Forum Changes - Merging Discussion and News, Side Projects and the Slash section

[saber_]

Perhaps the section description can be changed. "GnR: Past, Present, Future, and side projects".

Or something.

[Nosaj Thing]

Well, I can say that the change is progressing.

[GivenToFly]

I'm all for it! I've always advocated having as few sections as possible.

[bacardimayne]

Still don't like it.

[Slash2baz]

Not a big fan of this change to be honest, i think it's a little bit messy to found out threads but I understand mods' motivation. s
I'm still for a separation between Gn'R and Gn'R related / ex members

[ColdHeartBreaker]

One positive: Buckethead discussion, back where it belongs! Buck suffered being stuck in the dead section for so long, it's clear people want to talk about him and his music.

[highvoltage]

One positive: Buckethead discussion, back where it belongs! Buck suffered being stuck in the dead section for so long, it's clear people want to talk about him and his music.

That aspect seems to be bothering quite a few people. I quite like it too. The thread about Matt was another good example.

My ideal "vision" for this whole thing (and part of where the push came from) was actually to have kept all the subforums, but to have an optional "my feed" subforum above everything else... The idea was that the "my feed" section would display threads from any subforum you chose to "follow". You could mix AG, D&N, Side Projects, etc all into the one feed if you wanted, and ignore the sections you don't want to appear in there. The site needs to be more mobile-friendly, and I don't think having to navigate in and out of subforums is conducive to that.

Unfortunately, that wasn't really feasible with the current board software, and I feel like the whole concept may have been confusing for people. So... that's when I moved onto thinking about this and pushing the other guys to give it a shot.

...So if it does end up that we go back to the old format, let's be clear that this is on my head.

Also, I want to apologise for singling out "Slash fans" in the original post because it seems I put a lot of people offside with that. We do know the trolling goes both ways, and many of the "Axl fans" are just as bad, if not worse.

[Damn_Smooth]

Meh, delete every section and bring back Attitude.

[bacardimayne]

If being mobile friendly is a concern, hurry up and get rid of the Past Concerts/Axl Rose Chats sections so it doesn't take two clicks to get to D&N. That's more annoying than the Slash section ever was.

Edited May 10, 2014 by bacardimayne

[Gibbo]

Another thing that would be a good idea is the day of a gig or whatever have a count down clock on top of the main forum. Theres always a million people asking how long till the show starts. It gets confusing with everone being in diff time zones.

Edited May 10, 2014 by Gibbo 27

[highvoltage]

If being mobile friendly is a concern, hurry up and get rid of the Past Concerts/Axl Rose Chats sections so it doesn't take two clicks to get to D&N. That's more annoying than the Slash section ever was.

Made a small change to fix this and promoted D&N to it's own category.

[bacardimayne]

beauty

[Bobbo]

Still too much clutter for my taste. Certainly isn't a deal breaker, but I much prefer the old format and feel it makes much more sense.

[highvoltage]

Still too much clutter for my taste. Certainly isn't a deal breaker, but I much prefer the old format and feel it makes much more sense.

Yep - at this point it seems me and about 3 other people are all that seem to prefer it.

I'm not as bothered by everything being thrown in together.. If you look past that aspect, it's clear that the threads themselves are getting a lot more replies than they were in Side Projects. I'm not saying that's the only measure of success or anything, but it's noticeable.

EDIT: Take this thread about Sorum, which hit 3 pages and got 1500 views in 48 hours: http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/207248-matt-sorum-says-the-launch-of-vr-was-the-biggest-moment-in-his-career/

The last four threads about Matt, which were originally posted to Side Projects and would have been on the front couple pages for weeks:

0 replies, 118 views: http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/207026-matt-sorum-interviewed-on-sixx-sense/?hl=sorum

3 replies, 233 views: http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/206967-matt-sorums-new-song/?hl=sorum

3 replies, 353 views: http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/206565-interview-matt-sorum-songfactscom/?hl=sorum

0 replies, 455 views: http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/206561-matt-sorum-interviewed-by-the-rock-revival/?hl=sorum

I'm not going to force people into keeping things this way, but it's worth seeing a month or so out to see if any minds are changed.

[Estranged Reality]

HV's point is true. I'm not a huge fan of how cluttered everything looks right now either, but I've found myself reading threads I wouldn't have otherwise noticed, including the 'Slash guest appearances' one. Not because I don't like Slash, but because I'm just not always used to browsing his subforum as often.

[highvoltage]

I made some changes to the tagging system to see if it made things better organised for people. Only a small change obviously.

Anyone like the "prefix" tags? Is it better or worse?

[Nosaj Thing]

That looks good. Just one thing, it should be PINNED then SLASH, IMO.

Edited May 11, 2014 by Nosaj Thing

[highvoltage]

I'll try to change it, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to!

EDIT: Yeah, can't be done without messing around with the skin.

[Nosaj Thing]

It's just that it looks a bit messy with the colors.

[Yesterdays-Civil-War]

Now it looks like a circus.

[highvoltage]

I quit.

[Damn_Smooth]

I quit.

Pay no attention to these people, a wise intellegent bright competent woman once pointed out that they're full of nothing but complaints complaints complaints.

[Black Sabbath]

I'm openly stating my vote to just go back to how things were previously. As if it didn't look a little messy after the initial change, now with the gray tags things look even worse

[Nosaj Thing]

Come on guys, we all know the forum looks like shit, the worst it has ever looked since 2002, but high's trying his best here. Let's give him props for his hard work.

[ColdHeartBreaker]

I will be very upset if Bucket discussion is once again banished to the dead section!