Minor forums reorganisation

[orudge]

Would anyone object to me reorganising the forums structure a bit, like so:

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Read These First
    News
    FAQ / Help Centre

General
    Forum Suggestions and Feedback
    General Transport Discussion
    Off-Topic
        Forum Games

Chris Sawyer's Locomotion
    General Discussion
    Problems, FAQs and Tutorials
    Beginners
    Scenarios
    Graphics, Modifications & Tools

Transport Tycoon
    General Transport Tycoon
    Transport Tycoon (Original)
    Transport Tycoon Deluxe
    Problems
    Screenshots, Scenarios and Saved Games
        Screenshots
        Scenarios and Saved Games

TTDPatch
    General Discussion
    Problems
    Suggestions
    Graphics

OpenTTD
    General Discussion
    Problems
    Suggestions
    Graphics
    Development

Transport Empire
    General Discussion
    Development
    Coding
    Graphics
    Development Archive

Other Projects and Games
    Simutrans
    Transport Giant
    Transport Unlimited
    3DTT (Trains & Trucks Tycoon)
    Zugspiel
    Railroad Tycoon Series

Archived Forums
    Owen's TT Station Forum (Archived Posts)
    alt.games.microprose.transport-tyc

The main changes are removing the now-superfluous "TTDPatch", "OpenTTD", "Transport Empire", etc, from forum names (now that we have the navbar, there will hopefully not be too much of an issue with people getting confused over which section they're posting in), as well as introducing a Forum Games forum (if that is agreed upon in the other thread), and moving some of the archived forums down to their own section at the bottom of the page.

Comments?

[jonty-comp]

I would have to see how OT looked without all the games, it would probably be empty.
But removing the superfluous headings seems like a good idea, I remember being confused once or twice about graphics forums and such in the past but it hasn't happened since the upgrade (even though I randomly alternate between using subBlue and the TT theme for some reason).

Edit: And the archived posts is definitely best at the bottom, seeing as noone can write in it anyway, and it hasn't been updated for years.

[DeletedUser21]

Looks good, however a tiny question:

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TTDPatch
  General Discussion    
  Problems    
  Suggestions    
  Graphics
OpenTTD    
  General Discussion    
  Problems    
  Suggestions    
  Graphics    
  Development

Why wasn't there a development sub-forum in the TTDPatch section?

[Rob]

Removing the "now-superfluous" as you say will get me confused no doubt, since I only check the forums by the "view new posts" button.
As you can see in the attachment, removing "TTDpatch", "OpenTTD" or "Locomation" from f.i. the problems forum, will give me three forums with the same name, or am I doing something wrong here ?

[orudge]

Why wasn't there a development sub-forum in the TTDPatch section?

There was never really any need for one, I guess. TTDPatch development is performed by a relatively small group of programmers, whereas OpenTTD has lots more user-contributed patches.

As you can see in the attachment, removing "TTDpatch", "OpenTTD" or "Locomation" from f.i. the problems forum, will give me three forums with the same name, or am I doing something wrong here ?

Hmm, I guess that's a possible problem, I'm not sure if that can be resolved easily. You could always mouse-over the forum link and compare the forum IDs.

[Rob]

Hmm, I guess that's a possible problem, I'm not sure if that can be resolved easily. You could always mouse-over the forum link and compare the forum IDs.

Oh boy.

If it were possible to give each forum a different text colour that would be much user friendlier, at least on subsilver that is.

[jonty-comp]

If it were possible to give each forum a different text colour that would be much user friendlier, at least on subsilver that is.

Hmm, that's an idea.

[andel]

I object.... dunno what to but I object anyway!

[orudge]

Pfft, your opinion doesn't count.

[Illegal_Alien]

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Chris Sawyer's Locomotion    
  General Discussion    
  Problems, FAQs and Tutorials    
  Beginners    
  Scenarios    
  Graphics, Modifications & Tools

to:

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Chris Sawyer's Locomotion    
  General Discussion & Screenshots
  Problems, FAQs and Tutorials    
  Beginners    
  Scenarios & Savegames
  Graphics, Modifications & Tools

On the otherhand i think the beginnersstuf could be in General Discussion though.

[Chrill]

Shouldn't Beginners go together a tad bit with Tutorials?

[WWTBAM]

why not move Screenshots into the save games and scenarios forum or something like the TT Section with a sub forum for each.

[orudge]

Shouldn't Beginners go together a tad bit with Tutorials?

I have no plans to change what the forums actually ARE - i.e., I'm performing some minor reorganisation of the forum structure, but not the actual forum contents.

why not move Screenshots into the save games and scenarios forum or something like the TT Section with a sub forum for each.

What do you mean by that? Screenshots already has its own subforum.

[Chrill]

Illegal Alien suggested Screenshots to go together with General Discussions under Locomotion. Suppose that's what he meant

[orudge]

Hmm, well, I'm not sure "Screenshots" is necessarily required in the General Discussion forum for Locomotion - there's a thread for it, and the entire forum isn't for screenshots as it were. The TTD forum (when Screenshots used to be there) never had "Screenshots" in its name.

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Read These First
    News
    FAQ / Help Centre

General
    Forum Suggestions and Feedback
    General Transport Discussion
    Off-Topic
        Forum Games

Chris Sawyer's Locomotion
    General Discussion
    Problems, FAQs and Tutorials
    Beginners
    Scenarios and Saved Games
    Graphics, Modifications & Tools

Transport Tycoon
    General Transport Tycoon
    Transport Tycoon (Original)
    Transport Tycoon Deluxe
    Problems
    Screenshots, Scenarios and Saved Games
        Screenshots
        Scenarios and Saved Games

TTDPatch
    General Discussion
    Problems
    Suggestions
    Graphics

OpenTTD
    General Discussion
    Problems
    Suggestions
    Graphics
    Development

Transport Empire
    General Discussion
    Development
    Coding
    Graphics
    Development Archive

Other Projects and Games
    Simutrans
    Transport Giant
    Transport Unlimited
    3DTT (Trains & Trucks Tycoon)
    Zugspiel
    Railroad Tycoon Series

Archived Forums
    Owen's TT Station Forum (Archived Posts)
    alt.games.microprose.transport-tyc

[Daan Timmer]

Do you also intent to make them as subforums? Like this: http://forum.microchip.com/

Or keep it the way it is now, but just renaming/moving?

[orudge]

Everything will be kept as it is, just renamed/reordered. If the Forum Games forum is created, it'll be a subforum.

[Hyronymus]

Owen, can't you change the forum order to most popular to least popular too?

[orudge]

Meaning what exactly? If I were to reorganise the categories based upon number of posts, it'd go:

- General
- OpenTTD
- TTDPatch
- Transport Tycoon
- Chris Sawyer's Locomotion
- Transport Empire
- Other Projects and Games

If I were to reorganise the Read These First and Administrators and Moderators categories too, the latter would be above Other Projects and Games, and Read These First would be at the bottom.

What we could do is put Locomotion below OpenTTD, perhaps.

[DaleStan]

Greasemonkey is your friend, Hyronymus. As far as I can tell, there is neither a Locomotion section nor an Off Topic forum here.