Do People Like Boards with A LOT of Forums?

[kiFF]

Do you prefer boards with a lot of forums and categories, or a smaller number of forums?

For example, if you have an off-topic section on your board, do you like to see a separate forum for Music, Sports, Television, Books, etc...or just "General Discussion"?

[Athanatos]

Smaller number. I hate it cluttered.

[Alfa1]

People like busy forums. If a forum gets too busy, then it should be divided into more forums.

I started with 4 forums. Now I have 190.

[no mods]

Bigger the site, more sections, I say.

[Justine]

start small then go big ... no one likes an 'empty' site

[neonneon]

Exactly. Start with Basic, solid sections, then branch off later.

[Shelley_c]

There's nothing better than knowing when you visit a board with scores of forums that you'll have a bruised and battered finger with excess scrolling. Personally, I love the whole ruff and tumble of it all.

Unless a forum is active with a lot of forums I don't mind to much if the content is beneficial to my needs. If someone (and I've seen it many times) creates like a billion forums whilst starting out on a new board I'll turn away.

[cheat-master30]

Depends how popular the forum is. Is it brand new and those forums are empty? Then I don't particular like that nor do a lot of people. Is it a busy forum where all the forums are relatively full? Then that's fine.

[Mum]

Def start small. No one likes heaps of empty forums.

[popowich]

As long as you can keep the active, the more forums the better.

Nothing worse than a site full of inactive forums, except maybe forums locked out to guests!

-Raymond