Forum is too fragmented

[Guest rwalton159]

With more and more owners of the SF using this excellent site, post topics are being lost and I think it would be an idea to catergorize them under types of post i.e. Help, Roms, Themes, Apps etc

Just an idea

Happy New Year

[Guest Frankish]

Do you mean sub forums?

[Guest rwalton159]

Yes, sub forums.

It would be helpful - its a bit of a minefield at present.

[Guest That-Guy]

How about an option to add a tag to the front of a post title like:

[ROM] Some amazing new ROM

or

[HELP] My phone has just blown up

Most forum software has a plugin to do this, then a user can just select one from a drop down next to the title field when posting :unsure:

[Guest zurpher]

How about an option to add a tag to the front of a post title like:

[ROM] Some amazing new ROM

or

[HELP] My phone has just blown up

Most forum software has a plugin to do this, then a user can just select one from a drop down next to the title field when posting :unsure:

I like the idea but some will still be too lazy to properly look for the information they need.

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

i think the idea of sub forums is the best

[Newbies]

[Roms]

[Apps]

[Hardware]

and so on

[Guest Stuart_f]

Just delete/merge all the duplicate threads and temp ban anyone that doesn't use search before posting and the problem goes away. It's hard to find somthing now because of all the lazy muppets that just create threads to ask something that's been covered 5 times already.

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

Just delete/merge all the duplicate threads and temp ban anyone that doesn't use search before posting and the problem goes away. It's hard to find somthing now because of all the lazy muppets that just create threads to ask something that's been covered 5 times already.

and the 3 billion topics which begin by [help me please .........]

[Guest rayray31]

Just delete/merge all the duplicate threads and temp ban anyone that doesn't use search before posting and the problem goes away. It's hard to find somthing now because of all the lazy muppets that just create threads to ask something that's been covered 5 times already.

I'd like to think that that issue would disappear with better organisation. Sub-forums or tags are a good idea.

[Guest rayraven]

+1 for more sub-forums.

[Guest veehexx]

sub forums.

95% of the roms already have [ROM] tag. the other one has [lcd/oled] B)

with that alone, the rest should mostly be help :unsure:

i'd say this forum area stays as help, and we then have subforums for roms, apps//themes, and maybe a 3rd for something else.

[Guest lordofangels]

+1 for sub forums, the pinned topics need sorting too.

Would be better with a seperate sub forum for

Themes

Rom's

Help

[Guest ergo911]

+1 for sub forums also

Edited January 1, 2011 by ergo911

[Guest Thermostat9]

I like the idea but some will still be too lazy to properly look for the information they need.

I'm a newbie and have I've been looking lately and it is not necessarily 'lazyness' that stops people looking for what they need.

To someone who does not follow every thread for weeks it IS very confusing to see terminology used in varying ways, listings to threads that are older than the current incarnation and there is a lack of a way to navigate round the forum. The Wiki could be useful but that is not very up to date either.

[Guest That-Guy]

There are a lot of people still waiting for modaco to implement a mobile version of this site using TapaTalk or Forum Runner so wouldn't get your hopes up B)

Still love this site though :unsure:

[Guest ololizoz]

And there should be a FAQ

[Guest Arr Too]

Sub-forums are certainly possible, I think, and a few key ones would be welcomed (it'd be nice to have a developers area for ROMs that aren't stable or suitable for newbies).

Were we aware that this forum is the biggest one on MoDaCo? 2500 topics! Perhaps that might afford it some special attention?

Although my biggest bugbear is the "Similar Topics" bit at the bottom of the page on each topic -- this gathers topics from the whole MoDaCo site, which I'm sure is the cause of people either posting about the Dell Streak (say) or flashing the wrong ROM on their phone!

[Guest rwalton159]

bmp

[Guest NightSt@lk3r]

Another +1 for sub forums.

[Guest rayraven]

@OP, can you add a poll to the thread?

[Guest Ash_P]

I'm a newbie and have I've been looking lately and it is not necessarily 'lazyness' that stops people looking for what they need.

To someone who does not follow every thread for weeks it IS very confusing to see terminology used in varying ways, listings to threads that are older than the current incarnation and there is a lack of a way to navigate round the forum. The Wiki could be useful but that is not very up to date either.

If you know the Wiki is not uptodate - then why don't you click Edit and update it?

But +1 for sub forums, I'm getting very bored of seeing the same old quesions day in day out. A newbie subforum would certainly help.

[Guest Stuart_f]

A newbie subforum would certainly help.

I wish this would work but the problem with idiots (I use the term quite seperately from real newbies who deserve help) is that they don't read before they post. We have sticky threads and a search feature on the forum now. If the idiots who create the multiple threads actually used these features then 90% of the useless threads would not exist.

There's no harm to add a bit of chlorine to the gene-pool every now and then. Hand out a few bans and people would suddely learn to read before spamming.

[Guest rayraven]

^Not really, most people who make such threads are really newbies, who dont know a lot and are confused easily.

They assume making a thread with their specific issue will help, even though it just might be something who is a regular on the forum is aware of.

Instead of banning such people and not helping them, a seperate sub-forum will keep the clutter out and people who actually want to help can still reply.

[Guest Stuart_f]

It's worth a try but I reserve the right to say "I told you so" :unsure:

[Guest Arr Too]

You'll never stop people making posts that many would see as irrelevant or already answered elsewhere (many times!). All you can do is reduce the occurrence by making it as easy as possible for people to find the information they want, or for others to easily link to it. I think a bit of restructuring here would help a lot, since we have a lot of postings and (at present) the newbie "Help!" topics have to sit alongside the "Who wants to test this new thing and maybe brick their Blade?" dev topics.