Forum Hierarchy Change

Cloud

Many of the forums from After Hours have been moved to Arts: Music, TV, Films, Theatre, Sci-Fi etc.

Because of the similarity with Arts, Art / Anim / Photo has been renamed to Graphic Design (perhaps later to the more generic Design) and moved to Arts.

Tribes is no more, all old posts moved to Games.

Rugby has gone the same way, remerged to Sports.

Webgames and RTS Games have been merged to Strategy.

I'm currently looking at merging some of the Regional boards.

John.
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Makaveli

Good idea about the Arts forum.
After Hours is looking a bit empty now though.
Maybe move Irish Pubs from the community forum to After Hours.
Also maybe move Star Wars and LoTR into Arts, you could put them with Sci-Fi, like the music/radio menu is set up.

jd

Originally posted by Cloud
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I'm currently looking at merging some of the Regional boards.

John.
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mmm
perhaps wexford/wicklow (and/or carlow) should be merged..

Dustaz

Originally posted by Cloud
Tribes is no more, all old posts moved to Games.

Alas poor tribes forum, i knew you well



GG on the arts section tho. irish pubs to after hours makes sense.

sceptre

Television's under Arts though. Aren't they complete opposites?:p


Nice one Cloud - this makes a lot of sense (menu getting kind of wide for some I suspect)

Agree with Makaveli - thinking about a few forums to move into AfterHours might be a good idea.

Cloud

I wonder should Food / Drink and Irish Pubs be merged? Eat / Drink / Be Merry?

DeVore

Cloud, I moved Comics to Arts too, as the Public Community area is a bit crowded and it seemed to fit well too.

While you are working on stuff any chance you could make the drop downs a point or two bigger without making the top level links bigger (ie: Comics would be a bigger box/link but Arts would remain the same).

DeV.

Dustaz

Its all working like a well oiled machine

(well oiled being the operative word there;) )

Cloud

http://www.ireland.ie/travelling/regions.asp

Regional reorganising completed as per map above. County names can be located in the descriptions of each area under the Regional section.

DadaKopf

That's a good change, Cloud, but there's no board for art-art. Perhaps just add an 'Art' or 'Arts' forum to the Arts category.

Monkey

Graphic Design is not the right term to be using (I think) for a forum that includes non-commercial art. When I see the term "graphic design" that, to me, means commercial design like logos, brochures, websites and that sort of thing.

I suggest renaming the board "Art and Design".

daveirl

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phreak

Originally posted by daveirl
Doesn't matter much though, cos there is only 1 Kerry post anyway.

people in kerry don't know how to use computers

lordsippa

How do you know a kerryman's being using your computer?...


Tip-Ex all over the screen. ;p

Makaveli

Originally posted by daveirl
Last time I check the Cork Board was the highest traffic regional board but now we've been merged with Kerry, but Dublin which didn't have as much traffic didn't get merged!

The Cork board only had about 5 posts more, and that was only recently Dublin was miles ahead of most other regional boards up until a couple of weeks ago.

cournioni

Hey Cloud / DeV... would it not be more suitable for the North West forum to be called the Northern Counties forum or something. Its just that Cavan and Monaghan are technically in the North East (more of Cavan is in the East than the West).

I'm from the very East of Cavan bordering with Monaghan, and that is a very long way away from the West. Is there a name change in the lines?!

Johnny_the_fox

Originally posted by PORNAPSTER
Hey Cloud / DeV... would it not be more suitable for the North West forum to be called the Northern Counties forum

just call it - the north ?

mike65

I really should check this board more frequently, one minute I rule only Waterford now its the whole south-east.

Flamegrill? Who he!

I suspected this would happen esp as I wandered round the more, er...obscure counties of this isle and there was little life to report on...

Mike.

cournioni

Originally posted by Johnny_the_fox


just call it - the north ?

I guess... It shouldn't cause too much of a confusion with Northern Ireland should it?

sceptre

Originally posted by PORNAPSTER

I guess... It shouldn't cause too much of a confusion with Northern Ireland should it?

Could just add Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan to NI and call it Ulster (just on boards of course:))


Any chance of "Shannon" being renamed to "Midwest"? Seriously.

The tourist thingie used includes north Kerry and a few other places in "Shannon"

Lump

Hmmm, I have lost control of Kilkenny...... Oh well.


I think the nex arrangement is better.



John

BuffyBot

Sure, 'twas nice while it lasted

*feels all nakey again*

mike65

Originally posted by Lump
Hmmm, I have lost control of Kilkenny...... Oh well.

John

Thats a point, can mods sue for loss of status...:D

Mike.

BuffyBot

Originally posted by mike65


Thats a point, can mods sue for loss of status...:D

Mike.

Yeah, I never even got to abuse my powers :P

flamegrill

Originally posted by BuffyBot


Yeah, I never even got to abuse my powers :P

Thats why you're not a mod anymore... hehe j/k

I got a huge fright today when i went to look at the Carlow board heh.

Fair play Cloud, changes for the better IMO.

Paul

yellum

Cork should have its own board though ...

BuffyBot

Originally posted by flamegrill


Thats why you're not a mod anymore... hehe j/k

I got a huge fright today when i went to look at the Carlow board heh.

Fair play Cloud, changes for the better IMO.

Paul

LOL

Yes it was a bit of a shock to me too. Dunno bout the changes - I thought merging 2/3 counties might have been a better option i.e Dublin, then Kildare/Laois, Kilkenny/Waterford/Wexford etc - the regions seem a bit *too* big as they stand.

Winters

Ya scared the poo outta me when i logged on tonight. I dont come for a week and everything gets moved

Great idea moving them though... Cut doen on the lengh of the DHTML bar too great job

DMC

The mergers have been warranted, and thankfully, I'm still there with the midlands east, (cheers sir!) but I do agree with that Cavan lad, PORNAPSTER, that Cavan and Monaghan folk would have a lot more in common with, say, Louth and Meath people, than Cavan folk have with Donegal and Louth folk with Wicklow.

Its been a gripe with me for a long time, the structure of how regions are promoted by Bord Failte.. that's for another time. But I think the organisation with the best regional structures are the Health Boards, IMHO.... The only anomaly would be the Eastern Area Health Board, with Wicklow and Kildare tagged on.

My €0.02....

BuffyBot

That was just my take on it - the counties may have been too small and not attracting traffic, but the "larger" regions don't seem to have any reason to be. They seem to be a bit too impersonal for local discussion, too far-reaching.

Just imho

STaN

You may want to consider some of these mergers & moves as i think they will streamline the boards and add a little more balance and reduce the scenario of dozens of boards but only a handful of readers.... i'm sure the exisiting mods can all co-mod the mergers so u can still have yer star


-> College Work & College Play > College Life
-> All the languages boards > Languages*
-> Soldat & Battletech & Webgames & OPflash > Web Games
-> Adding a subcategory in technology
--> Programming
---> Programming
---> PHP
-> Adding a subcategory in Society
--> Culture
---> Irish Pubs
---> Languages*

Possibly Axing the following:
-Couriers
-Bubbles (or renaming it to 'Get it of your chest' or something spammy like that - no1 knows what its for tbh )

Cloud

So something like these:

http://www.hebe.ie/health_boards/index.html

?

GoneShootin

i agree with this and that and the other thing

DMC

Originally posted by Cloud
So something like these:

http://www.hebe.ie/health_boards/index.html

?

Thats the bunny!

BuffyBot

Originally posted by Gone Shootin


i agree with this and that and the other thing

Still too big imho (some of the larger boards) (Am a fussy b*stard me!). Go for the bi/tri-county boards

DMC

Like Local Radio station areas, buffybot?

http://www.bci.ie/stations.htm#commercial

sceptre

Health board layout looks like the best option - with a little fiddling of "northern area", "south-western area" and "east coast" (ie. Dublin and something else), then rename "southern" to "southwest"

The Cork city lads will want their own board yet - personally i think they have the traffic for it.

Some of the areas may look a little big, but in general they've a lot more in common than the current ones/names.

Might be worth checking with the Tipp lads to see if they're OK about having their county split in two boards-wise (makes most sense to me TBH - Nenagh doesn't belong with south-east & Clonmel certainly doesn't belong in the mid-west.

zenith

Yes, us Cork lads will want our own board.

Don't make us get all whiny.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

regi

Yes, us Cork lads will want our own board.

Don't make us get all whiny.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

langers!

jd

Originally posted by Regi


langers!

to be fair, the langers *think* they are in the real capital..
One thing about cork people is they know how to talk, but if you give them their own board, they might shut up fo, oh maybe 10 minutes, so it might be worth it!

Occidental

Originally posted by Cloud
So something like these:

http://www.hebe.ie/health_boards/index.html

?

That's a lot better for the Midlands, if you can leave us like that I think we'll be happy (everyone?).

BuffyBot

Originally posted by DamoDMC
Like Local Radio station areas, buffybot?

http://www.bci.ie/stations.htm#commercial

Not a bad idea actually