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Here's something we could do. I know of a hack I can install that would let us have sub-categories, forums within forums. The new categories appear on the front page under the main categories.
For example, under the Community main category there would be a 'Resources' sub-category. Click that and you get a page with either more sub-categories or the forums under the sub-category, like 'Art','Music','Selling your Game',etc. In the future, any of these forums could be turned into a sub-category with separate forums on the next level down in the hierarchy.
There would be some risks involved of course These hacks invariably give us trouble for at least a few hours while I panic and try to work out what's gone wrong. And then there's the bugs... oh the bugs :evil:
I'm willing to give it a go though if people are happy with the idea. I think the way to do it would be to get the mod installed and then convert each forum to a sub-category one at a time.
Sounds like a plan to me :idea:
Sure, give it a go ! I have been thinking about that for a long time, however I didn't know there where hacks for it !
If there are bugs I'll gladly help you to (try and) filter them out!
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Ok now we have more room to add forums, let's decide what we need.
We've already seen a few suggestions in this thread but we have to work out how to fit them in.
Here's my first attempt, * means category or sub-category, all others are forums:
DGDev*
--News
--Site feedback (was Forums)
Community*
--Chat
--Your Projects
--Marketing and Distribution
--Help me!
Design*
--Technical*
----Documentation
----Tools and methodologies (I made that up, lol)
--Creative*
----Visual
----Music and Sound Effects
----Game Ideas
----Story writing
Programming*
--Getting Started*
----Delphi Basics
----Tutorials and Links
--Graphics*
----OpenGL
----Direct3D and DirectDraw
--Sound*
----DirectSound
----FMOD
----BASS
----OpenAL
--Networking*
----Network Programming
----DirectPlay
--Input*
----DirectInput
--AI*
----Artificial Life
----Genetic Algorithms
----Pathfinding
----Neural Nets
--General
--Game Programming
--Kylix
Game Libraries and Components*
--A3D nGine 2003Ar
--DelphiX
--GameVision SDK
--GLScene
--GLXTreem
--PowerDraw
--Project Omega
--SDL
--Xcess Game Development Kit
OMG we're turning into GameDev :shock:
That's 26 forums/sub-categories on the front page, so it's a little less than we have now. And 39 forums all together.
What do you think? Is that enough forums for now?
That seems like an excellent way to arrange things. Good work. I assume most of the bugs in the sub category hack have been ironed out. I was rather surprised when I saw 55 new posts in every category yesterday. I thought all my Delphi applications had compiled at once.
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