Forum Clutter

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Feb 3 2012, 7:52 pm
I think the forum is just a little cluttered the way it is. Here's how I think it should be:

BYOND Feedback
- BYOND Discussion: Discuss the BYOND software or website.
- Bug Reports: Found a bug? Report it here.
- Feature Requests: Suggest your ideas for improving BYOND.
- Help Desk: Having software or website problems? Get help here.
Developer Resources
- Developer Tips: Is your game broken or you're not sure how to implement something? Get help here.
- Design Philosophy: Discuss game mechanics and world design.
- Demos & Libraries & Snippets: Tutorials and other useful material to help improve your games.
- Game Resources: Share artwork and music or discuss techniques for creating them.
- Classified Ads: Recruit team members, advertise your skills, look for people to collaborate with.
Community
- General Discussion: Introduce yourself, talk about everyday issues and topics of interest to the community.
- Contests & Events: Something special going on? Tell the community here!
- Gaming: Discussion about BYOND games.
- Work In Progress: Making a game and want to show it off or get feedback before it's done? Post it here!
Feb 3 2012, 7:56 pm
:D Hmm...Nice
Feb 3 2012, 8:16 pm
I like it. The only issue is that the demo, lib, and gaming forums are special forums that have to be in their own section (they just crosspost from the hub forums, where we're trying to encourage discussion). I also thought that a general Gaming forum might get too dominated by fangame discussion, but I could go either way there.

We're going to do some things to promote hub discussion more (one being to put the Gaming forums above Community). I'll think about your other suggestions.
Feb 4 2012, 5:50 am
BYOND Feedback
- BYOND Discussion: Discuss the BYOND software or website.
- Bug Reports: Found a bug? Report it here.
- Feature Requests: Suggest your ideas for improving BYOND.
- Help Desk: Having software or website problems? Get help here.
Developer Resources
- Developer Tips: Is your game broken or you're not sure how to implement something? Get help here.
- Design Philosophy: Discuss game mechanics and world design.
- Libraries & Demos: User-written libraries and proof-of-concepts.
- Snippets & Tutorials: Tutorials and other useful material to help improve your games.
- Game Resources: Share artwork and music or discuss techniques for creating them.
- Classified Ads: Recruit team members, advertise your skills, look for people to collaborate with.
Community
- General Discussion: Introduce yourself, talk about everyday issues and topics of interest to the community.
- Contests & Events: Something special going on? Tell the community here!
- Original Gaming: Discussion about BYOND games with new and original ideas.
- Fan Gaming: Discussion about BYOND games based on popular intellectual properties.
- Work In Progress: Making a game and want to show it off or get feedback before it's done? Post it here!
Feb 4 2012, 6:21 am
I don't know where you got the idea that we have any help desks, SuperAntx. We use only the finest escritoires here.