Forum Arrangement

[Umbran]

But... looking at "all discussion" *is* reading all the forums, mashed together....

 

[Morrus]

Yeah, the content is the same (except that it includes news articles also). The layout is different, but otherwise they're functionally the same page. The all-threads page strips out some of the extra content and doesn't show a preview of the thread content.

 

[delericho]

Interestingly, I've found my bookmark to "All Discussion" still works.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

As does mine.

FWIW, I personally found that forum to be slightly more useful than "What's New?" Seeing things at the thread level as opposed to the post level made it easier- for me, at least- to see the spammers. My personal pattern recognition synapses see more contrast between regular postings and most of those of the spammers. Especially right now when the spammers seem to be making new threads more than posting in other people's threads.

(The obvious exception is those spam posts within threads.)

 

[Riley]

Interestingly, I've found my bookmark to "All Discussion" still works.

Can you share the text of your bookmark? Mine gives a database error.

 

[delericho]

Can you share the text of your bookmark? Mine gives a database error.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?500-All-Discussion

Hope that helps!

 

[Riley]

http://www.enworld.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?500-All-Discussion

Hope that helps!

That's the same text I was using and getting errors with on iOS. Today it is working fine for me again - on both iOS/Safari and Win7/Chrome.

Yay!

 

[Morrus]

So, as an aside, anyone got any thoughts on the OP?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

So, as an aside, anyone got any thoughts on the OP?

I think you're basically right: empty, dead forums do you no favors. I'm a member of 4 community forums here, and the only one with a post in the past year is the one that started this year.

Personally, I think the RPG community is diverse enough that you're on the right track of dividing up the board in to subfora for different interests. I mostly understand why you have them divided the way you do, but I probably would have done it slightly differently. I probably would have separated them along genre lines- FRPGs, Sci-Fi, Supers, Horror, etc., with the thought in mind that concepts, lessons, resources and the like from games within a genre can be fairly easily ported into others.

Of course, then people would point out genre-mashing games like RIFTS or Shadowrun.

 

[delericho]

Interestingly, I've found my bookmark to "All Discussion" still works.

Worth noting, though, that the news Star Trek/Wars forum doesn't appear in "All Discussion".