Forum improvements & suggestions

[magnetronnie]

I have a few suggestions for the forum, let me know what you all think.

Can we have a separate forum for Articles? instead of posting them all in General

Can we include the word "Audio" in the Pics & Vids forum? We also post a lot of radio interviews there.


And something totally different and this is more question to the admins here. Are you happy with the free forum hosting at proboards? Because if you want I can give you your own space at GooGooFans... for example ls.googoofans.com ? That way the forum will stay online forever and I can run weekly or even daily backups, in case of a server crash. I don't know how these things are arranged at Proboards and personally I rather host a website myself than to rely on a company.
Another possibility is to host the website at the GGF server, but on our own domain. For example www.luckystarforum.net is still free. That way we "own" the forum ourself, but there's no direct link to GGF.

Let me know what you all think.
And if you have any ideas of your own, please share them!

[HereIsGone]

I'll change the P/V to add the word audio but I think it would be unnecessary to have a separate section for articles because it would greatly cut into the amount of things posted in the general section other than opinion-related topics.

As for the forum hosting, I don't see the need to move to an actual site separate from the proboards because the layout is simple and easy to use and is enough for our purposes -- if that were to change for whatever reason, I'd maybe consider it in the future. The free hosting and user-friendly setup is something I honestly can't complain about and it hasn't gone down enough to warrant switching (the 2 times that I remember being between long intervals without malfunctions). Plus, I am not that well-versed in coding (basic HTML certainly would not do) to be able to do maintenance myself. Call me a control freak, but I like being able to do things and not be completely and hopelessly reliant on others.

[magnetronnie]

Cool.

I looked into it a bit deeper and apparently you can't just install Proboards on your own webserver and on top of that you can export/copy the current posts and members, so it's not a very good idea after all.

Howevery our own domain name is still possible if anyone would want that!

[TuckedAway]

I won't lie, I kinda love the idea for having a separate section for articles/professional reviews... Well, Erica, you know how I like to subdivide and have places for everything, etc...

So, I'd actually really like to take THAT into consideration... Have the General Section being opinion-things is fine with me... I mean, we'll be having new music VERY SOON; we'll always have things from IM to which to react... And there'll be music videos soon; TV performances to talk about/remind each other about, etc... I mean, I imagine our General section basically becoming the OMG I LOVE [INSERT SOMETHING SONG HERE] section in about a month anyway...

Oh, and our own domain name? Oh, wowwww.....

[stoptheworld]

Thanks for these neat suggestions, Ronnie! I'd love to have a separate section for articles, too. That would make it easy for us to look them up should we want to go through them again. And we'll be sure to keep the domain name idea in our little idea box.

Keep the suggestions coming. You guys make this place what it is and we'd love to hear more of your ideas. Please feel free to PM any of us admins or post here if you have anything in mind.

[12565]

It would be great if the articles were cross referenced by date & city. When is Ronnie gonna update googoofans.com?

[HereIsGone]

Just a note guys. I've added two more lower-end classes. Amigone and Tucked Away. Very small increments for both but it'll help the lurker problem we seem to have.