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Proposal: Tavern Reorganization
The idea for a "General Crawl Discussion" subforum has been banging around in archaeo and my heads for a while (thanks Blade!), and we have, I think, a tentative proposal for a wider reorganization. Before hashing things with the other mods in too great detail, I'd like to hear if there are strong objections from y'all, since this would be a fairly large change and affect the community more than the mods, honestly. So here's the proposed structure:
- The Tavern
- General Crawl Discussion ("For victory celebrations, character funerals, casual tournaments, and conversation about the game and its design.")
- Dungeon Crawling Advice ("Ask fellow adventurers how to stay alive in the deep, dark, dangerous dungeon below, or share your own accumulated wisdom.")
- Crazy Yiuf's Corner ("If it doesn't fit anywhere else, it belongs here. Also, come here if you just need to get hammered maced." Include new CYC guidelines, "What CYC Is Not," including "CYC is not a general discussion forum.")
- Announcements, Suggestions & Criticism ("The metaforum for discussing the Tavern itself.")
- The Back Room
- Proposals & Contributions ("A subforum for finished or nearly finished ideas and patches; see the P&C Guidelines for more information.")
- Technical Support ("Questions and answers for technical problems for players and coders alike.")
I'd propose moving content as follows:
- Everything in YAVP/YASD/CIP -> Discussion (yeah, I know CIP threads in the future would mostly land in Advice, but there is zero chance I'm going to try and weed through that)
- Some Advice threads ("Has anyone gotten Sturdy Frame yet?") -> Discussion
- Some CYC threads (Best/Worst Artefacts, Blade's "Crawl Legends", early feature ideas) -> Discussion
- The Dart Board -> Discussion. Possibly a sticky for a current casual tournament, or maybe those threads are active for a bit and die out.
- GDD -> Proposals & Contributions (Maybe with a different name? Maybe keep GDD's name?)
- Contributions -> Proposals & Contributions
- Coding -> Technical Support
- Wanderer's Courtyard -> Discussion
- The Bulletin Board -> Announcements, Suggestions, & Criticism
The clearest concrete problem I think this addresses is the "hey where do I get help" thing -- I occasionally see people post char dumps to Advice and get told to go to CIP, or have more general questions in CIP and get told to go to Advice. There might still be a bit of that (hey I died what should I have done?) but the guideline would be "Are you asking for advice? Post in advice. Are you just pissed off? Discussion."
Otherwise, it's mainly tightening up a lot of forums that don't see much traffic, and having a clear purpose for CYC (jokes and non-Crawl content) "3000 Thanks Quest" and "I had a dream..." and "here are these funny pictures" and such.
This gets rid of some of the top-level forums ("The Annex" and "The Bar" get the axe here) but those don't, as far as I can tell, serve any actual function. We could have different mods and permissions for different top-level forums, but we don't and I suspect we never will. Honestly, we could probably do away with the distinction between The Tavern and The Back Room, but we can't lose all the flavor, can we?
More creative names for the forums might be a nice thing, but one topic at at time
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Anyhow! Does this seem clear? One result of this is that there would be fewer forums, most of which would have more traffic (CYC would have less, probably). That sounds like a good result to me. To others, as well?