Too Radical?
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I have been reading all the post about the future direction of these forums and I had a few ideas.
Within the last few days, Coen and this community has recaptured some of the “magic” of the early SketchUp forums. In an effort to preserve this, I propose that this site become less of a technical/how-to site and more of a social hangout. The Corner Bar and Gallery have always been my favorite forums. Judging by the current forum posts, they may be your favorites too.
My thinking is, why duplicate or compete with what is already available. I personally do not think we should try to re-create the old SketchUp Forums and I think we should leave all the technical info, high band-width stuff and how-to questions to GoogleGroups. I think this would save Coen a lot of money on band-width and simplify his life.
Also, I have never liked having to skip from forum to forum looking for the latest post. I know there are buttons for showing all the newest post, etc. But why not just simplify things and dump all of the post into a single forum? I have seen a few other forums that did not have sub-forums and they seemed a lot easier to navigate. Maybe this could look like: The English Forum, The German Forum, The Dutch Forum, etc…I think this could work well with a possible new name that Coen mentioned a few days ago: SketchUnation.
….Just ideas.
poster-RoyBrown
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Geeez, I would hate to have everything mixed together.. I like the organization - maybe because I don't have any! It is nice to have the latest posts link - I find that the most useful - actually here it is more useful because it is unread threads that show up - not all the latest.. that rocks.
I like the social stuff - as you have likely noticed - but being here and seeing some of the posted work is spurring me on to get out of my rut and do something cool - only time will tell if action is taken, but I like the techincal aspect too.
poster-Shaun Tennant
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I like the organization of the current layout.
I can focus on the areas I am interested in. Sometimes there are posts with "off-forum" titles and if they are all lumped into one it would be, IMHO, cumbersome to sift through.
I can be relatively sure that if I go to the Layout Forum I will be viewing posts that have to do with Layout, whatever the title may be.My $.02
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