main forum page get new look?

[Knight Otu]

The ISRP Chit-Chat forum description mentions that "Subforums of this board allow for in character participation." Maybe the other ISRP forums could become actual subforums, if that is ok with the ISRP members? It would reduce the page size, at least.
I'm sure there're other possibilities as well, but the best I can come up with is having Rules, House Rules and Conversions as subforums of a "Crunch Talk" forum. Which doesn't sound very good to me.

 

[reveal]

Wow, thanks, never noticed that.

What would make it perfect though, is if you could simply specifiy that you wanted to only see X,Y, and Z sub forums, and have everything else hidden, (hidden in that only the major forum categories show up)

I thought about that, but, personally, I like seeing the other forums, even if I hardly ever visit them. Every now and then I'll see a topic heading that catches my eye and I visit.

 

[William Ronald]

The difference between the two is a single variable, so making it user controllable is possible. I don't think anyone likes the other way though.

On my browser, it looks like the boards went back to the old style -- which is a bit easier for me to follow.

I did not like the horizontal arrangement of the subforums.

However, I do appreciate the hard work.

 

[Kylara]

I thought about that, but, personally, I like seeing the other forums, even if I hardly ever visit them. Every now and then I'll see a topic heading that catches my eye and I visit.

My reason fo suggesting it is that, I have 4 categories open, that is something like 25 subforums viewable, but I only ever enter 6 subforums, of which, 3 are all alone in categores that have 5 sub-forums that I don't read. I was making the suggestion since Spoony wants to reduce scroll time
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[RangerWickett]

Perhaps a listing of the main areas -- RPG Forums, Gaming Action, ISRP, Non-RPG, Hosted Sites, and Meta -- going down vertically, each with the subforums listed in paragraph format. Then two highly obvious buttons that say "Expand" and "Expand All." So when you first load the page, you see

MAIN AREA 1.
Description.
Linked list of subforum names, like general, rules, house rules, etc.

MAIN AREA 2.
Description.
Linked list of subforum names, like storyhour, gaming fun.

MAIN AREA 3.
Description.
Linked list of subforum names, like all the various ISRP thingies.

MAIN AREA 4.
Description.
Linked list of subforum names, like art, sci-fi books, computers, off-topic.
But if you click expand you'd get:

MAIN AREA 5.
Description.
Linked list of subforum names, like Creature Catalogue, EN Pub.

MAIN AREA 6.
Description.
Linked list of subforum names, like Meta, metameta, and polymeta.

But if you click expand for area 1, you'd get:

MAIN AREA 1.
Description.
General
D&D Rules
House Rules
D20 Games
Rogue's Gallery
Publisher's Forum

MAIN AREA 2.
Description.
Linked list of subforum names, like storyhour, gaming fun.

MAIN AREA 3.
Description.
Linked list of subforum names, like all the various ISRP thingies.

MAIN AREA 4.
Description.
Linked list of subforum names, like art, sci-fi books, computers, off-topic.
But if you click expand you'd get:

MAIN AREA 5.
Description.
Linked list of subforum names, like Creature Catalogue, EN Pub.

MAIN AREA 6.
Description.
Linked list of subforum names, like Meta, metameta, and polymeta.

and if you clicked expand all, . . . well, I'd have to type a lot of forum names that I don't feel like doing.

 

[Templeton580]

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[Truth Seeker]

i HAVE a DREAM!!!

Man, I must apologize to Michael...for going all dog tear on him, when I saw the changes. Like ya know, one moment, I was going through the menu selection, going back and forth forums, and all the sudden....WHAMMO!!! Twilight zone, at first, I though, someone hacked my system, then I checked.

NaAAAAA!!!

Then I chedked around EnWorld.

Naaaaaa!

Then my fingers and peeps, direct me here.

BINGO!

Then I went all Dr jeckle and Hyde on him.

Not nice from me .

So...me sorry, me almost forgot the great dreams that Michael has for this site, me listened with GREAT passion to Spoony, Fix things on occasion...Michael. Me did. So...from me, purely me...live the Dream Man...Live the DREAM!

( But can we get a shadow of a forewarning, first? mE KNOW the other warning, me saw on the promter of blackness and orange font...still not prepare yet, for the madness)

 

[William Ronald]

Man, I must apologize to Michael...for going all dog tear on him, when I saw the changes. Like ya know, one moment, I was going through the menu selection, going back and forth forums, and all the sudden....WHAMMO!!! Twilight zone, at first, I though, someone hacked my system, then I checked.

NaAAAAA!!!

Then I chedked around EnWorld.

Naaaaaa!

Then my fingers and peeps, direct me here.

BINGO!

Then I went all Dr jeckle and Hyde on him.

Not nice from me .

So...me sorry, me almost forgot the great dreams that Michael has for this site, me listened with GREAT passion to Spoony, Fix things on occasion...Michael. Me did. So...from me, purely me...live the Dream Man...Live the DREAM!

( But can we get a shadow of a forewarning, first? mE KNOW the other warning, me saw on the promter of blackness and orange font...still not prepare yet, for the madness)

Michael does have great dreams, but I think he also needs our support. Some constructive criticism can help. Truth Seeker, at least you have the grace to apologize.

I like Ranger Wickett's idea, and possibly the main area might include the title of the most recently posted thread and a time stamp (possibly the poster's name). Expanding the list would produce the same information for each subforum. This might just be a matter of hiding some fo the sub forums, and having something added to each main forum. (The thread titles might draw people to each forum, or at least let people know what is discussed in a forum on the boards.)

 

[Truth Seeker]

Michael does have great dreams, but I think he also needs our support. Some constructive criticism can help. Truth Seeker, at least you have the grace to apologize.

Yes...It had to be done, cause...when Michael spoke to me at Gen Con, on all the wonderful things that has been envisioned for EnWorld(and the total of it will stay private). It took a delay moment to digest all that tech talk, at the end...I witness an individual who is knee deep, in the rare thing, that we never truly see.

Magic...

Michael is the mage of the code speak, and God Bless him, I can't wait to see the wonders, that swirl in his layered mind.

And I will NOT take him for granted, either.

So...bring it on

SPOONY!!!

 

[Hand of Evil]

Ah, forget, I'm switching it back.

We are just set in our ways.