New Forum Software from Scratch

@andrewaagamer

It has been working using a pre-release version for quite some time (at least some months) now, as communicated here and there in the TripleA support category. I can only encourage people to ask and/or read the topics there.

However pre-releases might usually do have other issues, that is why pre-releases are not “officially” promoted. So it is always a good idea to install both versions side by side.

Most of the discussion about the structure of the new board has actually taken place over here…

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=37125.0
Axis and Allies.org Boards > General > Website/Forum Discussion > What should be the URL of the new forums?

…in a thread that’s actually about the name of the new URL, rather than here in this thread about the new forum organization – so I’m not sure where I should provide feedback.  The present thread seems like the most logical place to discuss ideas for the structure.

Speaking in very general terms: if any of the proposed small number of top-level categories were genuinely to have an inordinately large number of subcategories, in my mind this would be an indication that the top-level categories would need to be re-thought.  Ideally, the number of top-level and sub-level categories ought to be reasonable in both cases.  And if the only way to make one number reasonably small is to make the other number excessively large, no matter how they’re arranged, this might be an indication that a three-level structure is needed (though it wouldn’t be my first option, and though I wouldn’t go beyond three levels).

At any rate, it’s hard to express an opinion without seeing an outline of the entire proposed revised structure, with all the levels indicated.  Could we see what the draft structure currently is?

Posting non-minis stuff for trade is fine. I’ll eventually create a new board for it but in the meantime use the minis section.

Thanks. Yes, the forums will get a change too but that comes later.

@otahere34:

Looks amazing! Is the forum layout going to be the same as is or changed in someway? Looking great, can’t wait!

Yeah, most operating systems freak out when you have 250,000 files in the same directory.

That little box with article links is pretty cool.

Did not like the demotion DF?  I see you are back into 10th kicking Marine back to 11th again…

It should be noted that we have:
12 posters over 2000 posts
27 posters over 1000 posts
62 posters over  500 posts
170 posters at or over 100 posts
287 posters at or over 10 posts
1992 posters who have made at least 1 post
4338 total members

3 Heavy Bombers
4 Battleships
2 Aircraft Carriers
3 Bombers
14 Fighters
35 Submarines
34 Tanks
77 Artillery
And the balance Infantry.

To date there have been 112,411 posts to these forums.

That is a phenomenal success rate for a highly specialize online forum!

Congratulations to all of our members who have made this such a great online venue!

Nice look!
Quotes are a little tougher.
It seems to take longer to load/switch pages.
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