Rob wrote:What I want when I go to shmups chat is news that Ketsui DL is being released tomorrow. What discussion outside of news, STGT, top 25, etc. threads would people really miss?
From the point of view of minimal effort / maximum effect, one tweak might be the splitting of "Shmups Chat" into two: "Shmups News" for focused news discussion, and "Shmups Chat" for random on-topic chatter.
Over time, threads that get crazy in Shmups News could be trivially moved to Shmups Chat, and the most focused current news discussions could be found in Shmups News on any particular day.
Rob wrote:One of the big reasons search doesn't work are the thousands of threads that don't need to be there. They've made an index of strat/hs threads, wouldn't be much different.
I was actually in the
middle of indexing the discussions when the old forum was wiped out. The forum back-end failure caused that project to be scrapped. Really, to do manual indexing of threads by game, and keep it meaningfully updated, is very time intensive. If there is someone who thinks they are dedicated enough to the forum to volunteer for that duty, perhaps try sending an application to the current mod-admin team to join the staff. (Please do not PM me as I retired from the forum staff last year and cannot speak on behalf of the current mod-admin team.) At least this forum should be easier to index than the old one, which had way more posts...