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Originally Posted by GD
Just my personal opinion, but I think merging all music-related forums/sub-forums into a single big one (if this is what you are proposing), with no way to sort things apart except for what has recently received new posts, could quickly turn into a a cluster****. It would make me dread browsing music-related threads because the ones I was interested in and wanted to read were lumped in with a lot I don't care about.
However, if we had a forum like your "Music corner", essentially replacing the "General music" forum we have today and maybe a few others, and then sectioned off genre-specific discussion into its own forum, with a sub-forum for each category, I could actually see it helping to declutter the website and making the front page a little less bloated (and make it easier to access the Shoutbox and the Lounge for that matter) while still not making it difficult for users who were searching for genre-specific content.
Anyway, those are just my thoughts, and for the record, I wouldn't mind if the site stayed the way it is now either.
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Thanks for your input, GD. I actually agree with you, at least to some extent, in that I would prefer to have a few music forums rather than just the one. I would like to se perhaps two or three. It wasn't in my suggestion because with the time I had, I couldn't come up with a satisfying way to divide music related discussion into a few forums that would cover all the bases and be clearly delineated / not overlap so that it would be clear to people where a thread should go.
Your suggestion about one general and one for genre discussions (with subs) is a possibility. I also considered separating by content type (like reviews are a separate type of content from discussions) or decades or perhaps broad stroke descriptors like popular music and avantgarde. None of these seemed quite satisfactory to me, but I'd still like a few music forums rather than the one if one could find the right set of forum themes.
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Originally Posted by Key
Idk man I just post in my journal. I just dont think it's worth trying to "fix" anything at this forum when it works perfectly fine the way it is. Other than aesthetics, there doesnt seem to be any other reason to trim anything down.
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I see a few here describe things as perfectly fine. I get that not everyone will want to trim the forums because it is a radical suggestion and I understand that. However, I can't get quite behind the statement that everything is fine. Just a few items from my immediate wishlist:
- A vbulletin update so that the site is more mobile / tablet friendly
- The possibility to tag users in a post so that they can be notified when addressed
- Replace the blue theme or make it optional and for Darwins' sake clean up the white pixels around buttons like "Post reply" or "quote"
- Remove censoring of swear words and the like OR at least make some changes (I can't write Marvin Gaye?)
- An improved capcha for better spambot prevention
If I were running things, you bet I would be on Advameg to implement these things and more. However, I fortunately am not riddled with the headache of running things and that mostly spares me from a continous uphill battle against a community where most of the people who wanted more for MB have already left and the people who stuck around are the guys who seem completely complacent or even happy with the admin neglect and abandonment that has turned MB into a sinking ship in a losing battle against social medias and other music forums that
are able to update and implement welcome changes. Whatever the deal with admin is, the most disappointing thing about MB, by far, is that nobody left seems to care about its' wellbeing.