more forums

i think there should be more forums because many of the current forums seem a bit congested and cluttered.

such as?

if you're suggesting a erdhat forum, a mandrake forum etc... then that has been asked a lot, have a erad through this forum for the reason they are not there.

creating more forums also makes it harder to find definite place for the threads to go.

not creating more forums makes it harder to find definite threads. i mean with thousand of post in the same forum im pretty sure many times that a question is asked repeatedly. you basically have to look through a ridiculous amount of post in order to find out if your question has been posted or not. i don't really know how to divide the forums i'm a realatively new user to linux but as an example, another website has three major categories programming, networks, databases, operating system, and video games. Each category is further divided into (programming-java,c++,visual basic,xml,html,phyton, and so on),(video games-xbox, playstation, game cube and so on), and divisions for the other categories as well in my opinion this is a much more effiecent implementaion of the forum system and isn't effiecency what computer scientist strive for.

splitting threads up doesn't mean there are LESS threads.. people should search everywhere...

you suggest programming being split up. we already have a dilema of where to put "PHP script failing on Apache"... programming? Networking? Software? what about "PHP XML::parse failing to generate HTML correctly on Apache"?

People are typically rather indescriminant about where they post threads, the number of threads we already shift around to more suitable categories...

I believe that a few more forums would be suitable, but only if they would genuinely generate enough specific input.

Too many forums I believe would just cause most to post in the wrong forum. Also I've seen those forums where they have dozens of different forums for each topic known to man and then you'll see the main General forum at the top with the most posts/threads, etc.

More forums to me wouldn't fix a problem like this, only create more posting in the wrong forums as we now have members who can't get it right with the amount we have.

I feel ours is just fine as it is, I am sure LQ will continue to grow and evolve as more members are joining and posting. But adding more forums right now isn't the solution, as there are always going to just be a number of threads added each day to make the number of threads/posts keep going up in all the forums.

i agree. i have to linit how many forums i visit already because of their number. although a five word per post story forum wouldnt hurt

finally someone on my side.

Originally posted by blacbastard finally someone on my side.

who?you dont mean me do you> i am actually in favour of trimming the number of forums. specifically the general forum.

thats linux general, not general general

no, he was saying there are already too many.