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#1 wrecan Apr 20, 2011 8:40:10	I think it is.  Lots of forums get no activity, which means nobody goes to them, and the cycle gets worse. Show The turnover times for the forums (i.e., how quickly a thread drops off the first page) are: D&D Fundamentals 4e General Discussion (12 hours) 4e Rules Q&A (1 day) 4e Character Optimization (14 hours) 4e Character Development (2 weeks) 4e Strikers (1 week) 4e Controllers (2 months) 4e Defenders (1 month) 4e Leaders (2 months) 4e Multiclassing, Paragon Paths and Epic Destinies (1 month) 4e Races and Monsters (1 month) 4e Combat: Traps, Terrain and Tactics (1 month) 4e Rituals, Equipment & Magic Items (1 month) Board Games Castle Ravenloft (2 months) Wrath Of Ashardalon (1 month) D&D Worlds Dark Sun (2 weeks) Eberron: Eberron Lore (2 months) Eberron: Running Eberron (2 months) Forgotten Realms: General (2 months) Forgotten Realms: Realmslore (3 months) Running the Realms (6 months) Gamma World (3 weeks) Other Published Worlds (no subforum has turn over of less than a year) D&D Community What's a DM to Do? (2 days) What's a Player to Do? (2 weeks) Campaign & Adventure Workshop (1 week) House Rules & Homebrew (1 week) Off-Topic Tavern (2 days) Astrid's Parlor (5 months) D&D Insider D&Di Announcements (1 month) D&Di General (2 weeks) Character Builder (2 weeks) Dragon/Dungeon (4 weeks) Dragon/Dungeon Article Discussion (3 weeks) Monster Builder (1 month) Technical Discussion (6 months) Digital D&D (3 months) D&D Previous Editions Classes & Class Features (1 month) Spells, Invocations, and Magic Items (2 months) Monsters and Races (2 months) Previous Editions General (3 weeks) Adventures, Campaigns, and Encounters (2 months) Equipment, Skills, and Feats (2 months) Psionics (7 months) RPGs d20 Character Optimization (2 weeks) d20 Character Development (9 months) d20 Modern RPGs (2 months) General Discussion (9 months)
#42 Mysteria Apr 24, 2011 17:44:12	Can we actually use that sort of layout anywhere? (Btw, and yes, I'm nitpicking here, but, imho, better to point it out right away instead of finding that the errors didn't get fixed: Your naming convention for the forum groups links is inconsistent. Play-By-Post Haven has lost the 'Haven' part of the group name. Core Coliseum (also misspelled) is also a group, but not called group, same Living Forgotten Realms. I'd suggest either adding group to every group, or just drop group from each one.)
#43 wrecan Apr 24, 2011 18:07:22	Thanks, Mysteria!  I think it's all fixed now!
#44 wrecan Apr 28, 2011 12:35:45	there is likely a forum reorg looming in our future Hooray!
#82 Huscarl Aug 22, 2011 15:51:56	The General forum jumping around has nothing to do with forum reorganization. The people who manage the tech side of things here have been playing around with something, I'm not sure what, and that experimentation was responsible.  We are looking at reorganizing the forums, and we're using the outline generated by this thread as the starting point. Our next meeting on the subject is this Wednesday. When we have a proposal to show, we'll start a new thread for it. We have no intention of just dropping a reorg here and expecting everyone to swallow it. We'll gather comments and make adjustments based on your feedback before anything is cemented in place.  FYI, my leaning is toward reducing the number of forums by consolidating those with similar focus and/or lower traffic, and probably reducing the number of higher-level divisions as well. My viewpoint won't necessarily prevail, but that's the one I'm going to push unless I get the impression that it's not what people here want. Steve
#83 Plaguescarred1 Aug 22, 2011 16:04:24	Thanks Steve for coming forward. So its not a reorg and  they messed up huh ?  I am with you on this. I'd prefer have less Forums and more focus so i am all for consolidation. Exemple would be to consolidate the 3 Forgotten Realms into one, or the 2 Eberrons etc..
#84 Seeker95 Aug 22, 2011 16:22:27	FYI, my leaning is toward reducing the number of forums by consolidating those with similar focus and/or lower traffic, and probably reducing the number of higher-level divisions as well. My viewpoint won't necessarily prevail, but that's the one I'm going to push unless I get the impression that it's not what people here want. In the absence of having the ability to sort the forums the way I want to (which I woulr really prefer), this is exactly what I want.
#85 wrecan Aug 22, 2011 16:42:24	Thanks for the update, Steve!  I'm glad that General being moved to the top wasn't part of the reorg.  Give 'em hell at the meeting!
#86 18DELTA Aug 22, 2011 17:15:52	I have been asking for the Realms Forums to be merged to to the low traffic for around two years...
#87 mudbunny Sep 02, 2011 7:20:13	Also, this site became very non-user friendly. I can't even figure out how to put up a signature. You would think it would be under the section of "edit profile". At the top of the thread, click on "preferences". When I click on forums, it does its stupid category stuff, then I have to use my deductive reasoning to figure out which forum blocks would sub the FR forums. Where back in the day, I could simply just see the "FR Forums" in plain view. Forms -> D&D Scroll down to D&D Worlds Expand the section if it is collapsed Click on the FR forum you want to read.
#88 wrecan Apr 21, 2012 8:26:06	Happy one year anniversary to this thread!
#89 frothsof Apr 21, 2012 8:31:28	yes it is time for a celebration of the most unnecessarily bloated forum in the history of the internet may all of your billion sub-forums stay superfluous!