3D-Mobster opened this issue on Aug 10, 2017 ยท 3 posts
3D-Mobster posted Thu, 10 August 2017 at 10:49 PM
Hi, have suggested this a few times before, but Ill do it again :D
I really think it would benefit the Renderosity forum and usability if you narrowed down the number of forums that you have available. The reason for this comes down to several things.
First I think its very confusing with so many forums, for instance the Poser technical forums there are 6 forums in total for different version, in half of these there haven't been posted in the last 80 days, so it makes little sense to keep them. What i would suggest is to combine all these into a single Poser technical forum instead or simply make people post in the regular Poser forum where they already post a lot of these questions, because that the place with the greatest chance of getting help.
There are 2 different suggestion forums (Im not even sure im posting this in the correct one :D) The majority of the suggestions are posted in the one called "Suggestion box" so remove the other one and keep all suggestions in the same forum.
"Where can I find" Remove that and make people post in the software specific forum that they are using. So if a user is looking for a "hat" and uses poser they would post in the Poser forum.
There is no reason to have 2-4 2D forums or how many there is, combine them all into one.
There are to many forums to go through each, but in general I think all forums which are rarely posted in should be removed or combined into a single forum. for instance all those that are for specific programs and posts are rare, make one forum called "Other software". "Other technical" and so forth.
The reason why I would do this, is to focus the forum more, so posts are easier for people to see and therefore to get help. When I come to the forum I very rarely check any other forum than Poser, Vendor support forum, meaning I scroll to these without even checking the others, simply because there are so many that I honestly cant be bothered checking through them and I know that 80% of them are not very active and based on the activity in most of the forums I assume that most users have a very similar behavior. Which means that if you post in any of them, there is a good chance that only the moderator of that forum will see it.
Even though it might seem very user friendly with all these specific forums, Im pretty certain that its exactly the opposite and a new user would find it extremely confusing where to post varies things having so many forums, besides that it doesn't really help them either if they then post in a forum and no one answers them. Reducing the amount of forums would also increase activity in the other forums, which is what makes a forum fun and interesting, that people are sharing idea, helping each other and have friendly chats. But with all these forums people are scattered all over the place.
So I would strongly advice that you do a really a huge clean up, its really messy and not very useful with so many inactive forums I think