The creativity boards haven't gotten that much activity for a while. Maybe we could merge those together as one big general creativity board, with a child board for music or art if needed.
The creativity boards haven't gotten that much activity for a while. Maybe we could merge those together as one big general creativity board, with a child board for music or art if needed.
I think the creativity board is fine because they all have and serve a specific/simple purpose.
The creativity boards haven't gotten that much activity for a while. Maybe we could merge those together as one big general creativity board, with a child board for music or art if needed.
I think the creativity board is fine because they all have and serve a specific/simple purpose.
What if we made the "anything else" board the main creativity board with child boards for art, music, and literature? As it is right now it just feels silly to have a whole creativity category when there's barely a page of new posts between them.
The creativity boards haven't gotten that much activity for a while. Maybe we could merge those together as one big general creativity board, with a child board for music or art if needed.
I think the creativity board is fine because they all have and serve a specific/simple purpose.
I did consider recommending merging the creativity boards, but I think being able to browse categorically in this case is more important. I don't like the idea of having them made into subforums of Everything Else either, because that understates the significance of the child boards and arbitrarily gives Everything Else more priority.
Parent boards do have priority in the interface over child boards; they're larger and more prominent.I did consider recommending merging the creativity boards, but I think being able to browse categorically in this case is more important. I don't like the idea of having them made into subforums of Everything Else either, because that understates the significance of the child boards and arbitrarily gives Everything Else more priority.
It doesn't mean it has more priority, it just means it's nonspecific. Look at the Scripts board. The child boards for different script databases are arguably more important, but they're all underneath the Scripts board, which is just a place to request a script or compatibility fix. They'd still be categorized.
Edit: Let me clarify that by "make 'everything else' the main board", I meant that it would be a general creativity board with the everything else category absorbed into it.
Agreed. This is how I think I'd do it:
General Chat - Merged from: General Chat, In The News, Elitist Debate, Community, Ask a Stereotype, Forum Games
Sub Forums: Welcome, Bean Bags
Why not? Having one broad General board works for forums way more active than RMRK, such as TIGSource (which only has General and Video Games for non-gamedev discussion).Agreed. This is how I think I'd do it:
General Chat - Merged from: General Chat, In The News, Elitist Debate, Community, Ask a Stereotype, Forum Games
Sub Forums: Welcome, Bean Bags
Mm, I don't think a single board should be used for such a wide variety of potential topics.
General Chat and Community can be easily merged, as can Elitist Debate and In The News. Child boards are a bit more difficult to place, but Introduction and Bean Bags wouldn't fit anywhere else other than in the General Chat board.
I think The Sewers should be separate from General.My objections to it are more about maintaining tradition than anything else. I don't care either way and I think most people would be in favor of keeping it.
I don't like it. Creativity should still be separate like it is. Having a parent board for those just results in an empty parent board. I also don't think Video Games needs to be a child board of Entertainment so much as it should just be merged with it. RMRK Advanced makes more sense where it is too since it's RPG Maker-related. Going off of that there's no need for a Private Boards group but I guess it'd be fine to just throw our miscellanea there if everyone else likes it.
I don't think ask a stereotype or in the news is really needed anyway. And I think we all want to see forum games gone. :anski2:
Why do we have to move Creativity at all? With all of the other merging and cleaning up that will be done the boards will already be a lot more organized/easier to use. I think Creativity should stay as it is. I like being able to access it quickly and easy when I want to find something. And it works as a stand alone category because of what it -is-.I'm starting to agree with this. I think we'd be better off waiting and seeing if the creativityforums need a revamp after we sort all the other stuff into better spots
I think "Games and Entertainment" would work well
if we wanted we could even make forumgames a child board or something if we decide to keep it around.
News and Debate will just become the "everyone bitches about politics, world news and religion boards" like the respective boards are now. but then, i've never liked those two boards so i should have no say in stuffing them into a tiny corner to die.
As I've said on other occasions, I would be happy if some things were not only unspeakable but also non-existent.
As I've said on other occasions, I would be happy if some things were not only unspeakable but also non-existent.
It's gone :)
I see no reason for the Polling Booth to be a child board of Board Support/Feedback.
I also like keeping Creativity as a stand alone category. If we were to change it, I'd say we could just make it a single board without children under RMRK General, and have all the topics alongside one another.
I haven't been here as long as everyone else, but having been here since 2006 I can at least note that most of the boards came about because there was a need for them.still it's one of those things, needs always change over time
. I can understand reorganizing some of them under parent boards, but once we start merging boards together I get the feeling we're just going to run into the same problem that warranted creating those boards to begin with.we might but we might also find a better way to deal with those problems rather than just making yet another subforum to eventually abandon.
Especially in terms of the creative boards and the entertainment ones.That's the main reason we shouldn't fuck with the creativity boards, the different artistic disciplines are different enough that having them all in one parent board would make it hard navigate.
But I also don't really think anyone is posting enough anymore for it to make much of a difference either way, so take it or leave it.Which is exactly the reason the forums should change a bit. Activity isn't just dying because we locked sign ups or because the official enterbrain forums or whatever are more popular now. it's dying off because we aren't pruning unneeded stuff and pushing new members and lurkers to get engaged in the community.
That's the main reason we shouldn't fuck with the creativity boards, the different artistic disciplines are different enough that having them all in one parent board would make it hard navigate
I'm for the idea of merging New and Substantial projects together into WIP Projects.
I hate to say it, but it's similar to marketing RMRK. So many of our boards look DEAD AND INACTIVE it pushes lurkers away from posting and we want more activity.
For merging Substantial and New Projects, I was thinking we should make that the basic Projects Board and have Finished Projects be a child Board, rather than the other way around. Any objections? If we do it the other way around, what should we call it? I think "Projects in Progress" might work, but I would be open to suggestions.
I'd also suggest raising the post count requirement for trading and poster board.
Why don't you guys change your boards to like what ours is :mad:
I like that finished projects is the root section, because it gives more exposure to work that people have completed.
IMHO What Are You Eating?, Signature And Avatar Rating, and Post Your Desktop could all be unstickied. I'm torn on Post Your Picture. This would leave RMRK Wiki, the IRC chatlogs thread, and RMRK Member Factfile stickied. Post Your Picture kinda fits in with the theme I was going for here. Which is basically "Get to know RMRK and it's members" Since all of those things showcase different facets of our personalities. And the Post Your Picture thread would give you an idea of what the person may look like. But then I am probably just over thinking. And it isn't like every single RMRK member uses all of those things. (or any of them)
I vote for keeping every sticky except RMRK Wiki, which could just be made into an article on the wiki, if it isn't already. There's a very prominent link in RMRK's footer now anyway.
Also maybe Post Your Desktop could be moved to Computing & Technology.
Also maybe Post Your Desktop could be moved to Computing & Technology.That could work, since it's about computer desktops, obviously, and from what I've seen, some of the desktops people here have are pretty nicely designed, and some others who don't personalize often could ask for tips on doing so.
I don't like the idea of bean bags as it's own board simply because it's kinda personal sometimes and it really doesn't need to be at the forefront of the forum.I missed this but I completely agree.