Lara wrote: [quote author=brell link=1216650141/60#61 date=1217947305][quote author=Lara link=1216650141/45#54 date=1217361125]Many message boards have a main page, and then some sub pages. What do the admins think about changing the board so we have the following main pages?
- Announcements
- Midnight Mansion Game
- Expansion Pack
- Custom Mansions Area
- Free Chat
But these already are our main pages !? We call them categories. Inside the categories there are the boards. What you are asking is that we hide the boards within the categories. I don't think that is possible and I am sure that it would take more time for people to search the boards if we did that.
Maybe it is a case of the board taking up too much space? So when a user views the page it looks visually overwhelming. What about making the font sizes smaller for the 'explanation' bit? That way each forum won't take up so much space in the web browser.
That might be an idea - but not for those with bad vision.
Lara wrote: Also, do we really need the 'CM Sub-forum' visible to everyone if we can't access it?
As far as Freddy and I can see it must be visible. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to download the mansions. But we will check once again.
Lara wrote: In addition, I would vote yay for just having one 'Talk' forum with a single thread inside for each custom mansion. People don't really need more than one thread per mansion. It would just take a little moderation to remind people to not create a number of threads for one mansion. I think that would improve the tidyness of the board a great deal.
There is no way to move posts from one thread to other within a board. This is the third MM forum and in no case people have limited their CM talk to one thread per mansion. I am not going to delete posts just because they are not in the correct thread.
We have separate boards for the 5 newest mansions now and one for Catacombs. When a new mansion is released a new board is added for that mansion and the oldest of the 5 is deleted and the threads in that board are moved to Talk. This is done:
1. Because people were complaining about having difficulties finding the threads about the mansions
2. So people can more easily find that there are new mansions around
3. Because most CM talk is about new mansions and we want people to find the threads easily.
In my and Freddy's opinion it is much easier for people to find what they are looking for with more boards than less. Actually I know that Freddy would like to have a separate board for each original and each custom mansion! There must be some compromise between those who want more and those who want less.
Anyway, we will check whether we can shrink the fonts without
shrinking
the readability for those who are less sighted (including me) and whether we can cut off the boards within the announcements category.
One more thing. It has been good to have the opinions of many of the forum members about the layout and looks of our forum, although some misunderstanding has occurred, whichFreddy and I have hopefully been able to correct. But please bear in mind that the admins are the captains - they have the final word in this matter.
