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Should the forums be merged?

I know you can flit around the ten or so forums but it is a bit of a pain. As many of the topics are not local, and even the local ones maybe of wider interest, why not merge the forums into one? If not some seem to be heading to extinction.

Philip Coe ● 3744d4 Comments

I think it's been mentioned before, but this is a really ancient style of Forum and it makes following long threads very time-consuming. If a way could be found to provide a lnk to a proprietary Forum Hosting site, such as ProBoards (a free site but with advertising), where each topic can be shown in its own section and can be read sequentially without needing to wait for the system to reload between requests this would make the Forum much more user-friendly.I subscribe to one such Forum and if applied to these borough fora, each borough can have its own main heading and each topic its own sub heading:For example,(Primary Layer) - 'West London's local fora'(Secondary - 'Ealing ', 'Chiswick', etc(Tertiary) - 'individual topic heading', etc.Topics can be created in similar fashion to now, but the overall experience of using the Forum would be immesurably better.I believe such a system can be operated with or without 'moderation', but would need coordination between present 'owners' to set up.Something to think about, perhaps?

Russell Maiden ● 3740d

All that would happen would be that many specificallyEaling related threads would soon be relegated to page 2 or page 3, and generate even less of a response than they do now.michael adams

Michael Adams ● 3740d

No, it's hard enough to follow some threads now.

Keith Iddon ● 3740d

They are rather clunky.  It was useful for practising posting photos but I never did enough of that to remember how and it seems to have changed a little since then.  They are easy to dip in and out of.

Philippa Bond ● 3740d