Wippit Guud
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I haven't really noticed that Rogue Gallery is cluttered, but maybe having a Characters forum along with the IC and OOC forums...
[IC board] Needs a bit of orginisation. . .
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Wippit Guud
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Only confusing for the short-duration, once people get used to it it'll be second nature.
Sir Osis of Liver
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I don't see anything wrong with Rogues gallery. The main problem is the OOC and recruiting threads in the IC forum.
Old Fezziwig
Thanks for the sour persimmons, cousin.
I used the Gamers Seeking Gamers forum for recruiting before and it seemed to work fine. This might make sense with a minimum of rearrangement. Of course, it doesn't do a thing about the OOC clutter. Just a thought...
Best,
tKL
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tKL
Creamsteak
Explorer
I'm one who doesn't have a problem telling what threads are updated, but I am on the boards at least 1/day it seems... so it's not that much of an issue for me, however, if you guys decide to do something, I'll pull an hour or two and do what I did for Edena's IR.
That being, I'll go through all the pages of threads in the IC forum and sort them into whatever 'grouping' you guys decide to use, with the links all in one post (or email).
Honestly, the problem really is that I don't think these boards were meant to accomodate 100 total players and 50 games, which is my estimation on the 'climax' to come. If you could view more 'threads per page', or if there was a way to tell what posts have been updated by the DM (which is most of what the players wait on), that would solve everything, and these boards just 'don't know how', and I'm not one who knows if you can 'teach them.'
However, please note that I really don't want to leave the IC forum here. This is the most 'relaxed' role-playing gaming that I've ever had. Move it into a smaller 'sub-culture' (a messageboard devoted to PbP for instance), and I think I'd see what I saw in the 8-bit theater role-playing room -one style dominance. At least here, we can have a vampire the masquerade game right next to Kobold-quest and the 3rd IR.
(Ok, so I'm on a metaphor kick, so what?)
Is there any way to increase the number of thread views per page, I might not have seen it in the user options, but that would remove the 2nd-page problem for some.
(Ok, now without the metaphors and stuff)
Options I've seen presented, or have thought of:
Increase the total thread views per page, so as to alleviate the 'it's on page 2 in an hour' problem.
Divide the Forum into catagories (I'll offer my time to sort out which threads go where, and email the list n' links to the moderators): this creates a certain degree of funness to having more OOC talk, and promotes more IC in the IC, in my opinion.
I could email DMs who don't use the Index (and change that post at the top! It's just insulting), and inform them of the general service they would be doing to use it.
Email my players (and other DMs email their own) to learn to subscribe to threads so that they automatically know when they are updated. This alone solves those 1/week posters problem, with an email that goes right to the most recent post they have missed.
Comments?
That being, I'll go through all the pages of threads in the IC forum and sort them into whatever 'grouping' you guys decide to use, with the links all in one post (or email).
Honestly, the problem really is that I don't think these boards were meant to accomodate 100 total players and 50 games, which is my estimation on the 'climax' to come. If you could view more 'threads per page', or if there was a way to tell what posts have been updated by the DM (which is most of what the players wait on), that would solve everything, and these boards just 'don't know how', and I'm not one who knows if you can 'teach them.'
However, please note that I really don't want to leave the IC forum here. This is the most 'relaxed' role-playing gaming that I've ever had. Move it into a smaller 'sub-culture' (a messageboard devoted to PbP for instance), and I think I'd see what I saw in the 8-bit theater role-playing room -one style dominance. At least here, we can have a vampire the masquerade game right next to Kobold-quest and the 3rd IR.
(Ok, so I'm on a metaphor kick, so what?)
Is there any way to increase the number of thread views per page, I might not have seen it in the user options, but that would remove the 2nd-page problem for some.
(Ok, now without the metaphors and stuff)
Options I've seen presented, or have thought of:
Increase the total thread views per page, so as to alleviate the 'it's on page 2 in an hour' problem.
Divide the Forum into catagories (I'll offer my time to sort out which threads go where, and email the list n' links to the moderators): this creates a certain degree of funness to having more OOC talk, and promotes more IC in the IC, in my opinion.
I could email DMs who don't use the Index (and change that post at the top! It's just insulting), and inform them of the general service they would be doing to use it.
Email my players (and other DMs email their own) to learn to subscribe to threads so that they automatically know when they are updated. This alone solves those 1/week posters problem, with an email that goes right to the most recent post they have missed.
Comments?
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Shapermc
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creamsteak said:
This is another good idea. I like this.
creamsteak said:
This is still my favorite idea. It looks more orginised.
creamsteak said:
Ahhh indexes. . . . The reason that I like the orginisation in different forums is because I know exactly where to go. The thing about index posts is that when I am *cough*at work*cough* my connection is very slow. It takes time for me, and I know others as well, to load these pages then follow the link and. . . but if they are orginised into different catagories I know what I am looking for and go straight to it.
creamsteak said:
Again I have similar opinions about this as stated above. I have more things to check this way. I honestly just recently set up a website that has all my games with links on them so that when i am in a rush I just open the home page and then surf from there.
I sudgested this idea for people who are short on time. I try to post once a day, but sometimes I only have 5 min to post, and when it takes 5 min to load all the pages . . . my RP quality suffers
Just my take on this. I am not trying to insult your ideas. I have just never found index handy, or subscribing to posts (free email accounts have a notoriety for being deathly slow sometimes as well.)
/me has just inserted his 2gp
Krizzel
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I really do not like the idea of having the OOC threads in another forum. The point of having the OOC threads, for me, is to discuss rules issues, table talk, etc. without cluttering up the game's IC thread.
Having OOC all in a separate forum will, from my perspective, encourage people to start posting OOC in my IC threads, simply because of the opportunity cost. Currently the OOC thread is on the same page or the next page in the forum (usually), so they aren't to inconvenient to get to.
Putting them in another forum increases both the number of clicks to get to the thread and the load time needed (loading the next page in a particular forum is noticeably faster than loading a whole new forum). While not very difficult, I think the slight increase in inconvenience will lessen the utility of the OOC threads.
Certainly there is an annoyance to how fast threads drop in the IC forum currently. However, I'd rather we took the time to brainstorm some options, collect them all, debate the merits of each, and then decide. I think we'll arrive at a better solution that way.
To start off, I think creamsteak's idea of increasing the number of threads viewed per page is a good one. It keeps more things on the first page without disrupting any of the current functionality.
How about, either separately or in addition to that, pinning the IC threads of currently running games? That would keep all the 'business' threads up front where they can quickly be checked for updates.
If we go the route of new forums, then I'd rather see one for d20 Modern, one for 'Other', and one or two for D&D, all including IC, OOC, and recruiting threads together in a single forum. Since that language isn't quiet clear, an example:
The D&D forum would contain: D&D IC threads, D&D OOC threads, and D&D recruiting threads.
That would also slow thread drop and at least keep all the threads related to a single game together in the same forum.
Having OOC all in a separate forum will, from my perspective, encourage people to start posting OOC in my IC threads, simply because of the opportunity cost. Currently the OOC thread is on the same page or the next page in the forum (usually), so they aren't to inconvenient to get to.
Putting them in another forum increases both the number of clicks to get to the thread and the load time needed (loading the next page in a particular forum is noticeably faster than loading a whole new forum). While not very difficult, I think the slight increase in inconvenience will lessen the utility of the OOC threads.
Certainly there is an annoyance to how fast threads drop in the IC forum currently. However, I'd rather we took the time to brainstorm some options, collect them all, debate the merits of each, and then decide. I think we'll arrive at a better solution that way.
To start off, I think creamsteak's idea of increasing the number of threads viewed per page is a good one. It keeps more things on the first page without disrupting any of the current functionality.
How about, either separately or in addition to that, pinning the IC threads of currently running games? That would keep all the 'business' threads up front where they can quickly be checked for updates.
If we go the route of new forums, then I'd rather see one for d20 Modern, one for 'Other', and one or two for D&D, all including IC, OOC, and recruiting threads together in a single forum. Since that language isn't quiet clear, an example:
The D&D forum would contain: D&D IC threads, D&D OOC threads, and D&D recruiting threads.
That would also slow thread drop and at least keep all the threads related to a single game together in the same forum.
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