The subforum shuffle
04-13-2012, 10:17 AM
Good daycycle forumites!
I've been incessantly harangued by a very nice chap who would like something along the lines of a "stuff you made" subforum. The basic principle'd be creating a home for things like the writing, doodling, gift exchange, and user-made videogames threads, allowing scope for people to create their own personal art/music/writing/other creative endeavour threads in future, as well as having specific threads for specific group projects.
I'm keen for it too, save for a couple of logistical problems I'm seeing. Ignoring the the "over-organisation of the forums might be violating the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' rule" dealie, I know we already have a subforum called "shit you can do". While I'm pretty sure I understand the distinction between Something a Little Somethings + roleplays + thread-based game adaptations AND all that stuff I mentioned above in my head, I'm having some trouble thinking up an intuitive way to organise and label it all.
On top of that, we could quite clearly use a Media subforum at some point (for Lets Plays, Eagle Clans in online games, threads for specific games), but that makes me worry I'm taking forum-running tips from MSPAF.
So, yeah. I mostly want to keep things intuitive and tidy for the people who actually use the forum (that's you dudes), so hearing what you'd like changed/kept the same/borrowed from familiar forum grounds/adapted to our requirements would be fantastic.
This certainly won't be an urgent restructuring, and we'll give plenty of warning and tweaking before we settle on anything more major than a single subforum split.
I've been incessantly harangued by a very nice chap who would like something along the lines of a "stuff you made" subforum. The basic principle'd be creating a home for things like the writing, doodling, gift exchange, and user-made videogames threads, allowing scope for people to create their own personal art/music/writing/other creative endeavour threads in future, as well as having specific threads for specific group projects.
I'm keen for it too, save for a couple of logistical problems I'm seeing. Ignoring the the "over-organisation of the forums might be violating the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' rule" dealie, I know we already have a subforum called "shit you can do". While I'm pretty sure I understand the distinction between Something a Little Somethings + roleplays + thread-based game adaptations AND all that stuff I mentioned above in my head, I'm having some trouble thinking up an intuitive way to organise and label it all.
On top of that, we could quite clearly use a Media subforum at some point (for Lets Plays, Eagle Clans in online games, threads for specific games), but that makes me worry I'm taking forum-running tips from MSPAF.
So, yeah. I mostly want to keep things intuitive and tidy for the people who actually use the forum (that's you dudes), so hearing what you'd like changed/kept the same/borrowed from familiar forum grounds/adapted to our requirements would be fantastic.
This certainly won't be an urgent restructuring, and we'll give plenty of warning and tweaking before we settle on anything more major than a single subforum split.
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clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow