September 24, 2007 at 3:21 pm
There are lots of forums entitled "Discuss Content Posted By [Author's name]". Since there are lots of SSC authors, and (hopefully) many more added as time goes by, it may be a bit much to list each one individually on the Forums home page, especially since many of those have zero threads.
Maybe have a forum for Article Discussions, and a thread for each article? Or perhaps only list those authors whose forums have had recent activity?
It's just a minor thing, but it does clutter up the main Forums page.
Tim Mitchell, Microsoft Data Platform MVP
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September 24, 2007 at 4:04 pm
We've always had them, but we hid them from the main pages.
I'll add this to the list since I tend to agree it's a lot of forums. It was mainly for authors, but not sure if they use them at all. We could do to one forum for all articles.
September 24, 2007 at 10:03 pm
I think only a forum with all the thread that have had any recent activity would do the trick. I don't see the need to have a forum for each poster that ever wrote for SSC. Can you imagine a page with 600 authors after a few more years of usage. I wouldn't want to try to manually dig through those.
September 26, 2007 at 10:13 am
Agreed on the # of forums dedicated to the individual authors. Perhaps a separate page would be more valuable, but even then - the # of authors will get daunting pretty quickly.
I wondered why the forum page was so large when it had not been previously. 🙂
Overall, the new look/feel is pretty cool. I haven't tested my briefcase yet, though - that was the area that just wouldn't work in the old site (despite logging out, clearing cookies, etc).
-Pete
September 26, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Ya I imagine that scenario... remember that article that I read 3 months ago by a guy.... that would be a fun search to run manually / visually :hehe:.
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