Apart from the obvious idea of culling a fair chunk of users does anyone have any suggestions or ideas (or even a suggestion and an idea) that they think would benefit TFK.
I have a couple of easily-enough-implementable ideas that I’m toying with at the moment but seeing as the font democracy experiment went so well I may as well ask ye first.
The main Board Room works well as a catch-all and virtually every thread of interest is in there. However without separating out content to other places there are a couple of ideas that may help organise content into relevant sections for people who don’t want to see everything.
Option 1 is to use prefixes to threads (like the “Official” branding I’ve used on a few threads recently). So you could have prefixes for GAA, Soccer, Rugby, Food, Random, Ladies, etc. etc. and there would be an option to view threads with the prefixes you want or to view all threads etc. So you could just click on a GAA button and only threads with a GAA prefix would appear.
Option 2 is to have a few sub-forums and one master forum. So you wouldn’t be able to start threads in the Board Room - you would start them in a specific forum such as Sports, Non Sports, Music, etc. and they would be available in those individual forums but all consolidated into the one main board room too.
I prefer option 1 out of those two but not entirely convinced of its merits.
But what do you think? Are either or both of those worth implementing? Or do you have any other thoughts? Was it better when there was a frontpage even if the content was a little stale?
Note 1: Suggestions or ideas that involve apologies to lapsed members will not be entertained.
Note 2: If you are contributing to this thread please be sure to distinguish between suggestions and ideas and label them correctly.
Suggestion: option 2 sounds like just another button to click i.e are you saying that we will have to go to TFK.com then click board room then click which forum we want to see. It all sounds unnecessary.
+1, no point adding functionality for functionality’s sake. The lack of posts in the Astro forum is the main reason for the decline of the forum and yet nothing has been done to rectify this
I think that some fresh blood is needed in the administrating of this forum. Rocko should be moved upstairs to a high level Moderating role and draw up a long term plan for TFK and let someone with a bit more tech savvy like The Runt[/USER], [USER=258]cluaindiuic[/USER] or [USER=281]cailinlochgarman take over the day to day adminstrating of the board and minor changes
I agree with that. In particular us more Tech Savvy members taking over the board. Rocko’s continued reluctance to embrace social media in any meaningful way, and his failure to take account of advances in SEO, has meant this board has seen a continued decline in traffic in the past 18 months.