Montana's Message To The Community

[Aj_habfan]

Jay520 said:

Dr.Grass said:
A big reasons so many threads die is because only 16 are shown on the VGChartz home page.

I was very negative about the decrease in threads shown since the (current) redesign. I don't go to 'Gamerconnect' and look for threads, I want them to pop up on the main page. Duh.

The old days of Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft/Music/etc. sections ALL being displayed on the MAIN page will have a huge impact. I mean, people spend 90% of their time on the forums, yet only like 5% of the main page is dedicated to forums.

Yeah, that's bothered me also. When a thread gets bumped to the second page, the activity of that thread drops considerably. People don't really care much to load the next page to find a thread. I know I've done this myself too. I rarely click on page 2 to find a thread that may interest me. I think a larger front page would help remedy this issue by giving a larger amount of threads to be successful before being doomed to the 2nd page.

Or like we had it in 3.0, where you filter the Hot Topics with a click. So there would be general hot topics, then you could click the Sony tab for example, and you'd be given a list of all the top threads in just the Sony section. I loved this setup.

EDIT: Oops that was what he was saying, lol. 

I also rarely check the second page of activity, unless it's late at night with nobody posting. But the site redesign is coming up, and ioi talked about one of the split areas being much simpler and having a community feeling similar to when the site first started, so that could be the solution.