Forum Structure

[Clari]

Hiho Corel-Admins,

would it be possible to structure this forum with subforums like it used to be at support.bibblelabs.com?

It'll soon be a PITA to search for threads when this forum grows with more and more threads...

Thanks
Clari.

[maggus]

Hi,

+1

at least thats something to be done from the very beginning (where we are right now) and can help to get some better overview.

cheers
Markus

[afx]

+100
Yes please
afx

[VIM]

-1

...because half of the topics @ Bibble were posted in a different sub-forum then one would expect. It was not easy: what's the difference between subforums "General Info", "Getting started", "General Questions",...
I'm not against a sub-forum structure... but let it be logical.

[afx]

And while were talking about the forum itself,
could the mail handling of the notifications please be improved?
They all end up in the SPAM queue her because of some silly misconfiguration in the mail delivery subsystem:

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cheers
afx

PS: I did not find an obvious subforum to discuss meta issues of the forum, otherwise I would have posted there.

[maggus]

PS: I did not find an obvious subforum to discuss meta issues of the forum, otherwise I would have posted there.

Vollteffer

[Hobgoblin]

Hiho Corel-Admins,

would it be possible to structure this forum with subforums like it used to be at support.bibblelabs.com?

It'll soon be a PITA to search for threads when this forum grows with more and more threads...

Thanks
Clari.

+1

R.

[bananahead]

Yes please.

But sensible with it. Not as many as at bibble.

[grubernd]

-1

it's always the same questions, the same talk about operating systems, competitor software etc. if one would delete all the redundant posts that wash down the quality of the discussion, one forum is easy enough.

decent help files, tutorials, user and/or survival guides, videos, a blog or a wiki would be much more helpful.
and for the chatty people just set up an irc-channel..

[claudermilk]

+1

There needs to be some kind of structure, just not as much frangmentation as there ended up being at the Bibble forum.

[brucet]

-1.

I've always struggled with Bibbles forum. Corels forum 'flowed' and one could read new posts and see if anything was of interest. On the Bibble forum it is too easy to miss a post that maybe of interest.

But I'll go with the flow.

[andreas]

+1

[andysalay]

Hiho Corel-Admins,
would it be possible to structure this forum with subforums like it used to be at support.bibblelabs.com?
It'll soon be a PITA to search for threads when this forum grows with more and more threads...
Thanks
Clari.

+1

Regards,
Andy Salay

[BrianCee]

It has never been necessary before on these forums - we have always managed with it the way it is set - to me sub-forums just lead to total confusion - if I am using Aftershot pro and it throws up a problem i do not know whether I have a software problem, a hardware problem, or even a user problem - so I think to myself it must be software cause its this programme - I post in a software sub-forum to have some know-all tell me I posted in the wrong place.

I do not see any advantage at all in sub-forums - only confusion.

[andysalay]

(...)
I do not see any advantage at all in sub-forums - only confusion.

Special cases require special treatment
Surely we can very easily distinguish whether:
"the post is an annocuncement" (so it belongs to announcements)
"feature request/ wishlist" ...
"bug report" ...
"plugin related" ...

IMHO at least these four categories are very easy distinguishable even for a small child.
Please look at the traffic at the original Bibblelabs forum.
The categories there has a great importance.
And it has served for majority of users very well.
Thanks to that approach, too, the Bibblelabs forum was so good place.

I do not want to mix plugins related stuff with failures to start on linux for instance.
even "linux related bugs" ... is for me very easily distinguishable. When ASP refuses to start in linux, it is surely not an announcement, not a feature request, but a bug, and surely LINUX related, not windows.
From my POV, when I am trying at least a bit, I can logically place my post. Of course, when there are more then four basic categories, often there are more possibilities to classify a post. But what is perfect in our world? Is the unability to gain perfection an excuse for the total lost of trying to make something better?

Why do we use folders on our harddrives?
We have search engines, so why folders?
Yet we use folders.

Please.

(sorry for slightly passionate post, but I do feel it so. I am scared of possible chaos on the forum...)
Regards,
Andy Salay