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Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 08 Apr 2008 14:51
by 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?
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 08 Apr 2008 14:54
by 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.
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 08 Apr 2008 14:59
by 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?
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 08 Apr 2008 15:05
by 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 ?
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 08 Apr 2008 15:20
by orudge
Mr. X wrote: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.
Rob wrote: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.
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 08 Apr 2008 15:24
by Rob
orudge wrote: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.
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 08 Apr 2008 15:41
by jonty-comp
Rob wrote: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.
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 08 Apr 2008 20:25
by andel
I object.... dunno what to but I object anyway!
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 09 Apr 2008 16:02
by orudge
Pfft, your opinion doesn't count.
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 09 Apr 2008 17:30
by 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.
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 09 Apr 2008 20:59
by Chrill
Shouldn't Beginners go together a tad bit with Tutorials?
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 10 Apr 2008 07:55
by WWTBAM
why not move Screenshots into the save games and scenarios forum or something like the TT Section with a sub forum for each.
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 10 Apr 2008 13:31
by orudge
Chrill wrote: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.
robotboy wrote: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.
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 10 Apr 2008 17:09
by Chrill
Illegal Alien suggested Screenshots to go together with General Discussions under Locomotion. Suppose that's what he meant
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 10 Apr 2008 18:13
by 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
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 16 Apr 2008 14:46
by 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?
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 16 Apr 2008 19:02
by orudge
Everything will be kept as it is, just renamed/reordered. If the Forum Games forum is created, it'll be a subforum.
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 18 Apr 2008 18:22
by Hyronymus
Owen, can't you change the forum order to most popular to least popular too?
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 18 Apr 2008 18:42
by 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.
Re: Minor forums reorganisation
Posted: 18 Apr 2008 18:57
by DaleStan
Greasemonkey is your friend, Hyronymus. As far as I can tell, there is neither a Locomotion section nor an Off Topic forum here.