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O.P. RE: TechTalk moving
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A bit yeah. But like others have said also, adding a new forum requires a demand (like "programming"). Although it could be the otherway around also. But it is more tricky not to end up with an "empty" forum in that way....

IF there is a new forum added, I personaly think it should be "Programming", as this is the one topic that comes back regulary.... But maybe that is another (old) discussion.
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Messenger and Tech Talk are in the same category simply because they fit together nicely and don't fit in any other categories.  Maybe you could call it "Technology" or something if we're being pedantic. 
They don't fit together if you follow my reasoning. And the reason of "they don't fit anywhere else, so let's put them together" isn't a very good reason IMHO.

They didn't fit anywhere in the past maybe, but reading all the threads in TechTalk makes me think that TechTalk is one big general forum about everything (hence general) that has to with Tech-stuff...

Messenger is also tech-stuff (in that way they fit together, yes, true), but it is something very specific and thus doesn't belong to something "General". So there is the big difference that I wanted to note about... they don't fit together....

If you make the difference between "General"-forum and "Messenger & Technology"-forum being: one is tech/computing related, the others not, then "Forum & Website" and some topics in "General Chit Chat", etc... are also misplaced, so that doesn't work also.

So, I still come back to the one (and IMHO only) solution of moving the subforum "TechTalk" to the "General" section....

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Like... what's with the suggestion of a Bug Reports forum for messenger?
That was just a wild example that you could add more subforums about Messenger itself... (and there were/are bug reports about Messenger itself btw)

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RE: TechTalk moving
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          General Technology
              MSN/Windows Messenger
              Microsoft Windows
              Programming
              General Tech Talk
           General
              Forum & Website
              General Chit Chat
              Testing & Trashing

I think that would increase server load, which is not wot we want.

Also there is no point moving forums, it would look stupid if there was only one topic forum in a category.

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O.P. RE: TechTalk moving
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I think that would increase server load, which is not wot we want.
That doesn't make any sense...
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Also there is no point moving forums, it would look stupid if there was only one topic forum in a category.
No it would not look stupid! It will look like there is only 1 subforum in a forum, nothing wrong in that...

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RE: TechTalk moving
Okay okay, enough! :P

More then enough points have been made, WDZ will decide when he reads this and discussion will be made after about new forums and stuff.
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RE: TechTalk moving
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Originally posted by Mippo
I think it's just called Messenger & Technology because it has the MSN Messenger and the Tech Talk forums in it, not because it's about Technology with Messenger... :S
Exactly. :p

I think those forums go well together. The "General" category is like the "fun" and off-topic part of the forums, while the others are for more serious technical stuff. Also, if Tech Talk was moved, Messenger would be all alone in it's own category, thus kinda defeating the purpose of a category. :-/

Edit: I'm not replying to the whole thread right now, because I don't have time... I'll be back though. :p

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RE: TechTalk moving
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I think those forums go well together. The "General" category is like the "fun" and off-topic part of the forums

if that is the case, maybe you should move this forum to the top category and rename announcments, as i dont think this is an off topic and fun forum


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I think that would increase server load, which is not wot we want.
That doesn't make any sense...

I would of thaught that having more forums on the front page would increase the amount of sql queries being made on the front page, and therefore increase the server load. I dont know how myBB is coded, but that is what i would think. (i was talking with regard to your suggested layout:

          General Technology
              MSN/Windows Messenger
              Microsoft Windows
              Programming
              General Tech Talk
           General
              Forum & Website
              General Chit Chat
              Testing & Trashing

its adding an extra two forums
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O.P. RE: TechTalk moving
If you read my post (and the others) again you proberly see that it was only to make an example, nothing more... Furthermore, my first request was to move TechTalk, this doesn't do a single thing on the serverload...
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RE: TechTalk moving
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if that is the case, maybe you should move this forum to the top category and rename announcments, as i dont think this is an off topic and fun forum
This forum isn't important enough to be at the top. :p

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I would of thaught that having more forums on the front page would increase the amount of sql queries being made on the front page
Well, you're wrong. ;)
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