New Forum Suggestions

[Keith]

As you can see there aren't that many forum at present.

What forums do you think should be added and why?

[Patrick]

I think it has plenty of forums. Can always add more as demand requires.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by Patrick

Can always add more as demand requires.

Very true Patrick. It just seems as though I'm not covering the basics enough yet. I'm sure when I get a few more members they'll let me know what forums I'm missing (if any).

[SaintDog]

I would start small and work your way up, if you have too many open forums, others may think it to be a ghost-mine and that is certainly not the impression you want to give . Let time guide you and as you think of new ones, write them down or post them and see what the feedback is at the time.

[Patrick]

Welcome to the site, SaintDog.

[Neo]

You could install the scropt from w3reports.com that automaticall posts nwes in a sub-forum of your site.

[Keith]

Thanks for your suggestion Neo.

I had the news feed from w3reports in the sidebar on the right but I disabled it last night as a test to see if it helped load times. I thought about doing what you suggested but didn't like the idea of having loads of news related threads showing up on the New Posts search results.

I might add it at some stage in the future and try and exclude them from the results pages.

P.S. My avatar would suit your username

[jmpsmash]

instead of everything else going into the off-topic, there tend to be quite a bit of technical discussions, say programming, computers, etc. maybe a single forum for those?

due to the nature of the audience, that one extra forum will be popular and then the community in general won't look like a bunch of slackers who only chit-chat around....

[Neo]

Hi Keith sorry had been away for a while.

Well, I'm happy with the one on my site . Show's that I have something else other than hex codes moving up and down

[Keith]

Originally Posted by jmpsmash

instead of everything else going into the off-topic, there tend to be quite a bit of technical discussions, say programming, computers, etc. maybe a single forum for those?

due to the nature of the audience, that one extra forum will be popular and then the community in general won't look like a bunch of slackers who only chit-chat around....

Thanks for your suggestions jmpsmash.

The only bad thing about adding new forums to a new community is that it usually gives the idea that the place is dead because the thread and post count for each individual forum is very low.

I think it would be better to add only one new forum to cover all those different topics. What do you think?

[apthost]

For starters, I would like to see some discussion here on dedicated servers. Who has good deals and what makes them good etc.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by apthost

For starters, I would like to see some discussion here on dedicated servers. Who has good deals and what makes them good etc.

I'll look into it Thanks for your suggestion.

[GuitarCrazyo]

Good news but I wonder if the "Website Reviews" section should now exclude reviews of the content and just concentrate on the look and workings of the site instead?

[griemia09]

This is a wonderful idea as we all support each other in many way and having this new forum would allow us to support each other in even more ways.