Klee Panel Thread? Should we split again?

fonik · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:23 pm Post subject:

good to have all the klee at one place!

would it be possible or desirable to move the thomas henry and the klee forum into the diy forum? kind of subforum? actually it IS diy. would apply to MFOS too.

blue hell · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject:

Matthias the move you suggest is possible, whether it's desirable I don't know Very Happy

When I made the new Klee forum I first made it in DIY, but that looked ugly somehow and so I lifted it up, this can be changed though.

There has been a mention of lifting the DIY forum in it's entirety up one level to make it a top level forum just like the Clavia forum. The contribution count on DIY would certainly justify such a move IMO.

So thanks for bringing the subject up !

fonik · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:46 pm Post subject:

blue hell · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject:

If we would move DIY up it seems natural to have TH and Klee in DIY, but as things are now they are very much hidden when in DIY. Circuit bending as well I guess, and maybe some software stuff even .. like ChucK.

Just throwing up some ideas here to see where they would fall Very Happy

blue hell · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:15 am Post subject:

Not falling anywhere?

v-un-v · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:34 am Post subject:

EdisonRex · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:43 am Post subject:

yeah, the traffic on DIY and its children is impressive. Anything to make it more manageable. I don't have the answer though.

v-un-v · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:49 am Post subject:

blue hell · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:39 pm Post subject:

Just moving DIY up would not make it better accessible ... it would need sub forums probably for that ... hmm well what else do we have for structuring ...

blue hell · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:23 pm Post subject:

A suggestion :

Scott Stites · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject:

I've been wondering a while if we shouldn't create a Juergen Haible subforum. Not that I want to get carried away with fora, but he's such a powerhouse, it might help people make sense of everything he's got on the table. A "Juergen Haible Designs" forum maybe? And how about an Ian Fritz forum, for that matter?

I do worry about getting things too dissipated, but I know for a fact splitting the Klee into a separate forum really helped a lot.

blue hell · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject:

Good idea, I just added those to the list, of course we don't need 'm all.

blue hell · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject:

I'm not getting too many reactions on this and I'm not sure what that means.

It could mean that people don't care, but it could also mean aproval or disapproval. So I'd like to see some more reactions Very Happy

I think the DIY section would benefit from some subsections, but this is something that I really don't want to push, if only it were because splitting it would mean moving a lot of posts to sub-fora and that job would be much lighter if many people could help.

EdisonRex · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject:

I have been thinking about it, but haven't come out with a position yet.

Maybe tomorrow. sigh

blue hell · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject:

frijitz · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:20 pm Post subject:

frijitz · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject:

fonik · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:20 am Post subject:

good points. on the other hand due to the large amount of activities threads get buried very fast.

currently i have 3 shortcuts on my desktop: TH, KLEE & DIY. i would be fine with afew more.

or what about one main forum "DIY" with additional subforums (MFOS, TH, KLEE) on top of the DIY threads, just like this mod helper forum? (hope i was able to express what i actually meant).

Scott Stites · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:07 am Post subject:

Scott Stites · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:24 am Post subject:

Also, we should consider asking someone (JH in particular) if he would want something like that.

To return to the idea of the subfora listing at top, if it were arranged like they are now, with the topic of the last post to the side of the page, then it would make it even more obvious that it was there at all.

It all boils down to the fact the people are generally creatures of habit - my habit is to go to DIY Synth Forum and peruse that. The fact that I have the Klee and TH forums at the back of my brain is the only thing that ensures that I look at them, else, I wouldn't really look for them. If that forum is staring me in the face when I get to my first destination, I'm much more likely to (A) Remember its existence and (B) Click on it.

frijitz · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:37 am Post subject:

This proposal is going to automatically fragment discussion of any new project into many threads and the cohesion of the topic will be lost. It's fine that you have your Klee subforum. But if somebody starts a new project, then its theory belongs in one place, its PCB offer in another, its building thread in another and its panel in another. You didn't have to worry about that with your project. What would you have done if you had six choices of where to put it, knowing that most people only followed a few topics?

It's true that many posts scroll away quickly. But isn't that just because there isn't much intertest in them? And can't they just be bumped up again if there is a reason to do so? Your proposal is just going to scatter post horizontally rather than vertically.

"As for the conundrum, well - wherever it landed (circuit bending, TH or Klee)"

Or Links, or Theory, or PCB offers, or Build Threads, or Project Presentations, or Panels .....

"that's where it would land. If we worried about that too much, we'd wind up like ... "

In other words, TS. If I were you I'd worry about this more now rather than later.

OK, that's all I have to say. Now where's that little button? .... Ah yes. Click.

Very Happy

Ian

blue hell · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:07 am Post subject:

Just for good order, the list I made of sub forums is a list of sub forums that I thought would be "possible". I didn't want to imply that we should have all of those.

The whole question is open as far as I'm concerned, so if we should have sub-forums and if yes what sub-forums, and if so it need not be be restrained to the list I posted either.

I just ran through the current topics thinking in what possible sub forum they might fit.

blue hell · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:14 am Post subject:

EdisonRex · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:16 am Post subject:

I have had a day of theraputic cleaning of my kitchen. It took all day, I cleaned a lot of surfaces, removed built up grime on the cupboard doors, mopped the floor, and got into details like the fingerprints on the walls and the switch plates, etc. It's a kind of Zen thing, when my kitchen is truly clean, I can think again.

I think we are making too much of these subforums. The Klee was a good move, because it is a e-m thing and will live on as its own subject. I think for now we should leave the rest as they are, until the next Big Thing comes up. I could almost justify Jurgen getting a forum, but I don't think now is the time.

I don't think there has to be a rush to re-organize, though. Caveat, it's my opinion, and worth what we've paid for it.

Scott Stites · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject: