New forum - Displays!

[Harabecw]

Hello. There has been a huge amount of monitor-related questions in the general hardware forum.
Is it not time to make a dedicated forum for CRT's, LCD's and the like?

 

[Spyro]

*Everybody* wants their own forum........ blech.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

There is a huge amount of video-related questions in the general hardware forum.
There is a huge amount of peripheral-related questions in the general hardware forum.
There is a huge amount of operating system-related questions in the general hardware forum.
There is a huge amount of cpu-related questions in the general hardware forum.
There is a huge amount of overclocking-related questions in the general hardware forum.
There is a huge amount of motherboard-related questions in the general hardware forum.
There is a huge amount of small form factor-related questions in the general hardware forum.
There is a huge amount of cases/cooling-related questions in the general hardware forum.
There is a huge amount of overclocking-related questions in the general hardware forum.
There is a huge amount of technical support questions in the general hardware forum.

Let's make forums for those. Oh, wait...

 

[HappyPuppy]

There is no end to the number of specialized forums AT could have. Personally I like looking in, say, the Hardsare Forum and finding all sorts of hardware related discussions going on. Same goes for Software, OS's etc.

 

[Chaotic42]

I think they should combine the CPUs and Motherboards forums, and combine GH, Peripherals, Video, and cases together.

It's kind of spread out. Just my 32.6817 ITL.

 

[ProviaFan]

AFAIK, the admins won't be creating any new forums any time soon (they usually say, "It Won't Be Happening."), but maybe the Video card forum description could be modified to say "Discussion about video cards, video input, monitors, and other graphics-related products" or something like that.

OTOH, I'd like to see "Software - Applications, Programming, and Games" changed to plain ol' "Software," with sub-forums (since FT4 supports those now) for Operating Systems (then the separate OS forum could be eliminated), Applications, Games, and Development / Programming. (needless to say, I doubt that will be happening either)

 

[microAmp]

The only sub-forum I would like to see currently is for the motherboards, all the stickies for the specific motherboards going on there kind of make it cluttered, a temp. sub-forum to throw all those in would be nice.

 

[olds]

I'd like to see a forum for hangnails. Everyone gets one at sometime in their life and I don't see an end to it any time soon. It would be great public service.
And while I have never suffered from hemorrhoids (knock wood) they too are prevalent in society. How about a hemorrhoid forum?

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: jliechty
AFAIK, the admins won't be creating any new forums any time soon (they usually say, "It Won't Be Happening."), but maybe the Video card forum description could be modified to say "Discussion about video cards, video input, monitors, and other graphics-related products" or something like that.

OTOH, I'd like to see "Software - Applications, Programming, and Games" changed to plain ol' "Software," with sub-forums (since FT4 supports those now) for Operating Systems (then the separate OS forum could be eliminated), Applications, Games, and Development / Programming. (needless to say, I doubt that will be happening either)

Edit: just noticed something interesting - all of the posters in this thread except the originator, Harabecw, joined sometime in 2001.

or now before 2001.

good suggestion though.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I think they should combine the CPUs and Motherboards forums, and combine GH, Peripherals, Video, and cases together.

It's kind of spread out. Just my 32.6817 ITL.

They use the Euro in Italy now...

 

[KristopherKubicki]

Being the displays editor, I might be a little partial to this subject. A seperate forum might be nice, but perhaps we can just expand on the Video forum to include displays. (Like Ars Technica).

Kristopher

 

[HappyCracker]

Actually, maybe a good idea would be to move General Hardware to the bottom of the page so people would look through all the others first and get a clue. Good idea though

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
Being the displays editor, I might be a little partial to this subject. A seperate forum might be nice, but perhaps we can just expand on the Video forum to include displays. (Like Ars Technica).

Kristopher

I agree, Video and Displays forum

and then maybe have the mods start moving threads in general harware that obviosly belong to other forums

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero


They use the Euro in Italy now...

Not for long.....

<evil villian>
Bwahahahahahahaha
</evil villian>

 

[rbV5]

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Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
Being the displays editor, I might be a little partial to this subject. A seperate forum might be nice, but perhaps we can just expand on the Video forum to include displays. (Like Ars Technica).

Kristopher
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I agree, Video and Displays forum

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
Being the displays editor, I might be a little partial to this subject. A seperate forum might be nice, but perhaps we can just expand on the Video forum to include displays. (Like Ars Technica).

Kristopher

I agree, Video and Displays forum

This sounds like a good idea to me!

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: jliechty
OTOH, I'd like to see "Software - Applications, Programming, and Games" changed to plain ol' "Software," with sub-forums (since FT4 supports those now) for Operating Systems (then the separate OS forum could be eliminated), Applications, Games, and Development / Programming. (needless to say, I doubt that will be happening either)

I think a neat feature with using subforums would be that you aren't allowed to post in the main forum, but when you click to read it you load every thread from the sub forums. So take the example above (with a few additions):
[Software Forums]
|--[Operating Systems]
|----[Windows]
|----[Mac]
|----[Unix/Linux]
|----[General]
|--[Applications]
|--[Games]
|----[Console]
|----[PC]
|----[General]
|--[Programming]
|--[General]
If you want to read about PC Games you click on that sub forum and only get those posts. If you want to read about all games, you click on that and get every post in all of the Games subforums. And if you click on Software Forums you get everything posted there.

Maybe it's just me, but I think that would be great.