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Merging of a few forums

Marked

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Now that we have a good, full-proof system of topic prefixing and thus easily distinguish topics of different engines, I have been thinking of merging the forums in the Game Dev category.

 

At the moment, clearly there's a bit of confusion going on. The amount of topics in the wrong forum is frustrating. For me, I just have to read what forums are there and I know where it all goes. Why is that so hard? Apparently it is. One answer to that question is that we two types of forums in the Game Dev category: Engine specific and merged. For example, you have RMXP support topics in its own forum, but RMXP Scripts and resources are mixed with all others.

 

So the idea is to mix them all into one forum, and members are forced to use topic prefixing, so it should work out just fine. There shouldn't be any confusion.

 

Would look like this:

Game Development Discussion

Tools & Utilities

Projects & Teams

-Project Recruitment

Tutorials

-Official Tutorials

Engine Support

-RGSS Support

Resource Showcase & Critique

-Resource Requests

User Submitted Scripts

-Scripts Request

 

Nice and simple, right? Since I'm suggesting this, maybe I'm biased towards the idea. But, I'll try to deliver an appropriate list of pros and cons.

Pros

-Simple structure that reduces confusion on where to post

-Ability to expand on supported engines - if we include an engine in the topic prefixes, then it is considered an engine we support. Before we only supported RMXP/RMVX as we had specific forums for those engines

-Easier to make mods to list specific topics - for example, if i wanted to display all of the RMVX support topics on our VX homepage, I could easily to do as they have been prefixed

Cons

-Difficult to tell which engines are support on the forum for newbies

-the forums do not have the engine in their name and this affects SEO

 

 

Thats all I can think of right now :sweatdrop: Thoughts?


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Marked

Exactly, I don't see why newbies struggle to find to the correct forum either.

 

Oh, another advantage is grouping the general discussions together. There's an RMXP & RMVX general discussion forum, and also game dev discussion. So all these topics will be grouped into one.

 

I think this idea is a lot more efficient too. You've got all your game making needs covered by the different forums, then you sort your topics by prefixes. Allowing any number of engines to be supported.

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