Post by basicpatrick848 on Jul 5, 2008 23:01:56 GMT -4
I was bored this evening and was cathcing up on the site. I have some thoughts and figured I would share them here.
The new web site has been up and running for a while and in general, I think it is a great upgrade. I think we now see the user patterns established and it m ight be wise to consider some minor adjustments to adress the concerns some members have expressed regarding confusion of where to post what subjects,
I will throw out a couple of suggestions for the members and powers that be/website committee to consider.
1...Eliminate the "General Access Issues" forum and move these threads to the main or "MBBA General Discussion" forum. Everything we do is access related and there are a lot of threads with similar subject matters in both of these forums. combining these will make the site more simplified,
2...Change the name of the MBBA Happenings" forum to "MBBA Event Discusion". The term happennings is a bit wide open and this forum was/is supposed to be for MBBA Events. Let's call it that so no one is confused where to post subjects.
3...In another post I suggested that the separation of beach reports and comments of beach reports is nto working. I agree we need to separate formal beach reports from the beach reps but there are beaches where the reps have not updated info in a while and there is more current info in the comment sections. I suggest we combine the reports and duscussions forums but make the formal beach reps reports "sticky" and then lock them using moderator tools. Seems to accomplish the goal of making things more simple and keeping the formal reports at the top of the forums.
4...Since fishing is such a big part of what we do how about trying a new forum called "Fishing Discussion"
Just some thoughts from and interested member
Thanks to all that serve MBBA
The new web site has been up and running for a while and in general, I think it is a great upgrade. I think we now see the user patterns established and it m ight be wise to consider some minor adjustments to adress the concerns some members have expressed regarding confusion of where to post what subjects,
I will throw out a couple of suggestions for the members and powers that be/website committee to consider.
1...Eliminate the "General Access Issues" forum and move these threads to the main or "MBBA General Discussion" forum. Everything we do is access related and there are a lot of threads with similar subject matters in both of these forums. combining these will make the site more simplified,
2...Change the name of the MBBA Happenings" forum to "MBBA Event Discusion". The term happennings is a bit wide open and this forum was/is supposed to be for MBBA Events. Let's call it that so no one is confused where to post subjects.
3...In another post I suggested that the separation of beach reports and comments of beach reports is nto working. I agree we need to separate formal beach reports from the beach reps but there are beaches where the reps have not updated info in a while and there is more current info in the comment sections. I suggest we combine the reports and duscussions forums but make the formal beach reps reports "sticky" and then lock them using moderator tools. Seems to accomplish the goal of making things more simple and keeping the formal reports at the top of the forums.
4...Since fishing is such a big part of what we do how about trying a new forum called "Fishing Discussion"
Just some thoughts from and interested member
Thanks to all that serve MBBA