Forum Tweaks and Feedback:

[Loggahead]

All,

As you can see, I reorganized the forums. Let me know what you think about it! Several of you have mentioned having a separate forum for each profession, and I like that idea, but I am going to wait on making another 8 forums until we have enough usage to justify splitting the Professions forum into 8 separate sub forums.

I also have never been happy with this forum's page navigation and I found some CSS code and updated the whole site to a drop-down page navi. I like this much better than what it was originally.

All that said, let me know what you think about these newest changes and if you have any quirks or small things you'd like to see changed, post them here!

Also, just so everyone knows, I used to have a registered domain and hosted our own phpbb3 forums. I grew tired of constantly having to update phpbb and its database (it was a hassle trying to keep up). The forums got overrun with spam-bots when it got out of date. From there, I decided I wanted to use a free-hosted forum where it's in the best interest of the hosting company to keep their forums up to date and feature rich. I've been watching proboards and they're going to be coming out with a v5 soon which should add a lot of new features. Also, they give us a lot of freedom to play with the CSS code on this site so there is a lot of copy/paste code resources out there for different things.


-logga

[crowfl]

Logga you have done an awesome job of creating a usable fourm, not much I would add in addition to what you have already done, but thnx for asking. ;D

[riffraff]

Thanks, Logga, for all the hard work you've put into making the forums intuitive and easy to use! It would be nice to eventually have profession-specific forums, where could share builds and post links to useful references. And engage in some good-natured rivalry between the professions.

[pottedfern]

When I logged today I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the update to the forums! Thanks Logga for the hard work and effort you put into the forums and this guild!

[morgwath]

Is there a way to make a section that is only viewable by officers(forum moderators)? That way we could discuss things that the whole guild doesn't need to know about (drama, etc).

[Slovo]

It's much more organized than previously before, so that's a plus.

[kipp]

I like the changes. Keep up the good work!

[pottedfern]

Although I'm not an officer I think morgwath's suggestion is an excellent one. I do believe in transparency within a guild or team but some things should be discussed privately before being made public.

[Bishop96]

Great job Logga. Thanks.

[Loggahead]

Aug 19, 2012 9:42:58 GMT -6 morgwath said:

Is there a way to make a section that is only viewable by officers(forum moderators)? That way we could discuss things that the whole guild doesn't need to know about (drama, etc).

Absolutely. That's a great idea!

Question, should it be a forum under the GW2 category or under General?

[riffraff]

Oh, and we also need a forum for Altoholics Anonymous, for those of us who are unable to settle on a main.

[morgwath]

I'd say general since it would be about the forums as well as gw2

[jen]

I think the forums look great and getting better, easy to get around.

I agree with the separate officer/moderator section. There should be a private area for the officers to discuss guild matters. I believe as a whole we are against drama, so hopefully you won't have any of that additional stress to deal with.

[Phoenix]

Alt anonymous too funny for at least since they started announcing the professions I have been planning then revamping my five slots it was an issue with GW 1 that's how I ended up with 13 toons all with a specific purpose and style I also agree with the idea of a leadership forum

[Loggahead]

Aug 19, 2012 12:52:21 GMT -6 morgwath said:

I'd say general since it would be about the forums as well as gw2

Roger that! I'll have it up in a jiffy!

[Loggahead]

Aug 19, 2012 8:35:33 GMT -6 riffraff said:

Thanks, Logga, for all the hard work you've put into making the forums intuitive and easy to use! It would be nice to eventually have profession-specific forums, where could share builds and post links to useful references. And engage in some good-natured rivalry between the professions.

This has come up quite a bit and even though I said I would wait to do this, I went ahead an did it! Let me know what you think!

[Zypher Wynn]

Here Loggahead, for all your hard work.

[onestryke]

Oh yeah I like the looks much better. No more clicking cus i am right there. Great job.

[danomeon]

Adding a lot of these forum categories onto the front page makes it much easier to navigate around to specific pages without having to dive into sub-forums, as they're all up in my grille (Heh, I love that slang) right on the frontpage. I also dig the changes to the forums rankings. Words like "Ashes" and "Spark" spice up the forum-going experience quite a bit. Digging it!

[shobiz]

Looking good Logga, diggin the revamp. I also like the new ranking system