Topic sorting... Can we do it better?

[unhuman]

So much development is going on in the main area... Can we get it right or just go back to a single forum?

 

I check them all anyway...

[Retrospect]

Yeah I'm always going between the two. I think it might end up a single forum again anyhow. At the end of the day this forum is all about the TI whether that be the hardware guru's or the software guru's

[Albert]

I'm willing to modify the forums if there's a consensus on a "better" way to organize them.

 

..Al

[Stuart]

+1 for going back to a single forum.

[Retrospect]

If it DID go back to a single forum, might I make a suggestion that I think could help us - a better search function, that pics up a word associated with a topic title rather than any word used in all topics ... like if I typed into the search bar; "Parsec" .... it would only look for topic titles with that word, then we can find stuff much faster.

[Asmusr]

Going back to a single forum would be fine with me, but then I suggest to unpin the highscore competition.

[+Lee Stewart]

If it DID go back to a single forum, might I make a suggestion that I think could help us - a better search function, that pics up a word associated with a topic title rather than any word used in all topics ... like if I typed into the search bar; "Parsec" .... it would only look for topic titles with that word, then we can find stuff much faster.

 

You can already do that with the “advanced search” gear to the right of the search field.

 

...lee

[Retrospect]

 

You can already do that with the “advanced search” gear to the right of the search field.

 

...lee

Sweet! Cheers Lee.

[Vorticon]

I personally prefer 2 separate forums. There tends to be a lot of chatter on the general forum, and it would make it harder to see new developments at a glance. My 2 cents.

[unhuman]

I wasn't specifically advocating a single forum. But, I'd definitely prefer a single forum to development posts being in general and vice-versa.

[Willsy]

Just use more discipline and select the most appropriate forum before posting. :-)

[+Schmitzi]

Hi,

 

independent from all the question of the 2 forums we have (at the moment), and how it ends,

here my suggestion for both solutions (1 only, or 2 forums)

 

What about an additional "wiki"-subforum with wiki-like, knowledge-based threads only, and ALL pinned ?

(Or none pinned, or what ever, but wiki) - Maybe this is too hard to seperate or to surf ?

 

Duck and away....

 

xXx

[+OLD CS1]

What development stuff is going on in the main? I must be missing some stuff, then.

[Opry99er]

The Christmas demos thread was one that sort of overlapped. There was a submissions thread in the Programming forum, but the bulk was in the main thread.

 

Personally, I don't see a problem with that--- but others may disagree. I have no dog in the fight either way. I loved our forum before the split and I still love it since. The majority of hardcore dev stuff is done in the development forum... If there is some minimal overlap, does it really affect the quality of the experience?

 

The only downside I can see is a slightly increased complexity of future searches of legacy content.