[Sine]

that don't belong in this forum, we'd like to remind our members that there are a number of OS X forums to post in, and users should use the support forum for support topics. Thanks for your assistance in keeping the threads properly distributed."

Maybe that should be telling you that 6 OS X threads are 5 too many. Some of your separate forums are Redundant and not needed.

MacNN always gets commented on how it's many different forum categories are redundant and can be a PITA.

[rjenkinson]

here's what i think should be done.

• merge OS X developer with OS X UNIX.
• merge OS X general with OS X support
• merge art & graphic design with multimedia & DV and web developer
• merge PDA with peripherals

or something like that.

-r.

[gorgonzola]

Actually, we're considering merging some forums; the reason that it was originally done was because one single forum couldn't handle the traffic, and the forum kept crashing. We have a lot more horsepower behind the forums though, and we definitely have a lot of flab here and there -- some forums are completely dead and should just be axed.

The reason we haven't done this since moving to our new server is primarily because (a) we were tired and (b) because we were considering jumping ship entirely to a different BB system such as vBulletin. Managing Forums in vB is a lot easier, and we'd save a lot of time merging forums in vB as opposed to doing it in UBB.

There's going to be major renovations taking place all across the network over the next few months: osx.macnn.com is being redesigned (well under way), reviews.macnn.com is going to be redesigned and updated (it's way obsolete now), we're going to clean up the forums by merging some and axing others, we're reviving AppleInsider, and we're likely going to set up an IRC chat server on one of our spare machines.

There's a lot of stuff going on right now, but I fully agree that the forums need a thorough rethinking.

[Sine]

Cool deal

[Nebagakid]

Originally posted by gorgonzola:
<STRONG> we're reviving AppleInsider, and we're likely going to set up an IRC chat server on one of our spare machines.

There's a lot of stuff going on right now, but I fully agree that the forums need a thorough rethinking.</STRONG>

Uhhh, you already have a fine Java based chat thingy. ONE, you can launch within the Java dingy in OS X or from a web broswer. Also, you guys dont promote that thing enough....it could be a powerful resource.

And about AppleInsider, it was dead before you closed it. The side bar was never updated!