Too many forums?

[nickrout]

Well done to whoever set this up.

My one comment is that there seem to be too many forums. eg, 2 "Need an Installer" forums (one would do). Do you really need a separate forum for every region in the country? A single forum with separate threads might do. And do you really need 3 forums on DTT, 4 on DVB-S (plus a "Free to Air Satellite" and "Digital TV Programming" and a whole lot of PayTV forums).

Frankly I think its confusing, spreads the discussion too thinly, and could do with rationalisation.

[vinboy]

Well done to whoever set this up.

My one comment is that there seem to be too many forums. eg, 2 "Need an Installer" forums (one would do). Do you really need a separate forum for every region in the country? A single forum with separate threads might do. And do you really need 3 forums on DTT, 4 on DVB-S (plus a "Free to Air Satellite" and "Digital TV Programming" and a whole lot of PayTV forums).

Frankly I think its confusing, spreads the discussion too thinly, and could do with rationalisation.

Yes the forum list is a bit messy now.
I'm a newbie, and I think the forums are overkill.

Lets see what the experts say. They probably have their own opinions of why we need so many forums.

[nickrout]

Its certainly a matter of taste but I think it would be useful to see discussion on it.

[sub]

Yeah, I also think there is too many forums.

It'd be better to throw a pile of these into some 'Misc' forum or similar. As suggested above, you can always created a dedicated sticky thread for some of these things that have been currently allocated an entire sub forum. Some these are unlikely to ever see many posts.

[Apsattv]

Well done to whoever set this up.

My one comment is that there seem to be too many forums. eg, 2 "Need an Installer" forums (one would do). Do you really need a separate forum for every region in the country? A single forum with separate threads might do. And do you really need 3 forums on DTT, 4 on DVB-S (plus a "Free to Air Satellite" and "Digital TV Programming" and a whole lot of PayTV forums).

Frankly I think its confusing, spreads the discussion too thinly, and could do with rationalisation.

Well thats is the hard thing about setting up a forum picking out what subsections we need. I discussed that with Vin when we were setting it up. I will have a look at the list later to see if we need to revise some sections. But the Regional viewers sections are VERY important.

The reason for 2 Need an installer sections were that not all antenna installers do satellite. But you are right it probably could get cut to 1

[Apsattv]

Comment noted, yes the regional viewer forums will be moved into a sub forum in the DTT section. But still remain split per region it will be necessary to keep them in order as traffic will increase in those sections when signals are switched on March next year.

That should clear up %90 of the clutter off the front page

[Apsattv]

The idea for this forum was based on the Australian one
http://www.dtvforum.info/

[MrElectricity]

I'm sure a little fine tuning would help but personally a like the spread of sections as I can go straight to favorite ones for a read.:D

[grolschie]

Yeah, I also think there is too many forums.

It'd be better to throw a pile of these into some 'Misc' forum or similar. As suggested above, you can always created a dedicated sticky thread for some of these things that have been currently allocated an entire sub forum. Some these are unlikely to ever see many posts.

+1. Sticky regional threads might be better than individual forums.

[Apsattv]

+1. Sticky regional threads might be better than individual forums.

Disagree and you will see from the traffic they get once DTT goes live.

Nothing worse than trying to zap through a forum with a thread of 200 posts..