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justine wrote:

I thought that was what Readers was for.

Two differences: 1) I want to separate discussion of article in the mag from articles on the site, and B) I want to have a place in the Forums that exposes Forum folks to what's new on the home page of the site.

A good bold title such as Editor's Announcement might suffice.

Sounds good. Actually I recently started checking the main page again and have found some nice articles at times. Although a lot of it quickly gets posted in stuff like Circuit Board/etc, I wouldn't mind trying out this approach. Might clean up some of the clutter elsewhere.

I'd rather see some of the issues with the board fixed before adding anymore forums.

justine wrote:

I'd rather see some of the issues with the board fixed before adding anymore forums.

Indeed. Get some stuff working first and you can add anything you like without any real issue.

ScifiterX wrote:

justine wrote:

I'd rather see some of the issues with the board fixed before adding anymore forums.

Indeed. Get some stuff working first and you can add anything you like without any real issue.

I like the idea of an articles forum; I stopped going to the main page several years ago when it wasn't being updated very often, and now only go there accidently when I hit the "home" link. If there was an interesting article posted here to link to, I might be inclined to go there and browse around.

My first thought when I read the the title though, was fix some issues like titles showing up in tabs. I open my email alerts in multiples, and I hate getting dropped into the middle of a thread and having to scroll up or down to find the thread title so I know which one I'm in. All of the other boards I frequent are run by volunteers with varying degrees of expertise, but none of them are beleaguered by this issue.

iPod forum!

Rik wrote:

justine wrote:

I thought that was what Readers was for.

Two differences: 1) I want to separate discussion of article in the mag from articles on the site, and B) I want to have a place in the Forums that exposes Forum folks to what's new on the home page of the site.

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home page?
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justG wrote:

Rik wrote:

1) I want to separate discussion of article in the mag from articles on the site

Why? Why not have one place for the discussion of all articles, online or in print? Instead of creating a new thread for every article that's published, which could lead to a forum full of empty threads, you might consider just having posting guidelines for that particular forum that are more rigourous than for others. In the latter case, you'd just edit threads that don't have the story name as their subject.

Research consistently shows that mag readers and site visitors are two different groups.  Yeah, there's some overlap, but one heck of a lot less than you might imagine.

Good warning about the danger of a "Land of Empty Threads," though -- let me talk to some of the folks at our other properties, and see what their experiences have been.

NAG wrote:

Yeah, would be nice to have a few of the weird bugs with this theme fixed.

Just an FYI: I can add forums and threads, but I can't bug-fix when it comes to the Forum architecture's soft underbelly -- I'm afraid that's locked up tight in the bowels of our Internet Operations group, and I'm having a helluva time trying to pry them free to work on anything.  That said, a nice, succinct, prioritized list of megabugs would be v.helpful.

And now i see your other post. Still, the other stuff should be priority, no matter who does the fixing.

If you want to create another forum, you're the boss. It doesn't really matter to me. Liker i said, i'd just like other things taken care of first.

I don't suppose you know how to hook up a Digital Reciver box, do you?