MUST READ (BOARD CHANGES!)

[Klark]

Ok, I'm about to list the board changes, but before I do, let me assure you that if you moderate a topic, it's still there. Trust me. Here's a list of what changed and at the end, I'll tell you why it changed.

• Introductions has been made a sub-board of General Talkings. DarkAngelsFury now also mods Introductions.
  
  
• Forum News has been made a sub-board of Comments, Questions, and Suggestions. Liljenjen now mods Forum News as a result.
  
  
• The News Category has been placed on top of the Advice Columns
  
  
• General Living, Parenting and Parents, Pets, Health, Occupation, Relationships, and Sexual Healing have all become sub-boards of Advise Me! No moderator is necessary for the new set-up as posting has been disabled in the main forum. The mods who had topics within Advise Me! still mod those topics independently.
  
  
• Philosophy, Politics, Dreams, Religion, Sports, and Food have been made sub-boards of Watercooler. No moderator is necessary for the new set-up as posting has been disabled in the main forum. The mods who had topics within Watercooler still mod those topics independently.
  
  
• The Paranormal Category has been made available with the forum topic Paranormal Stuff. There are no sub-boards, this is the actual forum for posting.
  
  
• Games, Movies & Television, Music, Literature, and Humor have been made sub-boards of the forum Entertain Me! No moderator is necessary for the new set-up as posting has been disabled in the main forum. The mods who had topics within Entertain Me! still mod those topics independently.
  
  
• The Artwork Category has been deleted. The Showroom topic forum was moved to Writings. The mod of Showroom still mods Showroom independently.
  
  
• Creative Juices was created within the Entertainment category.
  
  
• Poetry, Stories, Relays, and Showroom were moved from the Writings category to become sub-boards of Creative Juices. No mod is necessary for the new set-up as posting as been disabled in the Creative Juices main forum. The mods who had topics within Writings still mod those topics independently.
  
  
• The category Writings was deleted.
  

The reason for doing this is to help save room on the main site. It will lower the time it takes for the page to load so it helps those with slower connections or those like me that log on with a mobile browser via cell phone or PSP.

We like to have a diverse range of topics so there is a home for everyone, however, having them all available on the main page was dragging out the time it takes for the site to load. Also, constantly scrolling down to get to the topic was becoming tiresome. Now, you simply click on the main page link to the forum that contains the sub-board you would like to see and click the sub-board to enter it.

It simply tidies up the site a little bit.

Also, I would like to add that by clicking on a catagory name (ex. General, News, Advice Columns.....) you can shrink that catagory down to practically a bubble. So if you've gone through a whole catagory and would like to continue on, you can collapse it to help shrink the amount of page you must scroll through.


These are the changes that I've made. We'll see how it goes. If you don't like the new set-up, please speak your mind in the Comments, Questions, and Suggestions forum. I'm always open to any of those. If you do like it, then please say so. This way I know I'm not totally screwing up the way our forum looks and operates.

Thank you.

[wild2ndchild]

Thanks for the rundown of changes. I appreciate it. I like the way it looks now, and will let you know if I like the way it works after "playing" around in here a bit more.

[vampyrekei]

I like the new set up. Looks good! ;D