Lincolnite: Lincoln's Online Community

I have a little suggestion to make, and feel free to disregard it as the ravings of a lunatic. Others might like the forums as they are, I just wanted to throw this out there…

I find that bulletin board systems - especially small ones with relatively few visitors, generally don’t benefit from having a lot of specialized places for topics. It just makes it look like people are not posting. I, personally, don’t mind if the sports topics or the reviews mingle with the more general topics, but I don’t know what others think. I don’t really like having to go to several different forums to read a new post or two in each.

I don’t know that I have any useful suggestions for reorganization, except that the Lincolnite forums might be better combined into one. Perhaps it could be more about meeting others in Lincoln and talking about whatever than talking specifically about Lincoln? I would guess that our common place will always be a focus.

I used to have another forum I visited frequently, until they divided every possible topic up into its own forum. I missed the joy of discovering something by accident.

(ps, I don’t mind having separate forums for website stuff and article discussion, that makes sense to me)

That’s a very valid point, Karin. It just so happens that I will be giving Lincolnite a fair bit of work over the next two weeks, so I’ll add that to my list of things to think about.

I’ll also throw a vote in for fewer forums.  Like Karin mentioned, with as few visitors we have, new posts get lost in the seemingly endless list of forums.  Plus, by the time you think about where your topic would be most appropriate, you forget what your topic was in the first place.  Categorization works best for forums with thousands of post per day, or per hour.  Seeing as Lincolnite isn’t one of them, I think we’d all benefit from less confusion in the forum layout.