2016-11-15 at 6:07 PM UTC
I suggested this on Zoklet but dumb nigger Zok didn't understand the wisdom in this, so I hope you will, Lando.
The old categories? Keep em, but they'll become the names of the forums. For example one forum is called "Official business". The second is called "General". A third could be "Entertainment". And so on. The old categories become forums.
Then each forum will have tags that correspond to the old forum names (so for example one tag under the Human Life section would be "Oh The Humanities", one could be "Left, Right and Centre" etc), so you must tag a new thread with a category in that forum.
So by default, all the threads in a forum appear together. Then you can enhancement by tag, so you can see all the Politics threads, all the Humanities threads, by clicking on their respective buttons inside the forum.
IMO the biggest problem with Solely was this, and how the community was split many times into forums. For example, I had near zero interaction with a lot of the mostly BLTC oriented posters. They had little interaction with Fragyard guys. And so on. And to each new user, these individual forums looked dead as fuck, and nobody is opening each of the 20 forums to find something they find interesting.
This way you consolidate all traffic, each forum looks more busy in aggregate, and it could even increase traffic within individual categories for real because we're actually seeing those threads, and we might see something interesting.
2016-11-15 at 6:38 PM UTC
Only slightly related: Do you guys browse the site forum by forum? I just click Current Topics and post on the first 3 pages max.
2016-11-15 at 11:42 PM UTC
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2016-11-16 at 2:17 AM UTC
Not enough people to stick to one sub forum. I only browsed one on Zoklet.
2016-11-16 at 3:25 AM UTC
Tags are gay as fuck, except when used to detail meta's various forms of mental deficiency. I will not be adding them.
I'm OK with collapsing forums into each other or leaving them but yall niggas need to fight it out amongst yourselves. I remember the endless drama on zoklet over "oh those forums shouldn't be merged" and "oh, those forums are so dead let's merge them". I don't care what it is, niggas just gotta agree.
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2016-11-16 at 4:29 AM UTC
Collapse them. I don't give a fuck if you separate them but most people would. In any case, rolling them into one would be best for traffic.
2016-11-27 at 5:27 AM UTC
Might as well just have one page of forum sorted by new. That's what I and seemingly others do anyway.
2016-11-27 at 5:28 AM UTC
And in all seriousness, change the background to space for fucks sake. It'll be cool as fuck, and give this place its own unique identity. Not the fucking totse background holy fuck how cliche. Are you literally dfg.
2016-11-27 at 2:42 PM UTC
I would like to add my vote for the space theem
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2016-11-27 at 4:40 PM UTC
That's 3 people now. Lanny keeps ignoring it.
2016-11-27 at 4:47 PM UTC
You can't ignore the power of incessant thread bumping. Don't do us like this Lanyard. Don't you fucking do us wrong.
2016-11-27 at 4:57 PM UTC
Make the space theme the default and totse an option. Make this place its own thing.
2016-11-27 at 6:28 PM UTC
Bleh, I'm not so hot on multiple themes. It just makes things more complicated without much value add.
You can use your own stylesheet override, if someone makes a stylesheet for the space theme I'll consider making it official.
2016-11-29 at 11:25 PM UTC
Zoklet had a theme?
You mean that fuckin' blue background?
Do you wanna know why the zoklet theme sucked so much? Zok was literally colorblind. And yet he wouldn't allow anyone else to make themes, the fucking weird autist.