Proposed Mybroadband forum changes: Your feedback needed

[rpm]

Hi there

We are considering a few changes to MyBroadband, and your feedback about these proposed changes will be great:

--Merge “First posts and forum questions” with “Forum suggestions” forums

--Merge the “Mobile Broadband” and “Broadband Discussions” forums into a single “General Broadband Discussions” forum

--Move “Do you remember” as a sub-forum under Off-Topic

--Move “World of Warcarft and Diablo” and “Gaming Consoles” forums as a sub-section of Gaming forum. Should we maybe merge all these forums?

--Merge Olympics 2012 forum with general sports forum

Classifieds

--Close the current classifieds system, and move all classifieds to the forum (in the Classifieds forum). Users will therefore post their goods for sale in the forum. The same restrictions will hold as in the current classifieds system.

Your feedback about these proposed changes will be great.

 

[Richardxtc]

Fix the mobile forum, when i browse with my Gio it doesnt show the "Todays Post" link or when i go into a thread i can only view the first page as the "Next Page" button does not show.

 

[NomNom]

Signed, don't merge the gaming sections though.

 

[bwana]

Keep the classifieds as they are.

 

[rpm]

Keep the classifieds as they are.

The main reason for the change is because we have to maintain another CMS, which is becoming an issue.

What are your concerns about a forum based classifieds system (I remember it gave problems previously...just cant remember what it was)...

 

[ginggs]

--Merge the “Mobile Broadband” and “Broadband Discussions” forums into a single “General Broadband Discussions” forum

Please don't.

 

[Telkom]

Please don't.

Hi there

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[morkhans]

Merge “First posts and forum questions” with “Forum suggestions” forums

Sounds like a bad idea. First posts a generally one off meaningless posts, whereas forum suggestions would generate discussions. Merge questions and suggestions and keep a sub or other forum for First Posts.

Merge the “Mobile Broadband” and “Broadband Discussions” forums into a single “General Broadband Discussions” forum

Please don't. Mobile and Fixed Broadband are very distinct in technology and discussions. I think there is enough traffic in both to warrant keeping them separate.

Move “Do you remember” as a sub-forum under Off-Topic

Sure

Move “World of Warcarft and Diablo” and “Gaming Consoles” forums as a sub-section of Gaming forum. Should we maybe merge all these forums?

Sub forum yes, merge maybe not so good or move it all to mygaming?

Merge Olympics 2012 forum with general sports forum

Or just delete it. One off events don't really have much value once they are gone?

Close the current classifieds system, and move all classifieds to the forum (in the Classifieds forum). Users will therefore post their goods for sale in the forum. The same restrictions will hold as in the current classifieds system.

I know you've been hinting at this for a while. I like it as is, but I also understand the problem of maintaining 2 systems. If you are going to move this to normal forums then I suggest a firm review of the rules like Carbonite and sagamer have as well as a seller/buyer rating system like iTrader.

 

[chrisc]

Why not just delete the Olympics forum? As long as the posts don't disappear.

100% all those ideas. I have difficulty using the search function sometimes since it delivers more answers that I need, but maybe this is for future consideration.

 

[Tun@]

--Merge the “Mobile Broadband” and “Broadband Discussions” forums into a single “General Broadband Discussions” forum

I have the same thoughts as Morkhans re the mixing of ADSL fixed line & 3G Mobile

There is ADSL discussions & Broadband discussions why not merge those 2 & leave 3G as separate.

 

[Greggle]

I vote that we need voting buttons for each of these ... it would save you having to plough through lots of posts that are not directly giving you the feedback that you're asking for ... **thinks** ... **like this one**

 

[DJ...]

It is possible to exclude classifieds from the new posts search, which would be the only way I'd support it...

 

[ginggs]

Your PM bounced: "ginggs has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages until they clear some space."

@rpm: Will we get bigger PM boxes too?

Just kidding, I've done a spring clean.

 

[AfricanTech]

+1 on the voting buttons - that said,

happy with your "do you remember" and "olympics" move

 

[Tun@]

Looks like discussion is over anyhow

Thanks for the feedback.

Looks like most people feel that the Classifieds section should stay as it is now. We therefore implemented a change in both the Classifieds and Photo sections (gave it the same look as the forum) which should make it easier to maintain.

I will try to convince you again in a few months that a Classifieds move is clever

Will implement the other changes when the forum is quiet.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/474932-Mybroadband-forum-and-section-changes

me waits for 1st person to complain that they can't connect their ADSL using MDMA

 

[MickeyD]

Not touching the OT topics (yet!)

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