could get much harder when you have to deal with more than a handful (or two) of devices, an intranet, and/or some combination there of on top of the standard issues.

ScifiterX wrote:

frankly wrote:

ScifiterX wrote:

mrreet2001 like I said home networking in Everyday Tech or On the Go and Pro & semi-pro networking in Networking & Servers.

And if you are networking desktop and MacBooks together? Do we have to open a rift in the space/time continuum?

Were hoping to keep ST warping to a minimum until we go the best possible solution. However, if we scream reactor breach you might want to duck and cover.

I think I'm just going to stay behind the containment field. The ZPM is at full capacity, isn't it?

Bat, it's true that I've never been a [MA] clan member, and although I've made four posts in Gaming that's obviously not very active. So, yes, discussion of the clan forums is academic to me. I am a minimalist, and what I see is a very large category that gets very low traffic. Part of me also thinks it would be "neat and tidy" to have the gaming forum and the Clan forum(s) next to each other.

It's true that with them at the bottom they aren't that difficult to ignore, but they still add clutter. If the admins would rather make all the [MA] forums other than [MA] General invisible (to non-clan members) rather than merging all [MA] into one forum, that would be fine by me.

Macskeeball wrote:

If the admins would rather make all the [MA] forums other than [MA] General invisible (to non-clan members) rather than merging all [MA] into one forum, that would be fine by me.

That'd be fine by me too.