Forum Revamp, Attempt 4. Options

[*Alysia*]

It's been discussed numerous times before, each time with less enthusiasm, with people just throwing out their suggestions and disappearing. Could we DISCUSS how people generally want to organize things before suggesting any specific organization?

I think there's been a general discontentment about the abruptly changed cB4 Resource Center, especially the showcase, which everyone has pretty much agreed NEEDS to be further organized because nobody wants to venture into that mess. In any case, should the parent forums be the sites themselves?

(e.g.:
Myspace
> Help
> Showcase
Xanga
> Help
> Showcase
etc.)

Or should the parent forums be the categories?

(e.g.:
Help
> Myspace
> Xanga
> Livejournal
> Blogger
> Website
> Movable Type
> Wordpress
> Friendster
> Hi5
Showcase
> Graphics
> Myspace
> Xanga
> Livejournal
> Blogger
etc.)

I know that personally I don't like that the Webmasters' Corner/Designers' Café/Developers' Cubicle are still open to questions. The Designers' Café was originally made so that there was a forum for DISCUSSION about designing, but now it's just turned into another help forum.

As for the Community Center organization, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with it per se, but it is just a TAD stale, with it having been essentially the same with only minor changes throughout cB history. There are, I think we can agree, too many subforums within interests that people don't bother going there, though.

[*Insurmountable*]

I really missed the old organization of the resource center. It takes some getting use to but I did like how it was organized on how the showcase and help was under myspace and same and so forth for livejournal, xanga, etc.

Also yea I thought the designers cafe was more for discussion not some huge help center. I guess with this newer version we lost a lot of positive things about the resource center. I suppose we gained some new things but of course I feel like their not getting used very much

I personally think the request forum should be brought back in some ways. In others not so much just because when we had them last time almost all topics ended up closed and never reopened and the ones that didn't have to be closed would just sit there...so if we did bring it back I think we shouldn't have any requirements to make requests...and it would just be like a new forum like the Official members lounge was just made (although in community, this would be in resource) and just name it Requests and its just a plain forum and we could have one pinned topic or like little fill out forms for each time of request.