This forum would probably be better if the subforums were condensed

[Vendetta21]

We don't have that many users and even for veterans the number of sub-forums can be daunting, people would probably be more likely to post in multiple places if there were fewer places with more generalized categories, just a thought.

[xVaLoRx]

personally i like the idea of having a subforum for every singlle thread but hey thats just me

[Wayward Vagabond]

Let's just have chit chat and tgb

[Frank Munoz]

lets have forum divisions
I'm D3

[SayoYasuda]

Some forums shouldn't be merged because they contain really good stickies

[icontrolyourworld]

i don't know what's so bad about it, you have 4 categories of forum, one for ffr, one for gaming, one for social, and one for some general hobbies. And then it's broken down into specific things, i find it very easy to navigate the forums, it actually was a lot more cluttered a few years ago and cleaned up once already haha

[-Tim-]

the organization of the boards feels fine to me

[noname219]

Not a problem if you follow this link : http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...archid=5034512

What I would like to see is TGB to appear there and on the front page if you have access to. Don't know if vbulletin allows that.

[Wayward Vagabond]

Most people who post in tgb go there first anyway so I don't think that would matter

[Vendetta21]

TGB is my homepage. Most of the forums see at max 1 viewing at a time, why I thought of that is because if you condense sparse topics you also funnel people browsing each sub forum up and thus make it easier for conversation and dialogue happen. Not to mention from a design/usability standpoint reducing clutter makes things more approachable and aesthetically pleasing

[Vendetta21]

Like Stepmania and other music games can be combined at this point. The three creative forums (writing, audio production, graphic arts) can really be combined into Creative Corner as they serve generally similar personality types and subdivisions actually reduce exposure for things people make that they really want to be seen.

It's just little things like this. If someone put a few hours into cleaning up a little it would probably boost forum traffic in the long term

[Izzy]

It used to be more active.

[gold stinger]

I can't recall the last time I commented on anything in the Life and Arts section of the website, except for shitposting during that entire darkshark fiasco that happened a ways back.

I kind of feel like some fat needs to be trimmed off & generalized further in the sense for subforums, but when I look at it from a point blank perspective, I don't feel like my initial thought is correct anymore, so I'm kind of at a loss for what to think of it.

[gold stinger]

Also you wanna talk about subforums ON FFR but you put it in chit chat tsk tsk

that's like, a free license to shitpost right there

[XelNya]

tbh it got reorganized / slightly condensed even fairly recently.

If anything I'd expand a one or two in the ffr section, and change one thing or so about the batch note process but the forums as they are currently are pretty well condensed.

And that thing about the batch process would be: Give batches their own subforum, all batch note releases get their own thread instead of the cluster fuck that is the one current thread.

Otherwise, rest of it is fine tbh. It's simple enough as it is, if you still get it wrong, it should be a "I wasn't thinking" mistake rather than "I didn't know where that goes." It's pretty obvious.

As for funneling people, eh, it already kinda does that well enough I think. Issue is a lot of people who play don't post.

[SayoYasuda]

It's always amusing to see like 30 people viewing the forums at all hours but there are like 3 posts at max. per day

[rushyrulz]

can we get an online dating subforum?

[MixMasterLar]

Honestly if anything the more of a mess the forums where the more people who posted, lol. I can understand merging the Arts section but really everything else seems pretty ok to me.

I think the bigger issue is that we never really recovered from that 2009 nonsense with the site being down almost the entire year. The Faithful Few came back and we have some newbies but frankly that killed the hype. Re-organizing won't really solve that problem and everyone here knows to skim the forums (assuming they care and have 10 seconds to spare) so I don't think there is a need to do anything further.

Originally Posted by rushyrulz

can we get an online dating subforum?

That can go straight to the Garbage Bin's subforums.

[sickufully]

Some sub-forums could be merged, some could be expanded. I don't really think it's much of an issue atm. I think it's probably just a lack of players.

[MixMasterLar]

I mean, considering what FFR is, I think we have plenty of players actually playing the game.

Kids these days don't socialize like we use to though