Reordering the Members Forums

[RobertX]

Hey guys,

At the moment, the Member's Forums part of the board can use some re-organising. I say this because it seems to be jumbled-up. Maybe I'm retarded, but I can't find the right topic without spending nine minutes of relooking (OK, it's two minutes, but hey, I always liked hyperboles, you understand ).

Don't get me wrong, I like SuprBay and it's well-run, but it's caring about these little steps will make steer it a little better.

Thanks.

[NIK]

You're right, it can be confusing.

But alpabetical order would be confusing to anyone who doesn't already know what names we've given things.

If it helps, here is what I was thinking when I put them in the order they're in.

1. Mirror the Pirate Bay order: Audio, Video (Movies and TV Shows), Apps, Games, Porn, Other

2. Tutorials should come first, so people looking for help find them before they start asking questions.

3. Requests should come second, again, so people see those forums before they start posting requests in the Movie discussion forum etc.

4. Promote Your Torrents is, in a way, the flipside of requests, so it makes sense for it to be next to requests.

5. Art and Books, being both part of Other on TPB, are together and just arranged alphetically between themselves.

6. Programming & Development (ie. basically software) and Hardware and Networking (ie. basically hardware) are another natural twosome.

7. Laws, and ways around them are another natural twosome.

8. General, being "anything else" should come last.

9. The Void, least of all, belongs last of all.



I'm open to suggestions of "better" orders but only if you tell me exactly what they are and why they're better. "Can use some re-organising" is just too vague.

[RobertX]

I would do this:

1. Leave "Site Forums" the way it is.

2. Computers
- Hardware
- Software
- Games

3. Contemporary Issues and Discussion
- General
- Economics, Politics, and Law
- Online Privacy & Censorship Busting

4. Entertainment(I initially thought of adding "Games," but I think they're of the technical types as they involve a lot more about computers (i.e. a PC and a video game system)
- Music
- TV
- Movies
- Books

5. "Vocational" Discussion (I use "vocation" because these sections are usually about members posting their own creations to this section)
- Art
- Programming

6. Torrent-Related
- Promote Your Torrents
- Requests

7. Tutorials in its own section (kind of like the continent and country Australia)

8. Void

If I haven't been clear in the re-order, then I would tell you that these "Super Topics" should have its independent section, like what Site Forums is right now... and oh, Void and Trash too, two independent sections.

Thank you.

[NIK]

Interesting. I don't agree with all of that but is certainly a plausible alternative. Thx.

I'll stick this thread for a while, with an added poll, and we'll see if anyone else has anything to say about it.

[.::Alien::.]

I like NIKs order !

[hotpena]

I also like NIK's Order.
But better if little change in No.1. Mirror the Pirate Bay order: Audio, Movies ,TV Shows, Apps, Games, Porn, Other
Is more better to separate Movies ,TV Shows rather then only video