My AUD$0.02...<br /><br />I agree with Rhodent. I like this site, but it's a bit of a nuisance going into so many forums to see what's changed. I mostly use the Recent Posts, but since I'm an intermittent lurker that doesn't work wonderfully either. (Unless we could page back through recent posts semi-indefinitely, hint, hint? ;D)<br /><br />I'm a member of several other BBs, and my favourite (motorsport-related ;D) only has about as many forums as there are categories (e.g. General, Tech Corner, Racing, etc.) here. In each forum, threads are ranked (ordered, actually) by the most recent post, with optional stickies of course. That works pretty well as discussions tend to evolve, and there's rarely any confusion about which forum a topic should be posted to. However, that site has been established for quite a few years and has many more members, so it doesn't need to provide inspiration about the sort of things you're allowed to discuss, as the many forums and descriptions on the front page of this site provide (I think that's a positive aspect of the current structure, btw).<br /><br /><br />[quote author=Eldron link=board=11;threadid=2725;start=0#23358 date=1039161041]How about 'ranking' the topics according to number of postings?<br /><br />That way the popular ones stay at the top and the 'specialist' ones that aren't surfed often are out of the way?<br />[/quote]<br /><br />If they were only ranked on number of postings I imagine it would be a bit inconvenient, because new topics would go straight to the end, and if/when people found them and started replying they'd end up mixed in with not-too-popular topics of all vintages.)
