New Forum Organization

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edX

mac shaman
Once more, in an effort to make these forums better, we have made several changes to the names and descriptions of the forums. Several new forums have been added. Please take a few minutes to read the new names and descriptions before making any new posts. Hopefully they are more straightforward and understandable than in the past.

This reorganization has been the work of a collaborative effort of our mods and staff. We'd also like to thank TommyWillB for his invaluable input during the process as well.

If you still have any confusion about the new forums, feel free to ask questions.

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actually, most people have a pretty easy time using the cafe when they know that their question has nothing to do with macs or even computers. but every now and then somebody has a question that doesn't seem to fit any of the help threads - but they want help. or if enough people start posting a particular subject there, we might notice that it deserves it's own forum.

example = we debated about an audio forum and eventually decided against it. while some aspects of audio are covered under current forums, there are a few aspects that really aren't. now there is a place for any question you have about anything. or for people who can't figure out where something goes, we'll help.
 
Wow. I'm seeing to many forms. OVERLOAD.....

Constructive Criticism/Questioning....

So what's the difference between Apple News and Rumors & Apple General Discussion. Isn't all apple info newsworthy?

What's the difference between Mac OS X DTP, Graphics and Multimedia & The Net: Web Development. If you say the graphics one is for programs and the development is for coding then what's the difference between The Net: Web Development & The Net: Coding?

Also how about The Cafe & ???

I appreciate the fact that you want to keep this organized and easy to navigate but I feel that some categories are similar and I'm not sure where to put my questions at times.
 
Originally posted by twister
]Wow. I'm seeing too many forms. OVERLOAD.....

Constructive Criticism/Questioning....

So what's the difference between Apple News and Rumors & Apple General Discussion. Isn't all apple info newsworthy?
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well yea, i think it is. hence the new forum. General discussion allows a great place to share your enthusiasm with the latest build, your trip to the apple store, the speed of dual processors, etc. without it being news to anybody but you. also for apple related stuff that you just want to discuss without neccesarily telling apple what to do about it.

What's the difference between Mac OS X DTP, Graphics and Multimedia & The Net: Web Development. If you say the graphics one is for programs and the development is for coding then what's the difference between The Net: Web Development & The Net: Coding?
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web development is for building web sites and maintaining a server. it is for help configuring web apps that were coded by others. DTP is about creating the media you would use on a web site, or in a presentation, or for publication, etc. Coding is for help actually creating web apps from scratch.

Also how about The Cafe & ???
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yea, what Chevy said. most things posted here are expected to be moved to other forums with a marker left in that forum that allows us to track what kinds of things people are having difficulties finding the correct forum for. it's an experiment.

I appreciate the fact that you want to keep this organized and easy to navigate but I feel that some categories are similar and I'm not sure where to put my questions at times.
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well, overall this grew out of similar criticisms of the previous organization. We've attempted to seperate out some popular subjects so that some of the more 'popular' forums don't see as many posts get lost in the qunatities of posts.

i would suggest that you spend a few minutes on the main forums page and read all the descriptions of each forum. We have tried to make the distinctions between them as clear as possible without writing a whole book chapter about each one.

in some ways, the new organization is an experiment and it seems to be working as expected so far with the exception of the ??? forum. despite all the recent uproar, the site continues to grow and providing more organizational categories seems necessary for now.
 
no problem. we want this to work to make things easier and more efficient for people. we realize that changes always take a little adjusting to. and you're never a pain twister. (well, maybe never is too strong of a word :p )

seriously, we also realize that no organization is going to make sense to everybody. nor please everyone. but that is why we made this a group project that took over a month to complete. it's as close as we could get for now. but rest assured we're still monitering it and still open to suggestions on how to improve it in the future.
 
basicly ??? is the place where lost and confused posts go

(btw, can we change Mac OS X games to just games i feel that ut would be a more approprate place for GBA GC XBox GBASP PS1/2/3 then the café)
 
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