Essencay

Join Date 01/2003

Message Board Revamp

With the coming of the New Year

I would guess that quite a few things are going to change here at WC, including layout of the site.

I know that just about everything gets posted in General Discussion vs. Help or Skinning where some stuff should get posted. What about changing when you click on the Message Board link at the top of the site, having it bring you to a page with links to General, Skinning and Help with descriptions of what types of post to use each board for? Also, move the sticky posts to this page as well.

BTW I like the current layout

just trying to think of a way to get better use out of the other two message boards and reduce the number of sticky posts here

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CerebroJD

Join Date 01/2003

Essencay, thanks for suggesting this. I had brought up a similar idea before, when the discussion was on about starting the three sections. I hadnt thought of having the sticky posts on that page! Good idea. In addition to the sticky posts, perhaps the top five threads as well? Maybe not, but I think the stickies are a must. Good work essencay!

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Çërêb®øJÐ....Thanks for your comments

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CerebroJD

Join Date 01/2003

Bump! More people need to see this.

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....give this thing a little nudge.

Okay people what do you think? If you like....say so. If you think it sucks....say so. Got another idea....say so. We're the folks using this message board, who better than us to give WC some ideas

to knock around with.

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I like the idea. It would make it a little more organized.

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Koasati

Join Date 07/2001

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There's already plans to revamp the messageboard, and expand it to include more sections.

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Sometimes I think an ignore function might be handy, although it might result in a drop in the sales of popcorn.

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Koasati

Join Date 07/2001

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sig..... I asked T-Man for an ignore button, but I don't think we're going to get one.

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Fuzzy Logic

Join Date 05/2002

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There's already plans to revamp the messageboard, and expand it to include more sections

People don't use all the ones we have now

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Koasati

Join Date 07/2001

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After the revamp, it will harder to ignore the different sections, and the Mods will be able to move misplaced threads to the section they belong.

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I have no idea what is being considered or how the programming works or what it would entail, but the ability for Admins to move threads to the more appropriate board (perhaps with a note in the thread's original place that the thread has been moved) might help encourage use of the topic specific boards.

Edited to add: ah just saw that the issue was addressed while I was dithering about with this post. Cool.

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elvee

Join Date 03/2001

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Just wondering...The proposed changes to the Message Board...I wonder if Changes will also be made to the discussions in the WC Browser?

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The simplest thing to do might to have a drop-down box appear when you click 'Message Board' showing the different sections. As it is, you go to the general on by default. Speaking for myself; I didn't even notice the other sections for a while.

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I thought I'd give this a final bump....before watching it sink off the bottom of the page

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Koasati

Join Date 07/2001

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#12 by elvee - 12/27/2003 9:04:43 PM
Just wondering...The proposed changes to the Message Board...I wonder if Changes will also be made to the discussions in the WC Browser?

I asked the same thing since I think there's no better way for someone on dialup to keep up with all the board sections. (I use SDC, but it's the same thing) The answer was yes. We will have more buttons linking to the different sections.

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