Re: Deleting posts, adding logo, changing text in headline

Posted by GregChapman on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Deleting-posts-adding-logo-changing-text-in-headline-tp7599943p7600138.html

I posted my last response before I saw that you have already worked out how to change back to a "forum" app and that you have now pinned your four topics.

That is a reasonable idea, as before you pinned them those four topics would have jumped around in the order depending on which topic most recently had a reply.

However, I'm not sure you are thinking far enough ahead - but I maybe misunderstanding the volume and nature of the content to expect your users to post.

For example, as a Brit, I imagine that even just half of California is a big place and that very soon, in the "Tournaments" topic there'll be posts about tournaments that take place in one city that will be of no interest to those in another 100 miles away and if people get into a heated discussion about one, the folk only interested in  another will never be able to find where their city/tournament is talked about.

Within a topic everything appears in date order so, in a popular site, the response about any one tournament may appear many posts below the the original post. It will become near impossible for a visitor to read about the bits they are interested in without having to wade through many posts of no interest.

Similarly under "Youth Soccer Injuries" I can imagine pretty soon they'll either be people wanting to discuss the different age groups affected by different types of injury, while others will only be interested the parts of the body affected.

In short, what you have as single topics, really need to be set up as Sub-forums, so that those who want to start a discussion on one tournament can create a topic within the Tournaments sub-forum about a single tournament and someone else can start a topic on the tournament that interests them and each can re-visit and quickly find just the information/response, they are interested in without having to wade through a lot of other material.

As you realised, when you looked at surfer.com site that's the very reason introductory text that explains the general range of topics to be discussed within that folder can be very helpful. Without sub-forums you you make it very difficult to let people find only the stuff they are interested in. That's what makes the "Category" app appealing. Otherwise you tend to need far more sub-forums covering a much tighter subject area with clearly differentiated names.

Why do people have filing cabinets with many drawers and each drawer with a number of folders inside - with every drawer and folder labelled? Because it makes things far easier to find things than if you just throw everything in one large bin! While you obviously realise this, I fear that you have only thought you need four drawers in your forum, and not realised that you need dozens of folders in each of them - all neatly labelled as sections of interest within the general subject of the sub-forum.