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Post by Vyckie D. Garrison on May 18, 2010 10:29:00 GMT -5
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Post by jemand on May 18, 2010 11:06:06 GMT -5
I *really* prefer the forum...
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Post by Vyckie D. Garrison on May 18, 2010 11:13:30 GMT -5
I *really* prefer the forum... Really? Does it not drive you crazy? I think it's become so cumbersome. I would like to at least organize it so that the more active sections are prominent ~ and the old stuff that has very little activity is not taking up the majority of the front page.
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Post by Sierra on May 18, 2010 11:24:32 GMT -5
I *really* prefer the forum... Really? Does it not drive you crazy? I think it's become so cumbersome. I would like to at least organize it so that the more active sections are prominent ~ and the old stuff that has very little activity is not taking up the majority of the front page. I prefer the forum as well. Here, we can all post questions or spin-off threads and carry on a dynamic discussion. Blog comments are very centralized and pretty much demand the respondent to address the main post rather than other comments. When comments start referring to other comments (especially without the blockquote feature) it gets really annoying to read. All I ever use on the forum is the 40-most-recent, Vyckie. And I really don't mind the way anything is set up. It sounds like you are giving yourself one more unnecessary thing to worry about right now - just relax!
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Post by xara on May 18, 2010 11:43:57 GMT -5
I also like the forum. It could maybe stand some organizing by grouping related sections together but the comments in the blog itself were too cumbersome. I understand you may need to make some of the blog comments available but I still thing the bulk of the discussion works best on the forum.
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Post by freefromtyranny on May 18, 2010 13:58:48 GMT -5
V,
Proboards is one of the better free forum providers so you are in the right place.
Secondly, I've seen a few places that could use cleaning up. Such as I think that all of a series should be in the same place as a "parent" forum with "child" threads beneath that so if someone wants to follow all the comments from a particular series they can.
The order of the threads doesn't fit the typical way a board is set up. Usually the intro threads are at the top, etc.
All that said, I'd be more than willing to move things around and make things more easily navigated if you want hands on help like that. Or I can just give suggestions. Either way. I've been chatting on message boards for about 15 years so I've got nothing if not practical experience. lol
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Post by krwordgazer on May 18, 2010 14:33:21 GMT -5
Well, first of all I would suggest that if you have not already done so, Vyckie, you give someone moderator powers to move threads around on the forum. ;D
If I were going to do it, I'd do the following:
1. Archive or delete the Carnival Days stuff that is obsolete, and move the "Grandstand" section out of "Carnival Days" to have it's own spot in "Guest Posts." Then I'd elminate the whole Carnival Days section.
2. Consolidate NLQ Snapshots and There is No You In Qivering into one section. Also consolidate What It's All About and Look Out We've Been Thinking into one section.
3. Move all of the Mayhem On the Home Front (except the most recent) into Hot Topics, to be kept there until it's no longer "Hot."
4. Move all of the older "current" posts that already have sections for them in Guest Posts or The God Card, into that section.
Move the "Testing the Spirit of Quiverfull" thread into "Take Heart Project."
That would clean up and organize the board, and you could keep having the most current posts at the top for discussion, without having to resort to switching back to blog comments.
Hope that helps!
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Post by jemand on May 18, 2010 15:50:28 GMT -5
I don't like ideas of deleting anything!!!
What I'd do is have one "section" for all the old blog posts to be single threads in it. As it is now, you have to open several levels of organization to get to the old threads, which come one at a time. I'd have one place to move all those old threads.
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Post by Ex-Adriel on May 18, 2010 18:01:17 GMT -5
I want to register another vote for keeping the forum alive - if you want to re-activate comments on the actual blog, that's cool, but I rarely post in them. I prefer the feel of a forum.
I do think that it would be easier for the threads to be grouped or arranged by topic or series - like they are on the blog. It also would be nice for the intro section and the more active or recent posts to be up towards the top where they're easier to find.
Still - I do feel honor-bound to mention that I haven't had any problems navigating the site, and that if you don't want to mess with it, I don't think anyone is getting horrifically lost in cyberspace.
(However, if you're like me at all, organizing SOMETHING, regardless of what it is, is an excellent stress relief. "Ahh, look, the house is burning down, but by golly the socks are color-coordinated. I can breathe freely again." ) ;D
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Post by arietty on May 19, 2010 0:02:38 GMT -5
PLEASE don't turn the discussions over to the blog! That format is horrible on the eyes and terrible to follow.
Just need less sections, that's all.
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Post by rosa on May 19, 2010 15:09:44 GMT -5
Vyckie, I really like the way you rearranged the forums.
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Post by kisekileia on May 19, 2010 19:31:45 GMT -5
I like most aspects of how the forums have been arranged. However, the heading "NLQ Series and Such" doesn't make it clear that that's where the most recent posts are. Also, the headings for various posts that were in the "most recent" section now just link to "this post has been moved" notices, but the posts and their comments have not reappeared in the sections for the series they belong to--they're just gone. I really hope that the discussion threads for these posts have not been lost.
I'd like to see most of the "NLQ Series and Such" posts moved into the series in which they belong, except for the ones that are quite new and still getting comments. That would allow the "NLQ Series and Such" section to go back to being where the new posts attached to recent blog entries go, with an appropriate title such as "New in NLQ".
ETA: Okay, so now the series that have recent entries are consolidated at the top of "NLQ Series and Such", but there are also sections for each series under "Guest Posts"? That's incredibly confusing and we should get rid of it. There should be a "New in NLQ" section that has the three or four most recent posts on the blog--not the ten or twenty most recent posts. Then there should be ONE section for series, into which each post for an entry gets moved once the comments have started to peter out.
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Post by krwordgazer on May 20, 2010 0:20:47 GMT -5
I think Vyckie and Freedomfromtyranny are doing a great job so far. ;D
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Post by Vyckie D. Garrison on May 20, 2010 11:12:23 GMT -5
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Post by Vyckie D. Garrison on May 20, 2010 12:45:19 GMT -5
DANG!! ~ I just messed up and deleted the threads from the first six or so of Sierra's series!!!! There's no way to get them back either ~ I'm so sorry!
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Post by Vyckie D. Garrison on May 20, 2010 14:56:57 GMT -5
Okay ~ I think that's all the rearranging of the forum that I'm going to do for now. I hope it's not too much of a pain to find things due to this reorganization. So ~ how's it look? Hopefully, more streamlined and a lot less confusing now that I've eliminated all the sub-boards which looked like double postings of everything. Yay! Thanks so much to freefromtyranny for her help in coming up with a plan and helping to move things around. Now ~ I'm going to contact Proboards and see about recovering those threads from Sierra's posts ~ I sure hope they're not gone forever!!
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