Forums reorganization

[eyezberg]

Don't know who did that, but: WELL DONE!
Much clearer and logically grouped, easier to collapse parts you don't use.
One thing only: there's is now sub-forums for Q&T in both 1.0 and 1.5 dev forums, and another one in "Working groups"!?
Might confuse and lead to double posts when not aware it's already posted in the other one.
still WIP maybe?

[RobInk]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the heads up, will be looking at this and see if it needs changing.

Regards Robin

[brad]

It was a team decision to rearrange. As Rob says, we will look at this issue though.

[eyezberg]

Maybe, while you're at it,
group security and performance together, then
group converting, installation and upgrading
and the long Joomla! forums list will be nicely separated too..

[brad]

Security and performance are quite different.

Converting/Upgrading might be grouped. Installation is always a separate issue though.

[Jinx]

Don't know who did that, but: WELL DONE!
Much clearer and logically grouped, easier to collapse parts you don't use.

Hi Joe,

As we wrote in our announcement a few weeks ago, we are in progress of making certain structural changes. The forum restructuring is a first visible result of this work.

Johan

[mikecook]

As we wrote in our announcement a few weeks ago, we are in progress of making certain structural changes.

I was unable to find the announcement you mention and as I am still very new to the world of Joomla I may be somewhat misguided but...


I've been surfing the forums for a few weeks now and realise I can get lost in here for days amongst all this wealth of information. Now from what I read about the new version the changes or so substantial that much of the information between 1 and 1.5 are not going to be interchangeable. Would having a specific J! 1.5 forum be the answer?

I can imagine the exclamations of disapproval from many people on doing something as drastic as this and in many ways I would likely agree. Certainly the 1.5 forum would be quite sparse for a time, though in the long term I am sure it would benefit both users and developers in discussing the new J! version.

When the beta is released would then not be the perfect time to have separate forums?

-- Mike

[brad]

Joomla 1.5 forum: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,304.0.html

[mikecook]

Yes I have seen this section...maybe I should clarify a little more.

I was thinking more in the sense of the main links off the forums front page.

Joomla!

• FAQs - Please Read First
• General Questions
• Installation
• Upgrading
• Security
• Administration
• Language
• Performance

...etc. These are the first places users will visit.

When you visit these, from what I can see, the information is (as expected) orientated toward J! 1.0.x users. When J! 1.5 is released I am sure these areas will reflect appropriately. My thoughts were for the users who would still use 1.0.x and need support from the community. Having two distinct areas for the two versions means neither side would have to trawl through pages of info that doesn't concern them.

Maybe having completely separate forums is not a viable option. It was just a thought.

-- Mike

[brad]

Sure, when the time comes we will make provision for everyone

[mcsolas]

The forums are well organized, but the child boards are 1) hard to read 2) hard to distinguish between them and the moderators. Its probably because they are styled *exactly* the same.

From a semantic markup / UI perspective, thats a pretty big no no.

I really think that the child boards deserve a little 'more' space in the ui.

Showing the forums moderators in the forums section page (index.php) is a bit redundant.
The forum details pages show who moderates them, and thats where that info is more applicable.

It is my suggestion that you nix the moderators from the index and make the child boards bigger. I think you will find a much more navigable forum when its all said and done