Forum Performance - Part Deaux
ericmedley
Posts: 4,177
In light of the grumbling about the forum performance - I thought I might throw this idea out to all y'all...
What if we took some of the granularity out of the forum hierarchy? Right now the forum displays as a pretty vast set of granular topics that I find visually confusing. Instead of having the whole variety of Topic divisions, perhaps simplify it down to some key components.
A brainstorming thought might be just a few basic divisions:
Netlinx Programming
DUET Programming
AMX Hardware: (no subdivisions - just any AMX box)
AMX Software: No subdivisions - just any AMX software like RMS
ModPedia (Just change to Software examples or whatever)
If you think about it - we don't have a ton of traffic and most inquiries or discussions typically fall into one of these wheel houses.
My thinking is (knowing BBS software) taking out a lot of the granularity might help performance a bit. It also might help juice up conversation if we are all looking at less white noise.
Also - I'd recommend we take out the "reserved spaces" like ACE. I know there are many ACE's who continue to not have access to the ACE section. Since there is a smaller crowd hitting the forum I don't feel we need to section off a private club. There is just not that much traffic there anyway. I'm in the VIP group and there hasn't been any activity there for ages.
So, to recap:
1) Trim down the forum hierarchy to 5 sections (with now subsections)
2) make forum access flat to all members - (no "members only" clubs)
To the forum admin - my thinking is we'd just need to do a bulk move of all posts to the proper new sections and delete the old.
That's my idea.
What if we took some of the granularity out of the forum hierarchy? Right now the forum displays as a pretty vast set of granular topics that I find visually confusing. Instead of having the whole variety of Topic divisions, perhaps simplify it down to some key components.
A brainstorming thought might be just a few basic divisions:
Netlinx Programming
DUET Programming
AMX Hardware: (no subdivisions - just any AMX box)
AMX Software: No subdivisions - just any AMX software like RMS
ModPedia (Just change to Software examples or whatever)
If you think about it - we don't have a ton of traffic and most inquiries or discussions typically fall into one of these wheel houses.
My thinking is (knowing BBS software) taking out a lot of the granularity might help performance a bit. It also might help juice up conversation if we are all looking at less white noise.
Also - I'd recommend we take out the "reserved spaces" like ACE. I know there are many ACE's who continue to not have access to the ACE section. Since there is a smaller crowd hitting the forum I don't feel we need to section off a private club. There is just not that much traffic there anyway. I'm in the VIP group and there hasn't been any activity there for ages.
So, to recap:
1) Trim down the forum hierarchy to 5 sections (with now subsections)
2) make forum access flat to all members - (no "members only" clubs)
To the forum admin - my thinking is we'd just need to do a bulk move of all posts to the proper new sections and delete the old.
That's my idea.
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