ioi said:
Do we even need the forums to be separate? The thought behind this was that we can split conversations and allow people to talk to people about a specific subject in some kind of shielded environment but really the community was never big enough to support this so it just seems to have stifled conversation in reality. My idea would be that all threads would be in one forum and we could use a tag / search to find specific ones of interest? |
I think that having subforums is a good thing. Back on VGC 3.0/4.0 (or whatever you want to call them), I would always use the subforums to find threads that I wanted to see, and ignore the topics I wasn't interested in. Now, with extra clicking to get to subforums, I mostly just browse the hot topics and I miss a lot of threads. The change to make the subforums harder to access (no more drop down menu) actually caused me to post less for quite a while, because I'm lazy and I didn't want to bother loading extra pages to switch between subforums.
For subforums, I'd be fine with Gaming (maybe split by consoles/PC&other), Sales, Website, and Off Topic. If you do keep subforums, I'd really love to see some sort of drop down menu like the site used to have so that I don't have to load a new page to see the list. And please keep the Forum Buddy. I always miss having one when I visit other forums.
Also, I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but I would love to see spoiler tags. If we can't get those, I'd at least like to see the ability to change text/background colours like we used to have, since I used those a lot to hide spoilers.
About a like button; the only reason I'd like to see one is so people don't post "Yes" or "I agree" or whatever, and spam threads.
