We've been looking at each forum and its activity with an eye towards consolidation - the basic idea that we want fewer busy forum rather than lots of dead forums. There are a few which move incredibly slowly, and these are being merged into other forums; in general, if there are threads on the first page whose last post dates back to the middle of last year, it's gonna get merged with something else.
Where forums are merged into larger ones, we have assigned tags to that subject so that you can easily pull out the threads on that subject with a single click (creating a "virtual forum" if you will). So if you go to General and click on a Plots & Places icon, you'll get a forum of just Plots & Places threads. Our trend will be towards virtual forums created via tags than actual real forums for the foreseeable future.
There are a few more merges to come; we're currently discussing the best fits in the admin forum. We'll let you know when we decide on final destinations.
- We merged Legacy House Rules (which was very quiet) with Legacy Rules the other day to create a single Legacy forum.
- We merged Other RPG Discussion (again, very slow) with General RPG Discussion.
- We have just merged Plots & Places with General RPG Discussion.
- Software has been merged with the Media Lounge. Video Games and tech discussion now go in the Media Lounge, while RPG utilities now go in the apprpriate game's forum (General, 4E, Legacy, or Pathfinder).
- Art and cartography threads now go in Media Lounge.
Where forums are merged into larger ones, we have assigned tags to that subject so that you can easily pull out the threads on that subject with a single click (creating a "virtual forum" if you will). So if you go to General and click on a Plots & Places icon, you'll get a forum of just Plots & Places threads. Our trend will be towards virtual forums created via tags than actual real forums for the foreseeable future.
There are a few more merges to come; we're currently discussing the best fits in the admin forum. We'll let you know when we decide on final destinations.
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