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Subject: Re: Alternative (Better?) forum format

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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