Lum, you are of course the Supreme Dictator, but is 15 subforums really what you want? Your prerogative if so, but really? League of Game Players could go back into PC/Console gaming, Traditional Gaming could go into either PC/Console Gaming or Entertaining Diversions, and the Dark Souls forum...I guess there is probably a good reason for that.
Personally I think the Dark Souls forum is a bit silly - we did fine for nearly a year with a single thread!
Why is the total number of subforums a concern? Does it impede anyone's ability to find and participate in threads? IMO you're unlikely to get Lum to revisit very recent decisions about organization. Especially with "but omg there's so many!!1!1" as your only rationale for doing so.
What are these forums you speak of? I use 'What's new?' and see one nice long list. Specific forums for things I don't care about allows me to use the new fancy user interface and exclude those forums from my list. I approve.
Lum, the current situation is great, but doesn't go far enough. We need to divide the PC gaming forum into subfora for each letter of the alphabet, to keep things more neatly organized.
Am I wrong in assuming the Dark Souls forum is a joke that will get changed back shortly? It's not like threads were falling off of the front page of the PC/Console games forum at an alarming rate. That's awesome if you check it frequently and on you PC. If you haven't checked in a while, everything is new and What's New is not the most efficient way to go through the threads that are of the most interest to you at the moment. Similar deal on a phone except you're losing efficiency by only being able to see a little bit of the What's New list at a time (also, as far as I can tell, Tapatalk doesn't let you block certain subforums from "What's New?"). Hypothetically, if I had missed a Dark Souls 2 announcement thread because I'm not playing Dark Souls at the moment and didn't check the Dark Souls forum, I'd be very sad. Very sad indeed.
I hope not. I sure wasn't joking when I asked for it in the Dark Souls 2 thread and I don't think Charles was joking when he prompted Lum to make it this morning either. We've already got threads there for things that aren't practical in the uber-thread, with more to come I'm sure. It's obviously never going to be like the LP forum or anything, but I could see it holding a good half-dozen ongoing threads with additional threads cropping up with some regularity, which a) is really nice from the perspective of someone who likes to talk about Dark Souls a lot and b) would be way too much of an irritant to everyone else if it was done in the main gaming forum.
I didn't, it wasn't rhetorical. I don't think the OP is very useful as-is, that's why I asked. If these subforums are really causing problems, specific examples would probably help (like yours).
I approve of this. "A Forum For Games What Kill You A Lot" would cover Dark Souls/Demon's Souls and have a bit more content than the current solution. We could have, say, an F-Zero GX time attack thread there. (...language is probably not worksafe) As opposed to a forum for three games - it'd be Grimdark Grognard Zone, In Which There Is Only War, Weeaboo Zone Kawaii Desu Ne ^v^, and Super Masochist Plus XVII Zone: Hurt Me Good, Baby.
I don't mind that idea (although I don't think of Dark Souls as masochistic, but that's a big derail that has been done to death already).
The real question is does the Dark Souls PeenVPeen thread go in the Dark Souls sub-forum or the League of Extraordinary Game Players sub-forum?
"Masochism" with regards to games that aren't genuinely bad is just a joke, really; the distinction is in how you're expected to perform, and how it's treated when you fail. I would argue that matching a misstep with YOU DIED. / OFF COURSE! RETIRED. / generic game over screen / etc. can be called a noticeable difference from the slap-on-the-wrist given in many major titles, wherein you can completely botch a run and still make it to the end without a death.
I only peruse the Dark Souls thread now and then these days, but a) it seems like everything that needs to be said about the game could fit in 2 or 3 threads and b) I'd be very surprised if the forum remains more active than 2 or 3 threads for more than a few more months. But I could be wrong. I think you're only half-serious, but having to figure out whether a game is hardcore enough to be in a separate forum would be even more ridiculous.
Well if "Just Dark Souls" is too much, what about a forum for in-depth game discussion, where you put threads about just certain aspects of games, with any number of threads allowed per game? This would handle other things that come along sometimes too... didn't Diablo 3 have a few in-depth threads in addition to the more general one?
Am I the only one who doesn't even pay attention to the individual forums? I just hit the "What's new" link and skim the thread titles until I see something new that I want to read, then control-click to open the thread in a new tab. Repeat a few times a day. If anything I wish I could filter the what's new list by subforum, mainly to get rid of all the Let's Play stuff that clutters it up. And if I could do that, I'd be in favor of more subforums to facilitate the filtering.
Only if Endless discussion of Bioware romance subplots is a thread. I'm So tired of seeing that discussion in seventeen different threads on the forum.
Why isn't the Dark Souls forum one of the Social Forums, anyway? That seems like it'd be a more appropriate location for it.
I believe he actually did that briefly this morning. The problem is that when a forum has a subforum this software separates and groups them, so you get a box with PC/Console with Dark Souls under it, then a second box with the rest.
Because the social forums functionality is completely broken. Anyway I approve of the idea of renaming the forum to Hardcore Renaissance or something similar; if people want to give specific threads which dive into minutia of games on multiple levels, it seems valid to me. I just didn't want to end up with 6-7 active Dark Souls thread on the games forum which would constantly push other threads off the front page. edit: Maybe we should name it: LAWYER'D!
Is that a new feature? I've looked for it before. And does it work? Because I just set it, and I'm still seeing a bunch of subforums I don't have selected showing up when I click "what's new"
Nevermind, my own mistake, it works the opposite of how I would expect, I need to pay attention to the text.
