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Forum Structure and Cleanup

SpiderDave
Monday, November 28, 2016 - 12:01
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The forum sections are really disorganized in my opinion; I have a few suggestions:

* Create an "Archived" section for things that haven't been used in years
* "Weekly Challenges" is dead, archive it.
* "Procedural Death Jam" is for an old jam from years ago; it's a dead forum and shouldn't be so visible (It's the second forum, right below General Discussion).  There's also a dead link in the description for it.
* There is a link to "FreeGameDev Forums" at the bottom that leads to an empty forum page, and it has an empty header with "Forums Topics Post Last Post" as well.  There's a link to a new forum so presumably it used to be here but moved.  This could be better handled with some kind of redirect (mod_rewrite or whatever) and remove it from the forums page.
* "Programming" and "Writers Forum" should go under "Design".
* "Resource Requests" and "Open Commissions" should go under "Art Forums".
* Fix the issues where "last post" says n/a and where views is 0.  These are important tools to gague interest and activity.

I'm sure there's some differing opinions on what goes where but mostly I just wanted to point out that it could use some cleanup.

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foz
joined 11 years 7 months ago
Monday, November 28, 2016 - 13:55

The Procedural Death Jam is dear to me as happened a few weeks after I'd found the site, was the motivator that really got me to properly hunt through the site and discover what a treasure trove of art the site really is.

 

Ever since, this has become one of my staple must visit sites each day.

 

But, alas, I must agree with you - the old competitions should be archived - heck, all competitions should be in their own sub section.

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withthelove
joined 11 years 8 months ago
Sunday, December 4, 2016 - 15:32
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Just want to say I agree with all SpiderDave's suggestions and foz's suggestion to put all competitions in their own sub section.  

https://withthelove.itch.io/

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