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Old August 21st, 2003, 03:15 PM
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Too many forums?
Now that we have all these new forums, it takes me a good 10 seconds to scroll down the page to the Dev Shed Lounge using my mouse's scroll button. Maybe we should delete the "Other Programming Languages" group since it's mostly MS junk anyway.

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I like the additions. Soon we will reach our 2,000 users online goal!
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Old August 21st, 2003, 03:28 PM
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Just wait for the googlebot to hit all the new forum names...

Perhaps a bookmark on the lounge with a little link for members up the top somewhere to jump right down there?
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Old August 21st, 2003, 03:34 PM
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It'd be nice to have a compressed listing somewhere. My vision:

Split up into topics like now, but under each topic heading, there'd be a multi-column layout that simply lists forum names. No additional information about the forum, just its name as a link to it. In theory, all forums should be able to be listed in one or two screenfulls.

I use my CP for a listing, but that's still too long. With all the junk at the top of the page (shush, I know, better me scrolling than me paying), only the latter half is utilized, giving me a total of seven topics listed. Hell, maybe I'll just make a little libwwwperl app to do it and host it locally.
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Old August 21st, 2003, 03:43 PM
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Silly monkey..
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Old August 21st, 2003, 03:54 PM
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...or maybe you should increase your mouses scroll rate?
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Old August 21st, 2003, 03:58 PM
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lol. still, assigning a accesskey to something that would do <a name="otherforums"> would be cool.

like alt + u would take you down. only the common users know it
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Old August 21st, 2003, 04:00 PM
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...or maybe you should increase your mouses scroll rate?
Yeah, I thought about that, but then I was like, "You know, it would be much easier for the DevShed admins to reprogram that front page."
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Old August 21st, 2003, 04:27 PM
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I've seen forums where you could specify which forums or categories you want expanded. I attached a picture of what I'd like to see done: you could specify forums you don't care about, and all that will appear is a link. Otherwise, you get a little more info. Saves alot of space when you have as many forums as we do here.
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Old August 21st, 2003, 04:42 PM
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I like the accesskey idea! lol.....that's cause i'm a lazy bugger!
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Old August 21st, 2003, 05:12 PM
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Why don't you use your UserCP?

At the bottom of each forum is a link "Subscribe to this Forum". Clicking on this link ads it to your UserCP homepage.

That way, you can simply visit your UserCP page when you hit the boards, and see only the forums you're interested in.
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Old August 21st, 2003, 05:14 PM
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Good point.
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Old August 21st, 2003, 05:58 PM
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Old August 21st, 2003, 06:02 PM
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Old August 21st, 2003, 06:19 PM
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Now look what you've done, doc.
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