The forum will quickly get very hard to navigate and interesting discussions lost, is it in the pipeline to split it into sections?

Hmm, we're at the size now that that might start to make sense, to have two or three subforums. What do others think?

I'm usually less likely to bother with forums once I have to click through to various subforums to check for new content. That's just me, though... :)

Well, I feel like it's more important that new posts in a topic push the topic to the top of the list as opposed to currently where topics are always ordered by date of creation.

@Ringil you can click on 'Created' on the forum homepage which then changes to 'updated' to get the latest messages.

I guess I do the same as sjackson, I remember this chinese-forums site and I can't be bothered really, too much sub-stuff. But with Skritter maybe a few subforums would be nice, for bugs, OT, etc.

Although personally I don't find it necessary, the 'updated' and search option are clear enough for me. But many Skritterers will have missed topics about the best Chinese movies or the 2yo girl-accident for e.g.

Actually I can't find the link anymore for the Chinese movies topic, it's maybe 1-2 months old, lots of ppl posted their favorite movies, anyone who can find the link? Tnx

Is it this you where looking for? http://beta.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=111857996

Yes thanks for the prompt reply, I should start watching some of these. Searched for 'Chinese movies' but it didn't come up, which is kind of strange. You had it bookmarked?:)

The current way is the best in my opinion.

If I want to follow a post I click on the "Email replies to me:". If I want to find an old post the search work well. this way with one glance I can see all the new post and open those I am interested in.

Subsections would definitely make me read less of the forum.

Only my opinion though.

@Elwin: http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=111857996

Damn! Mandarinboy beat me to it!

@aharlekyn you can still beat him by providing me the .cn link, .com ain't working for me guys. . .

I think it would be nice to star former hot topics like best Chinese movies, they quickly get snowed under, 'cause this forum is quite lively.

Just replace com with CN and it works: http://www.skritter.cn/forum/topic?id=111857996 ,No not bookmarked. Just search for movies e.g and you will find the topic. As for sub topics, not yet. I like it as it is since there still are not that many new topics so it is easy to get them all this way. Still, it could be nice to have sub topics for study related, misc. so that could work as well.

When I searched the .cn forum I could also not find the post. When I search the .com forum it in the first three. Wonder why that is?

I like the idea of a former hot topics sections or star or something, although they could just as well find their way into an useful link page. Which would mean more work, though.

Yea it was a bad attempt at humour:) kinda late here you know!

@aharlekyn yes, and I also noticed that the dates of the posts on the beta link are a day later than the normal skritter link. Random.

:D

Go to bed!

That's life for a European sports fan in China (watching Federer, totally unimportant match), everything's at night. Although Youku has all these copied match replays that you won't find on Youtube but sometimes you gotta treat yourself live coverage. Great excuse, I know.

Completely understandable excuse!

I like the forum as it is now

I like the forum as it is now too, easy to keep on top of what's new. Maybe tags for searching instead of seperate sections?

Sounds like no subforums needed yet. I also like having a one-stop forum browsing experience.

Yeah, I am happy to disagree :-D. It is not necessary to have 20 forums, but it would be great to have at least the sections:
- Chatter, News
- Skritter-Improvements, Feature suggestions etc.
- Chinese Language

I personally don't think there is enough forum activity yet to warrant subforums - the first page, sorted by 'updated posts' includes posts updated in the last 9 days! Splitting the forum at this point would only reduce posts, I think.

For Chinese Language discussion you may be well served by discussions at chinese-forums.com. No need to go reinventing the wheel...

If there were subforums, new users like me could better find things they're interested in. Actually not just new users. As far as seeing the latest posts, they could be placed at the beginning in a separate section.

For an example of this, look at www.robotshop.com.

Here's one way this could work:

http://forum.sparrow-framework.org/

You can do everything with the main "everything" forum, or you can go into the subforums at the bottom. So it's kind of like tags rather than folders, in that you can ignore them, but there's a fixed set. (This example also has tags, search, and stickies. They're really trying to index the information!)

Either of the last two (identical?) suggestions seem pretty reasonable - an all posts page up front and subforums/tags below. While volume of posts may not yet make subforums worthwhile, there may be advantages in encouraging the habit of tagging early on to make searching archived content easier later on (when a switch to subforums will probably be needed - assuming membership grows! :) ).