Proposed Mybroadband forum changes: Your feedback needed

[pampoenskyf]

I'm agree with morkhans's assessment.
MickeyD's layout makes more sense than current layout
Olympic section - should be deleted

 

[rpm]

Thanks for the feedback. We implemented the changes which you guys approved, and left the sections alone which you said we should not change.

I think the next round may just moving one or two forums around, but we do not want to change so many things that people start to get disoriented

 

[koeksGHT]

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)...

Doesn't the extra system give it a bit more functionality and room to expand? If we limit it to the forums it won't be as easy to manage?

 

[j4ck455]

Doesn't the extra system give it a bit more functionality and room to expand? If we limit it to the forums it won't be as easy to manage?

The more systems one has running on a server, the more risk there is of being hacked, no system is 100% hack proof but it is silly to expose your server to more risks than is absolutely necessary.

I'm fairly sure that the reason many of us did not want on-forum classifieds threads was due to the clutter it used to create in the Today`s Posts list. It is technically possible to exclude threads from specific forums such that those threads are never displayed in the Today`s Posts list.

Purely based on the risk associated with difficult to maintain systems that are effectively obsolete, I would recommend canning the off-forum photos and classifieds sections, and using the on-forum equivalents especially if the on-forum classifieds threads do not show up in Today`s Posts by default.

[highlight]@rpm

On second thought, why not make it even easier, instead of using the Classifieds forum and having to exclude that forum from Today`s Posts, just create a Classifieds group, that way none of the classifieds posted in the group would appear in Today`s Posts and none of the posts in the group would increment post counts.

Possibly redirect the existing Classifieds forum to the new Classifieds Group the same way that the Cellular forum has redirect links in the MTN, Vodacom, Cell C forums.[/highlight]

 

[sajunky]

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.

+1
At least restore styleid=21. Old mobile style doesn't show indication of privated messages. New mobile style is useless.

 

[jxharding]

Rename "Software and Web Development" to indicate that it is about software development (including web), and not what a lot of people see it as , (Software e.g. Excel problems) (Web Development)

 

[LazyLion]

Not touching the OT topics (yet!)

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I like this idea!