When posting a new thread, I realise it can sometimes be difficult to find the "right" forum for it.
So in an effort to make this easier, I'd like to make further changes to the forum layout, naming and organisation.
I have a couple of basic principles:
- A smaller number of forums will make it easier to navigate and post new threads
- Forum names should be relatively short, but long enough to convey the true meaning
- We should try to avoid "sub-forums", i.e. forums within forums, such as e.g. the New Vegetarians' Help Desk forum within The Vegetarian Forum.
These are some of my current more concrete thoughts on the changes I'd like to make:
- New Vegetarians' Help Desk gets merged into Ask Us A Question!
- Food & Drink is renamed to The Kitchen. (Which makes sense since we also have The Lounge.)
- The Recipes sub-forums are merged into Recipes, and thread prefixes are used to replace the old forum names. This makes it possible to have a recipe in multiple "categories" since a thread can have multiple prefixes. (I'm not 100% sure I want to do this, but maybe.)
- Vegan Package Exchanges is merged into The Vegan Forum, gets a thread prefix called Package Exchange.
- Festivities & Special Occasions is merged into another forum (not sure which yet ...), gets a thread prefix.
- Home & Garden is renamed to Garden & DIY
- Arts & Crafts are renamed to The Hobby Room. (Maybe. Or maybe not?)
- All the forums in the Animals category are merged, thread prefixes are used instead of the old forum names.
- The Globetrotting category is removed, and the forums within it are merged into one called Local & Travel or something like that. Thread prefixes will be used instead of the old forum names. France gets a "FR" thread prefix.
Please let me know what you think!
So in an effort to make this easier, I'd like to make further changes to the forum layout, naming and organisation.
I have a couple of basic principles:
- A smaller number of forums will make it easier to navigate and post new threads
- Forum names should be relatively short, but long enough to convey the true meaning
- We should try to avoid "sub-forums", i.e. forums within forums, such as e.g. the New Vegetarians' Help Desk forum within The Vegetarian Forum.
These are some of my current more concrete thoughts on the changes I'd like to make:
- New Vegetarians' Help Desk gets merged into Ask Us A Question!
- Food & Drink is renamed to The Kitchen. (Which makes sense since we also have The Lounge.)
- The Recipes sub-forums are merged into Recipes, and thread prefixes are used to replace the old forum names. This makes it possible to have a recipe in multiple "categories" since a thread can have multiple prefixes. (I'm not 100% sure I want to do this, but maybe.)
- Vegan Package Exchanges is merged into The Vegan Forum, gets a thread prefix called Package Exchange.
- Festivities & Special Occasions is merged into another forum (not sure which yet ...), gets a thread prefix.
- Home & Garden is renamed to Garden & DIY
- Arts & Crafts are renamed to The Hobby Room. (Maybe. Or maybe not?)
- All the forums in the Animals category are merged, thread prefixes are used instead of the old forum names.
- The Globetrotting category is removed, and the forums within it are merged into one called Local & Travel or something like that. Thread prefixes will be used instead of the old forum names. France gets a "FR" thread prefix.
Please let me know what you think!
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