Any chance the "geek" headings can be re-jigged?

jesus_thats_gre · 06-12-2004 10:43pm #1

I know its been said before but the recent introduction of a Gadgets forum and its clasification has bothered me a little.. Its clasification under Science surely has to limit the amount of visitors it experiences. Also, the allocation of Home Entertainment under After Hours is a bit "out there" too.. I suggest renaming the Comp heading to Tech and introducing a Consumer Electronics heading.

Would it not be better to have the following:

Tech

.......Comp
..............Computers
..............Programming
..............Tweaking/Modding

.......Electronics (Consumer Electronics)
..............Mobiles/PDAs
..............Gadgets
..............Home Entertainment

.......Nets/Comms
..............Broadband
..............Nets/Comms
..............Security
..............Wireless

.......Operating Systems
..............Mac
..............Unix
..............VMS
..............Windows

.......Web
..............Web Hosting
..............Webmaster/Flash

I would appreciate if my suggestion was given some consideration as I am a regular user of most of there forums..

Thanks

aidan_walsh · 06-12-2004 10:44pm

My name is doodle, and I approve of this message.

Raphael · 06-12-2004 11:00pm

That does look far tidier...more appropriate too

garthv · 06-12-2004 11:01pm

i agree

po0k · 06-12-2004 11:18pm

Aye, looks a bit cleaner.

Cloud · 06-12-2004 11:32pm

Yeah it looks fine, but OS / Nets are subsets of Comp and it ain't so tidy then... We should thrash this out a bit. Certainly an Electronics group would be good. I guess you just left out the Web stuff by accident.

aidan_walsh · 06-12-2004 11:33pm

Yes. Accident.

/shifty eyes...

jesus_thats_gre · 07-12-2004 12:15am

Woops left the web stuff out by "accident"

Moriarty · 07-12-2004 1:37am

+1 slightly damp sock of approval

Capt'n Midnight · 07-12-2004 1:44am

should there be an APPs section seperate to windows ?

helpdogscat · 07-12-2004 2:11am

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

should there be an APPs section seperate to windows ?

don't think so, you would just be doubling the forums, windows/windows apps, mac/mac apps, unix/unix apps, think it would just cause unneeded clutter, tis ok as is

jesus_thats_gre · 07-12-2004 5:58pm

We need some input from the geeks and their mods..

dangerman · 07-12-2004 6:16pm

.......Web
..............Web Hosting
..............Webmaster/Flash

with the web hosting forum shut down for so long any chance we could just get rid of the web sub menu and just have webmaster/flash sitting in the main column? take the useful stickies from web hosting throw them into web master?

it may save a few of the web page threads from going into computers.

Victor · 08-12-2004 11:10pm

Is this a little long?

boards.ie/vbulletin > Comp > Electronics (Consumer Electronics) > Home Entertainment

Surely

boards.ie/vbulletin > Comp > Electronics > Home Entertainment

or

boards.ie/vbulletin > Comp > Consumer Electronics > Home Entertainment

Also with a maximum of 4 sub-categories, is there a risk of an un-necessary amount of branching (a file in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder )?

Peteee · 09-12-2004 4:27pm

<cliche>

I whole heartidly approve of this product and/or service

/me cuts ribbon and drives off in limo

</cliche>

jesus_thats_gre · 09-12-2004 7:02pm

Electronics (Consumer Electronics)

(Consumer Electronics) was added to provide a brief description of the content for the sake of the thread. It was not intended to be use in the drop down menus..