[FIXED] Suggestion for Full Releases forum...

[Link14716]

I hate the new full releases forum, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Here's what I think should be done about it:

Add a new profile field somewhere. If the user selects 'Yes', then display the Full Releases forum as it is now. If the user selects 'No', then display it as it used to be, without the subforums and with all of the hacks displayed in the main Full Releases forum. This would be a great solution, and I think it would work (naturally, when adding a new hack, you'll have to select the category the hack should be in, and it'd be put into its appropriate forum).

[filburt1]

The idea was to consolidate the hack database's structure and the Full Releases/Beta Hacks forums' storage and discussion ability. The new forums are now the best of both: categorized and contain discussions on the hacks themselves. Personally, I don't care for it, but I'm sure that's just because I'm not used to seeing it like this.

(side note, Xenon/Erwin: QR box is still tiny in Purple...)

[Link14716]

Yeah, I know, but I still think that there should be an option to switch back to the old style i.e. all in one forum.

EDIT: With each passing day my grammar seems to get worse.

[MaDCaT75]

I really dont like searching for all the hacks I installed for updated on them. I really would like it back the way it was before..... and wasnt it sorted into categories if you clicked on the full releases section itself? :ermm:

[Link14716]

*Bump*

I think this should be considered because I prefer to look for threads in 2 forums, not 18 of them.

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Link14716

*Bump*

I think this should be considered because I prefer to look for threads in 2 forums, not 18 of them.

I kinda think this is a good idea ..

[Logician]

After having so many hacks, single Full Releases forum became the bottle neck of vbulletin.org.

There are very good hacks forgotten in the mass of single Full Releases forum which was hosting hundreds of hacks. Everybody could use them but they just didn't know they existed. We even had dublicate hacks just because the author of the new hack didn't know it already exists. Why was it so? Because everybody was just fishing the hacks in the first a few pages of Full Releases section so the hacks which were recent or recently bumped get the whole attraction and all others were lost in the dust until somebody accidently bumps it.

With our growing number of released hacks, one forum was just not enough and also it was killing many old but nice hacks with its crowd. I believe this structure is much more convenient and it will become better in the future when admins create other ways for vb.org visitors to access "good hacks" other than checking the bumped threads of Full Releases forum.

My 2 cents.

[Chris M]

It will just take time to get used to

Satan

[Brad]

I think it is a good idea considering the number of hacks hosted here at vBulletin.org now a days.

I think this should be considered because I prefer to look for threads in 2 forums, not 18 of them.

True there are more forums but it should be easyer to find what you are looking for now. Beats surfing through tons of pages in a forum if you ask me. And speaking of searching for a hack, use the search engine

[jbear6]

What used to be a 2 minute check through the "FULL RELEASES" Forum, will turn into thirty minutes of browsing 16 separate subforums. Sometimes simply is better. Wouldn't 15 members browsing one forum use less bandwidth than 15 members changing pages 50 times to check so many subforums?

My 2 Cents...
Jbear6