[Merged] D&D forum renaming thread

[Yunru]

Side note -- you can sort threads by tag.

I don't know. Clicking the 5E filter (or whatever) doesn't feel like that much of a burden to me. But that's just my opinion.

But at that point you might as well have had a subforum. It has the same effect, except now it's less newbie friendly (and relies on people actually tagging their post).

 

[ParanoydStyle]

What existing problems was this change meant to fix?

Should probably have 3 sections. 5E, Paizo, Previou Editions. Shrugs.

That sounds like a better organizational scheme.

 

[lowkey13]

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[pukunui]

It doesn't solve the "Jim Ward" problem (luminary who deserves more traffic), but it seems that we are creating a huge problem by solving something that doesn't pop up very often.

Allowing us to filter by tag doesn’t help with this “problem” either, since the Jim Ward post isn’t tagged, so anyone who’s just viewing the filtered forum still won’t see it.

 

[Deset Gled]

Could I suggest moving the "General" Forum to the top of the forum list, and the "Dungeons & Dragons" forum second? I think having a forum for all D&D combined is going to cause more general discussion to happen there. Having the General forum on top might help encourage people to use it for non-game-specific discussion.

 

[pukunui]

What existing problems was this change meant to fix?

From the man himself:

I was worried about awesome D&D articles like the Jim Ward column getting the eyeballs they deserve.

 

[Azzy]

I was worried about awesome D&D articles like the Jim Ward column getting the eyeballs they deserve.

Is there a way to have such threads be tagged to show up in multiple subforums?

 

[Ludd_G]

Unless tagging is obligatory (and really should be retroactively implemented) it's going to make using the forums a less user friendly experience, and I imagine I'll be using it much less (yes, I know, low post count, but a long time reader). FWIW I'm exclusively interested in 5e content, for which this site has been my go to resource.

Please consider undoing the changes.

Cheers, Ludd

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Did anyone else have a bunch of subscribed threads become unsubscribed when this reorganization happened?

 

[Morrus]

Did anyone else have a bunch of subscribed threads become unsubscribed when this reorganization happened?

Since all I did was change the name of two forums, there’s no way it could have unsubscribed you from anything.