Better breakdown of forums

I think we should have more forums broken up into different areas. This will help everyone when looking for new info and browsing. Here are some forum names with some examples of what would be in them to start the discussion:

Video
- tv cards
- video card support
- cameras
Audio
- sound cards
Storage
- zip drives
- hard drive controllers
- scsi controllers
Scanners
Networking
Printers

We could then expand from there into a set of software forums.

Once these forums are in place, an effort to re-sort existing threads into the forum that best fits it would be appreciated. I'm willing to help if this software supports it.

doesn't really seem like a good use of time, there's nothign wrong with what's here already i think, and more forums will just lead to even more bloody double posting.

I'm pretty sure most people browse the site using the 'view new posts' link, and if they're after a certain problem, the search facility is fine. People generally don't bother tho, and post blindly anywa, somethign i think would happen more with more forums as as soon as you have the slightest ambiguity, such as a graphics card / mobo argument, it'll be even less clear where it should go, unless of course you start a forum for each potential conflict as well! ;-)

as long as you put a useful enough title on your posts, you should always find enough informatino here to help tiwh most things.

By your reasoning one single group should be used, no divisions, to hold every post.

One can find what they want using search and use new posts to do everything else.

It's a nuisance to see it done halfway, so I suggest the groups all be merged and the main page explain succinctly how to properly use the site (and hammer the server into submission in the process with what I can only guess are cpu and i/o-intensive searches).

no offense.. but that was only your 10th post ever...

it's not broke, don't fix it.

anyway, what are you meant to do with the old threads? i;m sure jeremy would let you sort throught the 10000 or so posts to categorise them yourself... if not, you'd have two different formats to deal with, making it daftly complicated to get info out of.

While I may break up the installation forum into hardware and software I agree that too many forums would lead to confusion. As always thanks for the input. BTW the search is slightly resource intensive, but really not that bad - much less resource intensive than answering the same question 101 times