to many sections?

[craigie b]

After beinbg off for a week its blindingly obvious there has been a major shift in BCF's prganisation. There seems to be a section now for every possible off shoot of conversation.
Now I might just be being dull, but I thought it was far clearer the old way without having a specific section for Gammamanuk's love life. Made it easier to browse. Any thoughts on this?

[map]

I think chopping the funnies section makes it harder to post funnies.
Is it also more Admin work moving stuff posted in the 'wrong' section - so many choices - can't decide where to put stuff

P.S. shouldn't this be in Forum Feedback and Help section
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[phantomtek]

[craigie b]

[veeeffarr]

I think since the chop the quality of the threads has improved tenfold.

[anders]

Yes the change is good, I now mainly post in the bike sections, commenting, helping people out and complimenting users.

This is a great layout, makes it easier to keep track of things.

Thanks
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[Rob]

It depends on what way you look at it.

I generally used this as a social forum so having all the posts split up so much really makes it difficult to pop onto the board and see what's going on. It's a real pain to keep looking at each different section so it means I will generally use the board much less and will probably miss posts that would otherwise interest me.

If the forum if moving towards a complete bike-specific forum then I guess splitting it all up makes it easier to designate certain type of questions to the right area.

Unfortunatly, the big plus point of this forum rather than all the others is that it was much more social and that is what I liked about it so I see the split as a real disadvantage. If I really want specific questions answered about my bike then I would go to a different forum but still use this one for general bike chat.

Shame... but I guess everything changes.. sometimes not for the better though
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[G]

Remember you can click 'view all topics in this section' or whatever it is, and get the basis of the old 'general bike chat' and 'offtopic chat'.

[Rookie]

[G]

I always use the global 'show all', or if I'm finding stuff I've posted in 'show my posts' (or whatever it is ).

[Rookie]

Trouble is, if I'm not in the mood for bikey stuff I'll just mooch around in Offtopic or E+M, so that goes out the window.

There are definitely some great advantages to the new layout, but it's all to be taken with a pinch of salt I think; it ain't perfik.

[Bendy]

I just wish you could exclude 'found on the net' from 'view all, cos I don't want to read that forum - twas easier to ignore before.

I also wish people would read the 'before you post' sticky in Show & Tell - it's supposed to be epic tales, detailled projects, interesting reads, not a couple of snaps and one sentence.

[Rookie]

[G]

General bike chat, if it doesn't fit in anything else and is about bikes, I would presume.

[Silver]

[craigie b]

A good solution might be to cut down the off topic sections but leave the bike chat sections divided up. The 'off topic' sections were really just social areas with no real need to be divided up and as pointed out there is many topics which can easily fit in multiple categories!

[Bendy]

Use the offtopic 'view all topics' and that's exactly what you get.

[craigie b]

Aaaaah, but i can't create a new topic without firstly choosing what section mostly befits it

[byke95]

I still think it was a good move by Korn, shows good parenting skills i.e. if the kids are fighting a lot (old off topic section) then simply separate them. The good old fashioned distraction and redirection technique!

There does seem to by much less pointless arguments this last week or so...