What do members think of the new web site & forum structure?

I do not see forum rules anywhere unless I am missing something.

Hi,

Looks good.to me.

Stan

And the link on the-photo.org for the "Collegial Show" threads still links/refers to the dev site 😜

Hate to say it but I question the utility of the 'Misplaced Items' category and the workload it places on Admin.

I am unfamiliar with Misago but, on a Read-only page e.g. Image Discussions, I would prefer the 'Start Thread' button either to not show or to be grayed out (inactive) rather than having to jump through the hoops described here.

Thanks for the quick response, Arvo.

In that case, it seems to be more complicated ... "but forgets to select appropriate forum - then this post is posted on first writable forum."

I would now say that the button should be inactive if the User has not yet selected an appropriate forum but I doubt that that is possible in Misago and not easy in HTML either.

Another way is clicking on the button brings up a dialog list of writable forums available in the Read-only category.

I take it that by "forum" we mean sub-category?

Good idea!

Hi Alan.
I think simplifying is usually positive... but isn't eliminating (or hiding) the different photographic themes (landscape, urban, macro, architecture...) perhaps going too far? It's certainly not common in photography forums...

¡Hola!
I think it's a good option that could work: it allows for maintaining a simple structure, but also makes it easier to group (and search) the images thematically...

No, what we are doing isn't common but we think it works better in promoting engagement. The managed threads is our answer. Landscape is already included. These avoid the old genres issue of having ancient posts that don't get responses. Managed threads ensure that posts get responses. Our old site was full of ancient posts and unresponded to posts. It looked bad to new arrivals.
There is still the opportunity for anyone to post on anything they wish. We also have a couple of new "shepherded" broad categories coming up that should pick up plenty of hits. Street is on the way to becoming a "shepherded" weekly thread.

Street at this point is still operating as a genre. It should shortly (this week I think) become a Weekly thread.

I strongly advocate that we do not rebuild/encourage the genres. We finish up with what we had before, lots of boxes with little activity in them and people making posts that are rarely responded to. Because everyone else uses genres or camera brands as categories, new arrivals here will pick up on that kind of organization if it is seen to be easily available here. What we are trying to do here is create plenty of activity with a relatively small number of members, to engage newcomers.
If anyone wants to post on, say, architecture, there is plenty of opportunity still to do it and get responses back from those interested. Some of the smaller genres are likely to be catered for in the under development "Abstract and Experimental" Weekly thread.
If anyone thinks they see enough interest in a particular subject to support a weekly thread, talk to us about it and we can help to set it up. If there isn't enough traffic to support a "weekly" it is probably better dealt with through the other posting avenues rather than as a genre.