Are we doing Forums the wrong way?

[bobster65]

Originally Posted by Reeve of shinra

Mr Eyes, very nice mod and a great idea.

i was thinking of something along similar lines -- how do I show the meat and potatoes (the social group threads, the forum topics, the new galleries and blog entries) to my users without getting lost in inrelevant information. User finds site, see main page with some articles, clicks forums, see forum listing, has to click the forum to see thread titles. Thats at least three to four levels deep and thats not even counting sub-forums and stuff.

I will have to give your mod a try!

A mod I am working on right now is similar to the solution that Mr Eyes shared with us integrated with YUI Tab View and YUI Drag-n-Drop..

Basically, each member will be able to create their own "Tabbed" forum Home along with traditional forum home layout. They have the choice of choosing any number or Categories and or Individual forums per tab (or standalone stacked) along with other types of content (Blogs, Social Groups, Albums, Reviews, Articles etc etc etc)...

For example ..

Forum Home page may look like this... (Traditional look, Tabbed look, Traditional look, Tabbed look, Traditional look)

A Traditional Category
- Forum 1
-- Sub Forum 1, Sub Forum 2
- Forum 2
__________________________________________________ ________
|Tab 1 _ Tab 2 _ Tab 3 _ Tab 4 (Each tab could be broke out like below) |
|_________________________________________________ _________

Tab 1
Traditional Category
- Forum 1
-- Sub Forum 1, Sub Forum 2
- Forum 2
- Forum 3

Tab 2
Recent Blogs

Tab 3
Social Groups Recent Posts

Tab 4
Image gallery

Another Traditional Category
- Forum 1
-- Sub Forum 1, Sub Forum 2
- Forum 2

__________________________________________________ ___________________
|Tab 5 | Tab 6 _ Tab 7_ Tab 8 _ Tab 9 (Tabs configured with different types of content)|
__________________________________________________ ___________________

Another Traditional Category
- Forum 1
-- Sub Forum 1, Sub Forum 2
- Forum 2

If you are a "Tab" lover, you could tab the hell out of it with multiple sets of Tabs .. if you hate tabs, you can create your own traditional layout or you can combo the two..

If it doesn't make sense.. I should have a concept done soon that better explains it (if anyone actually cares lol)