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Why was the title of this forum changed???

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You know we hate change. Just alter the layout, colors, spacing, etc. and folks go bonkers complaining. So why was this renamed OT Discussion Club?
 
Looks like maybe they merged a couple of forums. Wasn't there a 'discussion club' forum or something like that before? I'm not sure I ever visited it.
 
Yep, a few forums were merged and a few new ones created.
And a couple more were renamed. Mostly in tech.
 
esquared said:
Yep, a few forums were merged and a few new ones created.
And a couple more were renamed. Mostly in tech.
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So frikken confusing, like a new version of Windows, where they moved all of your settings.

Well, OK, not really, but you get the picture.

Hopefully, the changes help and don't hurt the forum. Though, if I were in charge, I would have left "Off Topic", simply still be titled "Off Topic". It's been a tradition, ATOT and all.

(Maybe keep the forum name "Off Topic", but change the description text to "and discussion club"?)

Edit: Not that I have any pull over the say of this place, but just trying to make a suggestion.
 
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I can't imagine there will be any difference in ATOT. Just means that they killed discussion club and dumped all the old threads into this forum.
 
VirtualLarry said:
So frikken confusing, like a new version of Windows, where they moved all of your settings.

Well, OK, not really, but you get the picture.

Hopefully, the changes help and don't hurt the forum. Though, if I were in charge, I would have left "Off Topic", simply still be titled "Off Topic". It's been a tradition, ATOT and all.

(Maybe keep the forum name "Off Topic", but change the description text to "and discussion club"?)

Edit: Not that I have any pull over the say of this place, but just trying to make a suggestion.
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TBF the names in the software section make a lot more sense now.
 
That's some dumb shit. Discussion club should have been quietly dumped into OT or P&N, and nothing said of it again. A sticky advising reporting trolling threads?! Might as well just lock the door. That's all OT is...
 
I hardly ever look at any of the tech forums, except occasionally when I see something pop up in 'New Posts'. But why are there still 'Mice' and 'Keyboards' forums, of all things? Each has maybet 10 active threads since the start of the year.
 
Carson Dyle said:
But why are there still 'Mice' and 'Keyboards' forums, of all things? Each has maybet 10 active threads since the start of the year.
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I just remember the Peripherals sub-forum, I don't remember any specific "Mice" or "Keyboards" sub-sub-forums, before this re-org.
 
They still show EagleKeeper as a Mod of the discussion forms. Was that never edited or is he back? What about Chucky, is he still around?
 
LOL did they fracture the forums even MORE?

The A/V forum is now the Audio forum and a TV forum? The A/V forum had like 1 new post a day as it already is. It looks like there are more forums too such as "Ask an IT professional" or whatever it is.

Jesus and I thought the people who did this forum fracturing like 10 years ago were idiots, when this place had 10000x more users than it does now. And now they fracture the community even more?

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A bunch of idiots are running this place now. This place was so much better when OT was OT and there weren't 500 different OT forums.
 
Change in forums is bad generally remember when it changed software, lost a lot of people then.
 
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lxskllr said:
That's some dumb shit. Discussion club should have been quietly dumped into OT or P&N, and nothing said of it again. A sticky advising reporting trolling threads?! Might as well just lock the door. That's all OT is...
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Outside of OT, though... I'm getting tired of the "I'm too stupid to breathe" parody threads that people start in the help forums.
 
highland145 said:
Luminaries?

a person who inspires or influences others, especially one prominent in a particular sphere.



Bwahahahahaaaa.


haha.
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us lifers are dumb af
dave_the_nerd said:
Outside of OT, though... I'm getting tired of the "I'm too stupid to breathe" parody threads that people start in the help forums.
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So I was looking through SpyFu, just to learn more about it and try it out, you'd be surprised the queries that get people to land on the forums of AT.

(here's a link to the analysis: https://www.spyfu.com/overview/domain?query=anandtech.com)

Organic keywords
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Renters insuance ->> forums.anandtech.com/threads/who-do-you-have-your-renters-insuance-with-and-how-much.308074

student loan conslidation->> https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/student-loan-conslidation-advice.2162924/

These two are our most valuable organic keywords and they aren't even spelled right (which probably is the reason why they're our most valuable since no one competes in them
 
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