Any chance the "geek" headings can be re-jigged?

jesus_thats_gre

I know its been said before but the recent introduction of a Gadgets forum and its clasification has bothered me a little.. Its clasification under Science surely has to limit the amount of visitors it experiences. Also, the allocation of Home Entertainment under After Hours is a bit "out there" too.. I suggest renaming the Comp heading to Tech and introducing a Consumer Electronics heading.

Would it not be better to have the following:

Tech

.......Comp
..............Computers
..............Programming
..............Tweaking/Modding

.......Electronics (Consumer Electronics)
..............Mobiles/PDAs
..............Gadgets
..............Home Entertainment

.......Nets/Comms
..............Broadband
..............Nets/Comms
..............Security
..............Wireless

.......Operating Systems
..............Mac
..............Unix
..............VMS
..............Windows

.......Web
..............Web Hosting
..............Webmaster/Flash


I would appreciate if my suggestion was given some consideration as I am a regular user of most of there forums..

Thanks

aidan_walsh

My name is doodle, and I approve of this message.

Raphael

That does look far tidier...more appropriate too

garthv

i agree

po0k

Aye, looks a bit cleaner.

Cloud

Yeah it looks fine, but OS / Nets are subsets of Comp and it ain't so tidy then... We should thrash this out a bit. Certainly an Electronics group would be good. I guess you just left out the Web stuff by accident.

aidan_walsh

Yes. Accident.

/shifty eyes...

jesus_thats_gre

Woops left the web stuff out by "accident"

Moriarty

+1 slightly damp sock of approval

Capt'n Midnight

should there be an APPs section seperate to windows ?

helpdogscat

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

should there be an APPs section seperate to windows ?

don't think so, you would just be doubling the forums, windows/windows apps, mac/mac apps, unix/unix apps, think it would just cause unneeded clutter, tis ok as is

jesus_thats_gre

We need some input from the geeks and their mods..

dangerman

.......Web
..............Web Hosting
..............Webmaster/Flash

with the web hosting forum shut down for so long any chance we could just get rid of the web sub menu and just have webmaster/flash sitting in the main column? take the useful stickies from web hosting throw them into web master?

it may save a few of the web page threads from going into computers.

Victor

Is this a little long?

boards.ie/vbulletin > Comp > Electronics (Consumer Electronics) > Home Entertainment

Surely

boards.ie/vbulletin > Comp > Electronics > Home Entertainment

or

boards.ie/vbulletin > Comp > Consumer Electronics > Home Entertainment

Also with a maximum of 4 sub-categories, is there a risk of an un-necessary amount of branching (a file in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder )?

Peteee

<cliche>

I whole heartidly approve of this product and/or service

/me cuts ribbon and drives off in limo

</cliche>

jesus_thats_gre

Electronics (Consumer Electronics)

(Consumer Electronics) was added to provide a brief description of the content for the sake of the thread. It was not intended to be use in the drop down menus..

TCP/IP

jesus you have my full backing on this i think that it is an excellant idea

jesus_thats_gre

Is there gonig to be any movement on this?

jesus_thats_gre

So is it fair to say that everyone pretty much agrees?

roar_ie

Well i agree, tis a good idea

jesus_thats_gre

eh hello

Mercury_Tilt

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damien

Good suggestion jesus_thats_gre.

jesus_thats_gre

merc wrote:

Hi.

Hows it going?

asl?

jesus_thats_gre

Hi

Can someone have a look at this again?

Thanks

Winters

Never saw this before.

I add my support and ponderance as to why this hasnt been done already.

Chalk

totally awrsome idear.

perhaps move security to somewhere else in case anyone actually posts in it?

bringitdown

bumpdorsement

Goodshape

/nods approvingly.

GoneShootin

agreeage - for whats it worth

Trojan

I have opened a new Helpdesk ticket (198) for the attention of Cloud.

daveirl

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Creamy Goodness

Good idea, but I also have an idea.

There is too many posts in - comp >> computers since it's rename from Technology - that would be better associated with the windows forum.

Now I don't know how to impliment this but I just thought I'd throw the idea out there.

daveirl

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ecksor

If Security was put under Net / Comms I'd probably be forced to ban everyone who has posted on, no make that anyone who has read, this thread.

GoneShootin

Make sure you ban yourself while your at it!



please dont ban me

Rabies

Jebus Jesus, good idea.
I was looking for the Gadgets forum a day or two ago. Couldn't find it. Was expecting it to be under Comp not Sci
Home Entertainment should definitly be moved. Not really suited to Rec

jesus_thats_gre

yeah I fockin rock

Tar.Aldarion

Moriarty wrote:

+1 slightly damp sock of approval

i know his idea is great but doing that to a sock is wrong

support++

rsynnott

VMS??? VMS??? We don't have a VMS forum, do we?

mr_angry

rsynnott wrote:

VMS??? VMS??? We don't have a VMS forum, do we?

It seems to have replaced Mac in JTG's eyes.

It seems like a good idea, but no doubt it will take time to design and implement in the free time of the admins. I don't see the point in pimping it any further since both Cloud and Ecksor obviously know about it.

jesus_thats_gre

Shut up Angry

It seems to have been done woop woop woop







woop

Chalk

bualadh bos.

looks nifty.

muckwarrior

A definite improvement!

Steveire

Was there any posts in the technology forum? Where did they go?