First of all, if this suggestion would create a lot of work, feel free to disregard it.
Anyway, the rearrangement of the forums has been discussed before...and most common concern has been the length of the start page. (Which makes finding the right forum a bit intimidating and also causes quite a bit of scrolling )
To fight these issues I quickly put together a mock-up of an alternative arrangement to shorten and rationalize the start page...it's just a suggestion, I'm sure people can come up with better solutions. :P
Just a quick sketch, I tried to emphasize 3 ideas:
1. Shortening the Main page by reducing the number of top-level forums. This is done mostly by combining some (less used) top-level forums into sub-forums
2. Making the Documentation Forum more visible (and that way more used as a place for HOWTOs etc.)
3. Changing the basic top/sub-forum arrangement, making release versions as sub-forums. (Since most questions are not release specific, it is easier to browse for network support in one forum...instead of three) For release specific issues there would still be sub-forums.
Anyway, just wanted to know what you think, some of you probably prefer the current arrangement...and some might even call for more drastic changes.
I do understand that it is far easier to suggest changes than to actually make them happen, so I fully understand if you are not very enthusiastic to make any changes
Anyway, the rearrangement of the forums has been discussed before...and most common concern has been the length of the start page. (Which makes finding the right forum a bit intimidating and also causes quite a bit of scrolling )
To fight these issues I quickly put together a mock-up of an alternative arrangement to shorten and rationalize the start page...it's just a suggestion, I'm sure people can come up with better solutions. :P
Just a quick sketch, I tried to emphasize 3 ideas:
1. Shortening the Main page by reducing the number of top-level forums. This is done mostly by combining some (less used) top-level forums into sub-forums
2. Making the Documentation Forum more visible (and that way more used as a place for HOWTOs etc.)
3. Changing the basic top/sub-forum arrangement, making release versions as sub-forums. (Since most questions are not release specific, it is easier to browse for network support in one forum...instead of three) For release specific issues there would still be sub-forums.
Anyway, just wanted to know what you think, some of you probably prefer the current arrangement...and some might even call for more drastic changes.
I do understand that it is far easier to suggest changes than to actually make them happen, so I fully understand if you are not very enthusiastic to make any changes
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