This is just a suggestion, obviously I have no desire to give the mods and Dino any more work. It feels like 2gnt has become very cluttered in the effort to become more organized. There are countless forums to navigate through, and it has made the previously easy-to-use main forum listings tab inefficient. Example, I have to actually READ carefully or I'll end up in the THINGS WE'VE SEEN BEFORE forum yet again.
Some forums I think you could trim from the tab/modify on the board:
-"War Stories" (on the tab but no longer used) -Condense the shootouts into one forum, or at least have just one main shootout listing on the listings tab that will take you to the subforums. It's not like someone gets the sudden urge to use the tab b/c I NEED TO SEE SHOOTOUT 2003 QUICK! -"Things we've seen before." This was a good idea long ago, that maybe the new members would check it out and then not post questions about old material. I think it's safe to say that it hasn't ended up working that way for most new guys. The search engine is still the best way to go, and having these extra forums may work against that even. For example, for speed I confine my searches to a single forum. Threads outside of the active forums you intuitively search through would leave out some relevant material. Some of these forums have only 5 threads anyway, and many of the threads are junk. If you want a "stupid/useless stuff" forum to put stuff like that in, fine, but do we really need a forum that has 50% of it's posts about flame throwers? That material can be moved back to the original forums, or gift-wrapped and sent to the nearest Honda forum. -1g/4g63 talk (undergoing archival) on the tab but not accessible anyway. -This last idea is probably the weakest, but for 4g63 BST forum - I think it's not intuitive for new members to think we have TWO BST forums. I would put that as a subforum in BST. Maybe I just don't believe in segregation
Thanks for reading.
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#1026, "RE: Removing some clutter." In response to Reply # 0
What view are you using? I use DCF view and I am confused where your seeing tabs. For stuff like the war stories and 1g archival i would be happy to remove them but I am not sure where your seeing them.
Some good suggestions and your right we can do that. For some reason I dont understand what your looking at though. The SO forum has all the older SO forums subbed under it so you only see them when you open the SO forum. Help me out and explain it a little better.
#1028, "RE: Removing some clutter." In response to Reply # 2
The "previously easy-to-use main forum listings tab" I'm referring to is the tab on the bottom right corner of every page (sometimes it says "jump to another forum", right now it says "main forum listings" for me). Actually this is something I heard people comment on after the last major site change. When we had like 10 forums, it was just really easy to switch between them. Now the drop down menu on that tab has like 108230948123128 of them.
2gnt: '99 RS-T, killed by a toyota, pending rebuild... Daily: Volt Daily #2: '99 EVG ebike- STOLEN by PEDRO
