More questions for you.

[Shockwave]

I have been thinking a lot about this site over the last week and ways in which I can bring in new members and build the community.

There is still a lot of work to be done moving topics over from the old board, but there's no rush for that I guess. We are lucky that we have a nice bunch of people here that are willing to share their source and thoughts, for that I thanks every single one of you.

There is a lot of work that needs to go into a forum if it is to be sucessful, especially for something with a small niche like demo coding, topics need to be kept fresh and there are more languages here than we had at the old board, some of which I have no clue how to use (yet!!). I'm just so thankful that there are nice people here who are helping out the community.

As far as the board goes, I provide the hosting and I try to take as much interest in peoples projects as I possibly can, but anyway, here's what I've been thinking.

A demo consists of other things than code, there is artwork, music and design that goes into making a prod.
I wondered whether there would be any call for a music forum and an art forum.

Artists and musicians could use the file attachment facility of the board to share their stuff that they want to have used in demos.

The other things are that this forum, while although friendly has no real dedicated place for new members to post and say hello. Perhaps an introductions board?

The forum allows you to collapse categories that you are not interested in so there need not be any need for them to get in the way.

Another thing is links.
I wanted to discourage the posting of links here, this was because I thought to myself that it was impossible to check the content of sites being linked to and also from a couple of bad experiences while we were on the other board.

This makes me a hypocrite because I have no qualms in spamming DBF stuff all over places like Coders Workshop.
Perhaps a links forum for people who want to post links to their own places and sites that would be of help to the community.
I'd feel a lot happier about the situation here if I could do that.

Although I pay for the site it would be no good if I was the only person here and I need your feedback before I go making sweeping changes.

Just to give you all an update, I've been ruthlessly submitting the site to search engines, we should start getting crawled over by the web bots before long (goodbye bandwidth!).

Seriously though, any thoughts are greatly appreciated. Please don't PM them to me, just post them here so that everyone can discuss.

Thanks.

[Ghost^BHT]

Some good ideas I think. I would be glad to moderate a gfx forum if ya want. About the links : I see nothing wrong with a links forum.  

[Shockwave]

Thanks mate, what do you think would work best for the GFX? One general forum or a seperate category for GFX that could contain a few forums, such as completed work, work in progress etc?

[Ghost^BHT]

I would see if just a general gfx forum would work if it needs to be subdivided because of massive content I think you could do that later. Just see how it shakes out.

[zparticle]

I'd really like to see a music forum. I always feel bad using things I found on the net because you can't find the people to ask for permission to use their stuff. Would be great if people posted their music for folks to use.

[Shockwave]

Yep, and the good thing about these forums is that posting a well placed intro or two in the right communities could bring them here, I'm sure that there are a lot of non-coding gfxers and musicians who want their stuff used but have no way of doing this.

[Roly]

Maybe we could make a general Artwork Fourum with subcategories (Gfx, Music and maybe Webdesign) I also think a Link Category would be good for Board members who would tell us about their own Websites

cya
Røly

[Shockwave]

Thanks for your thoughts Røly, so far everyone seems in favour.

[Roly]

How do you want to move Topics from the old board? Is there any special way or a simple thing like copy/paste. In the next week i have a lot of time

cya
Røly

[Shockwave]

Cheers Røly, if you look in the Blitz forum of this board you'll see several that I have moved in from the old board

[Clyde]

I like the sound of a Music forum.

A seperate Code snippets category, I'd still love to see. I recon it'll really help ya out.

And perhaps a Coders Tool Box offering links, tips and tricks, editors, tools, tutorials etc.

I remember back in the days of ezboard, we had a welcoming comitte pinned to the general chat.

[Shockwave]

Thanks for the thoughts Clyde The welcoming comittee I remember that!

[Roly]

ok, i see. Moving only the first Post or all replys, too?

Røly

[Clyde]

Maybe you could even put the news box feature to use, and welcome people in there matey.

[Shockwave]

<- If you could just cut and paste them in mate that would be a big help. Any posts that you move will help.

Clyde, that's not a bad idea at all