My thoughts on forum organization

I think the people who would read it still will read it if it's down on the bottom next to Board Feedback. It's those who don't read the announcements/stickies that won't scroll down, and they don't do it anyway.

I'd like to see movement on this project. Can we set a 7/31/10 deadline for forum shuffling, and if we can't come to a consensus, can we table the idea until next off-season? I think any later than 7/31 and we're too close to the new season, and it'll be an unnecessary and off-putting issue. I think we've got a good basic framework at this point, so if we can come to a conclusion we can get this implemented.

Here's a framework that Frank started and we've tweaked some, that I think makes a lot of sense:

Sports

--Husker Football

--Other Husker Sports

--Recruiting

----Sub-Forums for each year

--Big 12/Big 10 Sports

--Other Sports

--Plan-It Husker

Other Stuff

--Big Red Lounge

----Recipes

----Politics and Religion

--A/V Tech Club

----Same sub-forums as we have now

--Contest Crib

--Classifieds

--Daily Skin

--Woodshed

Archives

--Rumorville

--Conference Expansion

--(anything else?)

Announcements and Board Info

--Notices

--Board Feedback

--Tips and Tricks

EDIT - incorporated some of zoogies' ideas.

 
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Looks good. One thing I'm not totally on board with is the Big12/10 sports forum. That means we would have 4 sports forums, and it seems overly categorized to me. I can get one for Husker Football, one for other Husker sports, and one for other sports in general. But does it make sense that posting an article about Florida football should go in a different from than posting an article about Penn State football? Or Clemson baseball vs say Michigan baseball. Whether they are separate forums or not, they will both be not visited nearly as much as 'Husker football', and the more forums there are, the more work for users. I think even anything NCAA football could almost fit into the 'Husker' football forum better than 'Big 10 sports' (where you'd also be talking baseball, softball, gymnatiscs, w/e) or 'Other sports' (likewise).

I also think Plan-it Husker, with its million subforums, would look better as the last forum in its heading. It's almost a divider in and of itself.

Agree on the movement, not sure about the date. Things won't really get rolling until the season really begins, so early or even mid August doesn't seem like a totally bad time - just a random thought though. You might be right on that one.

 
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We need to get Eric's or Chad's blessing before we can proceed. Once we do, we can get it started. Again (and Eric, this is for you and Chad), I think that if we do this we need to send out a mass emailing to let people know before we do it - it would help prepare members and reduce the inevitable bitching a bit.

 
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Dude - you just did!

 
I've finally had a chance to review this. Great discussion, thanks to all for their input.

I think a re-org in sync with the new design is good timing. How about you guys?

Here's my vote:

Sports

--Husker Football

--Recruiting

----Sub-Forums for each year

--Other Husker Sports

--Other Sports

*I agree a sub-forum just for big12/10 could be somewhat confusing

Other Stuff

--Big Red Lounge

----Recipes

----Politics and Religion

--A/V Tech Club

----Same sub-forums as we have now

--Contest Crib

--Classifieds

--Daily Skin

--Woodshed

--Plan-It Husker

*I put plan-it husker last b/c I agree w/what zoogies said about it being better at the bottom of a forum as a divider -- yet I dont feel it belongs within the sports area. It's closer to a combo of "bs / classifieds" when compared to the other sports sub-forums.

Also I didnt list an announcements forum b/c we will have an area to post this type of stuff with the new board design.

Thoughts on this structure?

 
Looks good to me. Regarless of the final re-org, would we need to do it prior to rolling out the new Board? In other words, do we need the reorganization done to help the migration?

 
AR Husker Fan said:
Looks good to me. Regarless of the final re-org, would we need to do it prior to rolling out the new Board? In other words, do we need the reorganization done to help the migration?
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No we can re-org after the migration. Actually here's a thought - I could ask the design guy to set-up the new forum structure on the dev board, and then we can take screenshots to give our members a preview of the new board design & re-org. If we give ppl a week to digest maybe it wont be as harsh.

Thoughts on this - you guys know our members well - should we do a week preview, or just get on with it?

 
We could roll it out in stages to make the transition easier...i.e, new forum structure first. Then roll out everything after a week, but give users the option to go back to the old look (is this possible?). Then after a few weeks (the best time to work through any initial kinks if there are any), take away the old look option.

 
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Thoughts on this - you guys know our members well - should we do a week preview, or just get on with it?
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I would just roll it out. We'll get a million suggestions on tweaks and changes and a million more posts about how people love it/hate it. I think people will adjust pretty quickly to whatever changes are made.

 
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Blackshirt said:
Thoughts on this - you guys know our members well - should we do a week preview, or just get on with it?
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I would just roll it out. We'll get a million suggestions on tweaks and changes and a million more posts about how people love it/hate it. I think people will adjust pretty quickly to whatever changes are made.
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I agree, at least to the redesign. If it looks as if we'll be a few weeks or longer on rolling out the redesign, then I think we should do the reorganization now and get that out of the way. Otherwise, do it all at once. Like pulling off a bandage.

 
I agree with that, Frank. If there will be a significant delay in rolling out the redesign, reorg should go ahead.

Have we discussed condensing the pinned threads in Husker Football? We have nine right now, and it's excessive. I have a pretty good-sized monitor and with the header, banners, Big 10 helmets, subforums and pinned threads, it takes up 1 1/2 screens of real estate.

I'm wondering if we couldn't do something like this:

1. **Washington Game Video, Pics, Stories, Quotes, Stats & More** - Leave as is

2. **Official South Dakota State Prediction Contest Open** - Leave as is

3. Introduce Yourself - Move to the BS Lounge

4. New HuskerBoard Banner Contest - Leave as is

5. 2010 Husker Schedule Wallpaper!- See Below

6. 2010 HuskerBoard Schedule and Husker Watch Sites- See Below

7. ==NEBRASKA TRADITION== - See Below

8. Huskerboard All Time Team - See Below

9. Using The IGNORE Function - Leave as is/get rid of

If we combine Nos. 5, 6, 7 & 8, that'll save a ton of screen real estate. Moving Introduce Yourself to the BS Lounge makes more sense to me since it's a social function, not a football function. If we wanted we could put Nebraska Tradition in the Conference Expansion forum, since that's what it's primarily geared towards.

If we cleaned that up a little bit we could cut down on lots of clutter.

 
Two things we can do right now - and I'll go ahead and do it - is upin the announcement of the 2010 Schedule and Husker Watchsites, and move the Using the Ignore Function to Board Feedback.

Thoughts on the others, everyone?

 
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