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[radhikaeatsraman]

You know what? f**k cB3. cB is perfectly fine without all this reorganization and crap. Some of our most promising subforums were deleted because of lovely Jusun. We did not need to rid ourselves of the Health, Cars or Current Events forums. I know Michael is trying to appease everyone by saying that they may come back, but let's face it; unless we start something, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO COME BACK. Jusun doesn't even come on these forums anymore; why the f**k is he making the decisions? Okay, he founded the site. That's all fine and dandy, but what about what the active members want? I unregistered because createBlog was turning into a bunch of rule Nazis and ass kissers.

But I actually gave a damn and came back for this one post. We're not asking for these forums back, we're DEMANDING them back, ¿comprende? You talk this little reorganization thing to death, I don't care. But we demand those subforums back.

-Radhika

[yo pusha]

still, there was no complaint before elba requested one. and the only reason i "supported" it was because elba wouldnt stop pming me until i posted in there. hahah

I disagree. The Lounge was still fairly active; besides, there's nothing wrong with keeping the active topics to the first one or two pages of the forum. Most users are not likely to scan much farther back for topics.

nowhere as active as before the interests subforums were created. like jusun said, you used to have to scroll 3 or 4 pages before finding a post you created the day before. now, posts stay on the first page for more than a week without any activity in there.

Writing forum can belong to relationship forum, you know. Most writing pieces deals with people's emotions and life.

not jasons raps haha

[*mipadi*]

nowhere as active as before the interests subforums were created. like jusun said, you used to have to scroll 3 or 4 pages before finding a post you created the day before. now, posts stay on the first page for more than a week without any activity in there.

Assuming that is true, is that a bad thing? Does that not make topics easier to find? That is not an indication that activity is down; it is merely an indication is has become more localized. Click on the "View new posts" or "Today's active topics" link sometime—you'll see pages and pages of active discussion, stored nicely in a single dynamic virtual forum. That is good user interface design.

But that is assuming the truth of your statement, which I question. I often found myself having to look back onto the second or even third page for the previous day's topics, and sometimes even topics from the same day were pushed onto the second page.

Sure, now The Lounge appears to have more discussion, because going back several pages will still reveal topics from the same day or the day before. But is this a good thing? No, because people are still not likely to move beyond the first page, so only the top page of conversations are being discussed. In other words, I'd argue that there is potentially less activity now, since threads quickly get shoved to the second or even third page, and they're a lot harder to find.