Wally
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The current forum isn't really structured well, why?
1. Moderating it is a pain, there's far too many sub-forums to have to poke into.
2. If we are to sell things, we should have an easy / less confusing place for customers to go.
3. People don't like scrolling so much
4. We have 2 Trading sections
5. There's sections that haven't been posted in forever.
Here's what i've put together and I think it works. There's probably some minor improvements that need to be made and the community can throw input in. I've left comments beside each of them.
Proposed New Forum Structure
News
- Official News - This can cover Pandora, Pyra and whatever ED likes to cover.
- Forum News - This can be specific to forum software if we need to cover it (It’s probably not required)
- Software News
- Pandora
- Pyra
Branched this way because News should be all in one area, easier for those to select what they want if they use RSS feeds.
Pyra
- General Discussion
We rename it from General Talk to General Discussion as that makes more sense in English.
- Development
Evidently we don’t need subforums as we had in the Pandora section, it just generates mess.
- Knowledge Base - As the Wiki is deemed as an Official Source of information, select people should maintain it so that we keep it consistent, clean and workable for our
customers. I am choosing to rename it to Knowledge Base as this is the ITIL standard and it makes more sense in plain english if we are to attract new customers. We can just simply refer to KB articles if required.
- Support Where people go to get Support for their Pyra
Pandora
- General Discussion - We rename it from General Talk to General Discussion as that makes more sense in English.
- Development - We rid of all the sub-forums and merge into one. There’s really no need to have a separate section for everything (Android especially as we aren’t an Android Support forum and Android Support is quite limited)
- Knowledge Base - Same reason as the Pyra section. A unified KB would work well.
- Support
Off Topic
- General Off Topic - Giving this a name that makes more sense in English
- Site Feedback / Suggestions - This particular section
- Other Consoles - As people really like this section, we should keep it as is!
- DragonBox Shop - Keep the section as is but remove the ‘stuff’ as it looks more professional -Perhaps this should be in the News Section as it’s really promoting stuff that EvilDragon Sells and well the DragonBox Pyra
- Trading (We rid of individual trading sections and make a single trading section as it’s CONFUSING.
- Ask EvilDragon Questions -As EvilDragon is pretty busy with everything, perhaps we could possibly remove this and branch it out across the forums so it’s not specific to ED and the community knows most of the answers.
- Staff Area - For those secret Staff Discussions
I intentionally left the Guest area out as people seem to be abusing it by continuously asking questions in there instead of signing up. Understandably there's no real area for those who have forum troubles which should somehow link to our support system / have an allocated email address so we can help resolve them ASAP.
Thoughts?
1. Moderating it is a pain, there's far too many sub-forums to have to poke into.
2. If we are to sell things, we should have an easy / less confusing place for customers to go.
3. People don't like scrolling so much
4. We have 2 Trading sections
5. There's sections that haven't been posted in forever.
Here's what i've put together and I think it works. There's probably some minor improvements that need to be made and the community can throw input in. I've left comments beside each of them.
Proposed New Forum Structure
News
- Official News - This can cover Pandora, Pyra and whatever ED likes to cover.
- Forum News - This can be specific to forum software if we need to cover it (It’s probably not required)
- Software News
- Pandora
- Pyra
Branched this way because News should be all in one area, easier for those to select what they want if they use RSS feeds.
Pyra
- General Discussion
We rename it from General Talk to General Discussion as that makes more sense in English.
- Development
Evidently we don’t need subforums as we had in the Pandora section, it just generates mess.
- Knowledge Base - As the Wiki is deemed as an Official Source of information, select people should maintain it so that we keep it consistent, clean and workable for our
customers. I am choosing to rename it to Knowledge Base as this is the ITIL standard and it makes more sense in plain english if we are to attract new customers. We can just simply refer to KB articles if required.
- Support Where people go to get Support for their Pyra
Pandora
- General Discussion - We rename it from General Talk to General Discussion as that makes more sense in English.
- Development - We rid of all the sub-forums and merge into one. There’s really no need to have a separate section for everything (Android especially as we aren’t an Android Support forum and Android Support is quite limited)
- Knowledge Base - Same reason as the Pyra section. A unified KB would work well.
- Support
Off Topic
- General Off Topic - Giving this a name that makes more sense in English
- Site Feedback / Suggestions - This particular section
- Other Consoles - As people really like this section, we should keep it as is!
- DragonBox Shop - Keep the section as is but remove the ‘stuff’ as it looks more professional -Perhaps this should be in the News Section as it’s really promoting stuff that EvilDragon Sells and well the DragonBox Pyra
- Trading (We rid of individual trading sections and make a single trading section as it’s CONFUSING.
- Ask EvilDragon Questions -As EvilDragon is pretty busy with everything, perhaps we could possibly remove this and branch it out across the forums so it’s not specific to ED and the community knows most of the answers.
- Staff Area - For those secret Staff Discussions
I intentionally left the Guest area out as people seem to be abusing it by continuously asking questions in there instead of signing up. Understandably there's no real area for those who have forum troubles which should somehow link to our support system / have an allocated email address so we can help resolve them ASAP.
Thoughts?
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