Thread: Suggestion: Fewer forums/subforums

I wrote about this in my intro but I'll repeat it here: I lurked for about a week before I joined b/c there were probably 10 forums at that time that had zero or one threads and I thought this was a ghost town. After lurking for a few days, I saw some posts that were interesting and then saw a few friends so I registered.

Once I've registered, now it sometimes becomes a chore to figure out where to post. "Hmmmm... do I post my clip of my '67 Vibrolux + Xits X50 w/ a Collings Soco in the Vintage Amp forum or the Boutique Guitars forum or the Member Clips forum? And hey - why isn't there a Boutique Amps forum? I'd post it in that maybe since my Xits is boutique." I don't want to be a jerk and cross post but I don't quite know which forum suits that clip the best since there are so many options.

I like the tone of the forums - fun stuff - and would like to see/help it grow. My suggestion would be to collapse it down so that you alleviate those two problems. It's fine when there are 80,000 members and 20,000 posts a day - you need serious segmentation at that point - but do you need 38 forums when you have only 107 members?

As a user, I like it better when mods allow smaller and more active forums and then branch out forums as topics become popular. I think people want to post where they will get replies/discussions and an empty (or mostly empty) forum is obviously not inspiring to most. With a small user base, I'd like to see 6-10 forums personally. Any more than that and I have to browse/click too much and I won't stay involved.

Anyway, that's just like my opinion, man. :D

Yep

Time to revisit -- send me a PM with any ideas/suggestions.

Appreciate the input

L

Originally Posted by Scott Whigham

So wow - it's been six MONTHS. That's awesome - congrats on a great start to what promises to be a fun forum.

Any chance you want to revisit this consolidation topic? It's just that... well, anytime I come to the forum home page, I have to scroll, scroll, scroll to find something among the throng of either empty forums, forums with 1-2 threads, or forums without a reply/new thread in 3-4 months.

Also, if I think about submitting something, there's like this whole process I have to go through: "Wait - is this about digital modelling or recording? No, wait - it's a 67 Vibrolux being profiled with a Royer 121 into Pro Tools - maybe it's a Vintage Amp topic? Heck, I don't know what to do..."

I'm enjoying the forum - just would love for it to be a little easier on the scrolling