Maybe this could make the forum a little more clearer

Hans von Hammer

THAT is a good idea, Hans. I am sure you've offered that as a suggestion to the mods?

 

Scroll down the Suggestions and Feedback page a bit or click here:..

/forums/t/141386.aspx

Ahh yes. I believe I remember reading that thread. It was a good idea then and is a good one now...

Hans von Hammer

. Nobody reads them in their current location, and can't even see them if the don't know about filtering...

I can't follow at all anymore... but that's mainly because I don't really care anymore...
Main reason why I don't really care anymore is because,
most people don't want any change because it's 'to hard' to adapt to something new,
how small that even is and they actually forget after 2weeks that it has been different at some point...

Anyway, I just thought this would be more usefull because,
in the aircraft section where I'm active most of the time there are barely any build reports
(somebody that is writing a report and posts pic about his build and the progress of it) to be found,
When there are any, there most of time allready gone to page 2 by the end of the day...

Also, there are so many questions that sometimes don't have anything to do with modelling at all,
Just aircraft, or allready asked like a bazillion times....
not that it bothers me that much but you know...would be more fun and as mentioned by someone else before, I'm pretty sure a lot of nice topic's are lost in the void like this...

Maybe the people of finescale can keep the old fashioned way of things right now,
but with the option to filter some things, so everybody could get what he want...
Like you post now, but you can select where it would fit best, and people have the option to use filters if they would like to...

Sure this last thing sounds complicated and all, but it's really easy...
Also Hans, maybe it sounds stupid to you, doesn't mean it is stupid.


Regards Ninetalis.

EDIT
Bondoman, filtering is like when you put different topic's into different specialised sections
Like you put put tanks in the tanks section and the aircraft into aircraft sections etc.
My idea would be to put tanks builds     with   tank builds section
                                           tank questions with   tank questions section

bondoman

Hans von Hammer:

. Nobody reads them in their current location, and can't even see them if the don't know about filtering...

 

What's filtering, seriously.....?

Without going into detail (because I can't), it's basically the settings you have in the forums as how far back posts show up on your screen in any particular hooch.  The default setting is six months, I believe,so topics and posts that're older than six months won't show up unless you tell it to... You have to click on the "Sorting and Filtering" link and what I do is change it to "Show  All"...

Also Hans, maybe it sounds stupid to you, doesn't mean it is stupid.

Just so you know, I wasn't calling eother you or your idea stupid.. I was just using an acronymn, in this case, "KISS" as a gentle reminder to not over-complicate things, regardless of what project  you're taking on... Besides.... The last format change took months to die down.. It got to the point that several well-established members "popped smoke" and left the forums permanently and some pretty huffy exchanges between between members...

Personally speaking, I was ok with the format change, and I really don't remember anything about the previous format, but I understood the frustration they felt, because I too am not fond of "change".. If things work, I don't try to fix 'em...

The first thing I'd ask myself, were I an adminstrator here, would be: "Will such a change result in more active members signing up and will it increase the traffic?", and "Will this new format make the forums easier to follow?"

If the answer to either question is "No", then I don't do it...

But speaking as an administrator on a US Military and Veteran's website forum, adding all those sub-forums is PITA to the admins and moderators..

For instance, in one forum, it's titled "Weapons" but the Sub-forums are:Rifles-Military  From Black Powder to Smokeless,then it's 1900-1945, 1946 -1990- 1991-present- Future Weapons-Civilian- etc..

Then it goes to Pistols the same way Black powder, revolvers, auto-loaders, Military/Civilian yadda, yadda, yadda.. What we ended up with was a moderator who had to check 20 subforums just to cover the rifles and pistols... This is not to mention the Shoulder-fired Anti Tank, and their various subforums, and then it was also including sub-forums for every kind of weapon ever made that an Infantryman would have to drag into battle.. It was a mess...  One moderator wasn't able to keep up with the traffic there, much less the other forums he or she was responsible for.. 

SO...,

As Scotty said to Admiral Kirk (in an otherwise forgetable Star Trek movie-scene, after he'd disabled the USS Excelsior so that it couldn't pursue the Enterprise out of spacedock) : "The more they over-do the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."...

In other words,

KISS

It's been a long time since anyone improved chess, or Avalon Hill's Waterloo. 

I'm with ya Ninetails!!

Look at sites like ARCair and Zone-Five.net. That's what he's wanting to do. It's not that difficult to navigate and I prefer it over the setup here. Oh and FSM can get sponsor threads as well as these two do.

ARCair (They have a Auto and Armor Forums as well)

http://www.arcair.com/

And Zone-Five

http://zone-five.net/index.php

Medicman71
Mine would be a tad simpler actually to be honest
But I'm happy that I'm not the only one who would consider this to be a bit better.

Regards Ninetalis

Ninetalis

Medicman71
Mine would be a tad simpler actually to be honest
But I'm happy that I'm not the only one who would consider this to be a bit better.

Regards Ninetalis

It would be different. That does not automatically mean it would be better. I've been members of this forum and ones organized along the lines of the two Medicman linked to. They both have their pros and cons. Some like this style better, others don't. 'Better' becomes a subjective matter of opinion.