18 Feb 2006: Forum Changes

[Korn]

As you've probably already noticed a number of new forums have sprung up overnight, and some old ones have vanished. This was done in an attempt to make BCF easier to read and better manage the forum's ever-growing amount of traffic. The major changes are as follows:

New Biking News / Show & Tell forums
These two forums have been created to house threads which previously would have gotten lost in high posting turnover of General Bike Chat.

Offtopic Chat has been split up
To try and improve the signal/noise ratio in Offtopic I have split it into several smaller forums covering the main areas of discussion.

View all topics in this section
Alongside the changes mentioned above, new links have been added to allow you to view all posts in a section on one page, should you want to read absolutely everything.

Photos & Videos forums removed
These two forums have been merged into General Bike Chat, with the exception of people's original video creations and project photo pages, which have gone to Show & Tell.

Offtopic Chat is now being pruned
To improve forum performance old threads from the Offtopic section will now be periodically removed. This will only happen to threads which have been abandoned; older long-running threads are not in danger of being pruned as long as they remain active.
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[JonB]

Great changes here!
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[loply]

Shame about the videos forum being removed, that was the most common forum I checked

I know this is just personal oppinion, and perhaps your changes are related to forum performance etc, but to me it seems silly to split the forum up into so many subforums... Who will really bother to post an OT thread in "Current Affairs" rather than "General Banter"?

And surely discussing the latest biking news should just fall into general chat, rather than its own forum? There arent enough threads discussing current biking news stories to warrant a full forum for it.

Just makes it harder to navigate and find threads IMHO.
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[Flip]

I can live with it (it's actually starting to make sense to me now) but I'd like a photo & vid section again (in the bike section).

[sickpup]

[G]

Sorry, I'm not talking about spam/abuse etc, I'm talking about offtopic chat being 'pruned'.

If a specific thread is removed, then it's done for a reason, so would be counter productive to keep it, I appreciate.