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Potential Changes to gamrConnect - Your Feedback Please

Option 1 only 24 29.63%
 
Option 2 only 20 24.69%
 
Both of them 10 12.35%
 
Neither of them 21 25.93%
 
Other (post your own idea) 6 7.41%
 
Total:81
Slimebeast on 24 July 2010
makingmusic476 said:
ioi said:

It's a tough balance because the other train of thought is what about someone who creates a thread about a weapons list in some obscure fps? It is likely to just get lost under a stampede of other threads unless it has somewhere to reside, a sub forum where you can actually filter down and go to find threads about a specific topic.

I agree that in some ways one global forum is best but I can also see the calls for more and more sub-forums to direct discussion in certain directions and give users different "homes". The same can be said for the idea of creating groups, possibly each with seperate discussion functionality...

On the other side of the coin, if a certain sub forum isn't very popular, any threads posted therein, no matter how interesting, will be affected by the lack of traffic to that forum.  We already have this issue with the PC forum.  The forum is generally dead, so much so that even the PC gamers on this site (like me) rarely check it.  Because of this, the occasional topic that is posted there only survives as long as it remains in Hot Topics, and the people that check their preferred forums individually usually don't even see it.

This is a strong argument, at least from my personal perspective. I love the PC and discussing PC games but I always find it useless to make lengthy posts in the PC section because it's nearly dead. Or I actually sometimes invest time into a lenghty post there but afterwards end up feeling bad because no one read it or replied to it lol.



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Slimebeast on 24 July 2010
Machina said:

Our community is highly imbalanced. To generalise things a little: we have next to no PC activity, a small amount of 360, and then loads of PS3 and Wii. By removing the PC and 360 forums you condemn the threads that are created in those forums at the moment, to the same pool as PS3 and Wii under your idea, where they will be swamped and quickly bumped down.

*cringes* This scenario would be even worse for a PC gamer like me!

I don't know what to believe.



sad.man.loves.vgc on 24 July 2010

vgc 2 forums were perefect, bring it back as it was :)



SamuelRSmith on 24 July 2010

@mmusic

Not that I know of, it's an idea I came up with. I'm probably not the first person to have this idea, but I don't know any examples, I'm afraid.

I would write an example mock-up, but I haven't any tools at my disposal atm



Seece on 24 July 2010

We're not gaf, what's the obsession with wanting to merge the forums, which poses no positives whatsoever, just negatives.

More trolling, MS news being lost under the sea of Sony/Nintend threads, not being able to find threads already created, I could go on ..



 

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Khuutra on 24 July 2010

Is uh

Is there a chance we could set how many topics display when we look at a particular forum?



Slimebeast on 24 July 2010
Khuutra said:

Is uh

Is there a chance we could set how many topics display when we look at a particular forum?

Why would u wanna do that? Today the topics shown on every first page fill about two whole screens, u aint happy with that?



Zedex on 24 July 2010
Mojo said:

I personally don't use the forums for non-gaming discussions, so I have no real opinion on the 1st option. The 2nd option sounds more complicated that it needs to be. It would be great if you could bring back different coloured fonts for different gaming systems. That is a great way to organize forums.


I completely agree I loved the old layout in vgchartz



9009pc on 24 July 2010

I like kitler's idea. 

about dead forums: don't know if this would help much but is there a way to make the most recent thread in the least visited forum last longer on the hot topics giving it more of a chance to be seen.



correct me if I am wrong
stop me if I am bias
I love a good civilised debate (but only if we can learn something).

 

Rainbird on 25 July 2010

I was gonna suggest something along the lines of what kitler did, with big forums but with each thread having tags attached. A certain level of tags would be required ('Off-topic', 'Nintendo', 'Sales', etc.), but you could add more if you wanted ('Kinect', 'Xbox', 'SEGA', etc.), and then we could sort them however we like. Samuel's suggestion was also really nice.

I don't really like the option two you've presented, but I'm glad something is being done. Option one could be good, I don't know.