[X] My Assistant

[Drkskywxlt]

If I may, I'd like to may a brief comment on the organization of the message board. I've been on Easternuswx BB (weather = wx) for a couple years, and they use the same software as Unmannedspaceflight. On EUSWX, rather than having multiple forums for "winter weather", "hurricanes", etc.., they have one large forum for weather and an equally large "Off Topic" forum. It keeps the discussion very exciting and vibrant. As a newbie to this fine board, comparing the two, I have a hard time finding recent discussions given the large quantity of seperate forums here.

I don't mean this to be rude in any way and am only trying to be helpful!




http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showforum=15

My handle on EUSWX is WxUSAF.

[djellison]

The problem with one large "catch all" forum is that we have some very varied topics that do not overlap that much.

For instance - people reading up on Cassini do not want to have the Opportunity route-map thread in the way, or people following New Horizons do not want to scroll through the threads of STEREO etc etc.

Getting it right is not easy - but I much much prefer this way to having them all in one bucket. I think it's probably just a matter of getting used to things. The forum I frequented the most before this one had over 400 sub forums within it...some of which I never visited because the content didn't interest me and as a result it saves me a lot of time when i go there. The majority of sites I've visited do seperate content up into sub forums and I try to resist the creation of a new subforum where possible ( i.e. recently people wanted a new thread of extra solar planets, and I simply gave extra solar planets a home within an existing forum )

Paxdan is right - the "view new post" button is great and essentially does what you want - makes a large virtual forum with all the new content in it.

Thanks for the comments - and I'll certainly pop into the Eastern US WX BB just to see how things feel when clumped together.

Doug