VERY Happy About "Gaming Action" Forum UNConsolidation

[garyh]

I agree with Shalimar. There wasn't a need to condense them in the first place. Further, we won't really have any proof of a "problem," as you put it, because the long-term concern is new people won't be able to find the PbP gaming. What, are we going to survey members, asking if they knew we had gaming on the boards, to determine if it's serious?

Not trying to be snarky, but it's hard to prove a negative.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

I agree with Shalimar. There wasn't a need to condense them in the first place. Further, we won't really have any proof of a "problem," as you put it, because the long-term concern is new people won't be able to find the PbP gaming. What, are we going to survey members, asking if they knew we had gaming on the boards, to determine if it's serious?

Ditto... This seems so much like a change for change shake.

Now the "closing" of the d20 Modern forum was a good move, I could and did go in there at least weekly and I saw the same threads...

Now, to be honest, I see the same threads in OOC and IG threads but at least that's because theirs movement.

 

[reapersaurus]

Here's my opinion:

While it's no skin off my teeth (I know where it is, and what it's for), I don't see how it's a good OR NEEDED arrangement.

Do the Mods realize that Talking the Talk is the 3rd-most-popular Forum on your Boards? (tied with House Rules)

I don't see how you feel so little concern over moving such a large traffic-base as that, without consulting the members.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Do the Mods realize that Talking the Talk is the 3rd-most-popular Forum on your Boards? (tied with House Rules)

Technically Playing the Game is the third most popular forum making it one of the big three; with 172,031 posts there is a huge drop off to fourth.

Fourth: House rules
Fifth: Talking the Talk

Now the fallowing all have "front page" status but have less posts that talking the talk:
Story Hour
d20 Modern, d20 System & OGL Games
Rogues Gallery
d20 & Open Gaming Publishers
Gamers Seeking Gamers
Art Gallery, Cartography & Miniatures Painting
Fantasy & Sci-Fi Books, Movies & TV
Software, Computers and D&D Utilities
Miniatures Trading and RPG Marketplace
The Hive: Nemry struts his stuff
Meta

Obvious, The Hive is new, the Marketplace needs front-page status or it’s going to be allot less successful than it is now... Meta would obviously need to stay also.

I've already complained so I'll offer a suggestion:

What if you hide all of the "private" forums below Meta, they really don't apply to most of the users and the user that do need into it WILL no how to get into it.

I don't see how you feel so little concern over moving such a large traffic-base as that, without consulting the members.

Yeah that's pretty much what shocked me the most also...

 

[GnomeWorks]

I think I'll throw in with most of the others that've posted here, and say that I dislike the change. Talking the Talk and Playing the Game, at least, should remain seperate forums, IMHO.

 

[reapersaurus]

Technically Playing the Game is the third most popular forum making it one of the big three; with 172,031 posts there is a huge drop off to fourth.

Fourth: House rules
Fifth: Talking the Talk

Good summary, and I agree with the suggestions.

Technically, though, I'm pretty certain that Playing the Game's 172K postcount is INCLUDING Talking the Talk and Fight Club and Living ENWOrld (since I've tried to monitor the traffic since they were created, and PtG and TtT were almost always close to equal in postcount).

I don't know what the current postcount in PtG is, but assuming it's the same as TtT, than they are both (effectively) tied with House Rules for 3rd most popular Forums on the entire boards.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Good summary, and I agree with the suggestions.

Thanks!

Technically, though, I'm pretty certain that Playing the Game's 172K postcount is INCLUDING Talking the Talk and Fight Club and Living ENWOrld

I'm pretty sure I'm right, I got my numbers from the fallowing link:

Gaming Action Sub-Forums

Though for the record I didn't count the posts individually.

 

[reapersaurus]

wow - that;s VERY intriguing, Brother Shatterstone.
I don't see how those numbers are possible.
I've not looked at the numbers for awhile, but never did PtG have THAT much more than TtT.

I really do think that those numbers for PtG are including the sub-forums.
The number that really makes me believe that is the number of threads in PtG.
I don't see how PtG can have 3.5 times more threads than TtT, since there is usually at least a 1:1 ratio between the two forums.

Do you get what I mean?
Very seldom are there more than 1 thread in PtG created for each thread in TtT. In fact, the only times there would be more threads in PtG is when long-running adventures are continued (and I don't think that's happened more than a hundred-threads' worth). However, in TtT there's more chance of a new thread being created that is independant of a game running in PtG. There are many threads created there solely for discussing PbP in general, or informing people that they'll be gone, or are back, or are Recruitment threads that don't actually get a game started.

Is there any way for a Mod to confirm how many posts/threads are ACTUALLY in PtG?
Does that 172K+ number include the other forums?

 

[Dinkeldog]

Not that I claim to be Morrus' mouthpiece or anything, but part of the idea is to try to keep the distance between the top of the boards and the bottom from being quite so huge. Since Playing the Game and Talking the Talk are related, it makes more sense to put them together.

Now from a strictly outsider viewpoint, I like having the PtG forum on the outside because that's where I'm more likely to go and poke around and read other peoples' games like it's a story hour. YMMV.

The other forums that may not get as much traffic as the PbP forums are still distinct enough that we feel merging them would be a bad idea. Board re-organization is, however a constant process. As new ideas and changing board patterns emerge (note that d20 systems and d20 Modern are now merged), things will shift a bit here and there.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

wow - that;s VERY intriguing, Brother Shatterstone.
I don't see how those numbers are possible.
I've not looked at the numbers for awhile, but never did PtG have THAT much more than TtT.

:shrugs:

I doubt the number lie...

But try this:
Your "front page"

And compare to this:
RPG Forums Sub-Forums

They’re the same to me... Though one are two post diffrences could happen if someone posts while you in the process of testing.