Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 07:25:46 12/09/01
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On December 08, 2001 at 22:47:37, Mike S. wrote: >On December 08, 2001 at 18:47:54, Edward Seid wrote: > >>(...) >>I welcome any comments and suggestions. I'm especially interested in knowing if >>the forum categories that I've chosen are complete for its intended userbase, >>Winboard users and programmers. Which ones need to be added/deleted/subdivided? > >I have seen similar attempts with german language chess forums. That type of >software seems to suggest that the topic is divided in several sub-fora. This >may work fine for other fields of interest, i.e. computers in general, if there >are enough visitors. > >For computer chess, or WinBoard especially, the problem will be that there are >not enough visitors and postings in every (sub-)forum. Also, people will not >find it comfortable to switch from one forum to the next at the list, to see all >the content. > >It's better to have all the postings at one page. But the idea of grouping the >postings by topics, could probably be done by labels which could be attached to >the postings each (one or more, depending to what topic(s) it belongs). Then, >users should be able to define filter settings easily, i.e. to see only >testpositions, only engine news, only match results or whatever - or, most of >the time, all (new) postings at once to browse through them. > >That would combine the benefits IMO. I don't know though, if a forum software >exists which can do this. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl > >P.S.: >We don't have too much daily new computer chess postings on this planet anyway, >although it may seem so, sometimes (but only if you really read everything). I >know 3 or 4 computer chess message boards with good traffic, and another 2 or 3 >which have lesser postings but survive. Gues what very intresting posts wich where made here did not get 1 response Namely my anelyzes. Regards Marc van Hal
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