I think 2 is too limiting. You might as well not do it. I prefer something along the lines of Frogboy's 6 or so categories and no more than that.

Don't know if those stats are correct Job., but I'll agree with ya anyway.If there are to many, I won't be looking at most of them if that matters or not.

I can see the crossposters spamming each section already...

personal icons?
nah you don't want to add those here cuz I can be very annoying w/ bouncy coffee cups and all that stuff... hehe

hmmmm The way we expanded our boards was more as needed. Suddenly we found ourselves with many, many of a certain kind of post and so we made a board for that. Months later, we had swarms of another kind of things and so we made a board for that. That also gave our members time to get used to the new format.

Graphic intensive html friendly boards can be fast if you work them right. The thing to consider is that you need to figure how someone is going to be "charged" for the uploads. In MSN it was ok since initially hotmail accounts all included 30 mbs space. Essentially, once people start uploading you will be hit with a big "bill" unless you find a way to cap it and make folks accountable for the uploads.

Moderation of porn uploads is something that got out of hand. I wish I had never, ever seen some of the things I have. I think accountability would not only help contain the storage problems, but would also curtail much of that. Lately it has not been such a problem.

Our boards display the original and 15 posts at a time. You page back 15 at a time or can go to the initial response ad page forward 15 at a time. That significantly decreased the download time allowing more use of graphics.

As long as you have the oprion to view all of the most recent posts I think it is a decent idea

JamMeister33 - Let's keep it as simple as possible, too many categories become too confusing to the uninitiated...

agreed

perhaps even default the board to not using categories? most posters seem to prefer the single list view


feline *wonders*
"the uninitiated"

feline starts thinking about initiation ceremonies involving chocolate!

Feline - I can't remember the last time I viewed this board through IE. SB doesn't (at least not that I've seen) go to the last message in a thread. I see your point here.

By personal icons, I'm not talking about the ones that Doreen, Chinagirl and Boxxi have. Those are pretty cool. But if you go to the Winamp boards (a thing I avoid almost as religiously as the marathon), you got all kinds of "dancing coffee cups" and the like. Big damn cups at that. That's the kind of thing I'd like to avoid here.

Agreed re the numbering - especially useful in tracking the last message read in a long thread.

Hmmm what? Winamp boards have dancing coffee cups?
Doreen goes run over there! hehe
oh don't worry Chef wincusto will never have big dancing coffee cups, the atmosphere here is much too conservative for that, it would not fit in here at all...
(actually I was shocked we even got the lil icons but those don't really throw the site out of it's charactor too much)

maybe if the new changes are incorporated and members don't want sections/catagories or whatever happens, those could be checked off in the members profile preferences? so they can have the board as it was originally? that's an idea, then you can please everyone that way?

Well, maybe just little user-icons?

I do like the idea of threaded threads and numbered posts.

"as for jumping up and down on you, feline thinks it was fun, so will do some more later"