I took a poll on the topic of other servers several months ago, and it turned out that a very, very small set of users are on other servers. While it's not really a maintenance issue to add more forums, it does increase the number of forums and thereby makes the user interface more complex; doing so to serve a very small set of our users doesn't seem especially beneficial. Also, some raised the legitimate concern that it makes these servers seem less active than they really are if they have an empty, or nearly empty, events and directory forum. I realize this is a bit of a "chicken and egg" problem, but proliferation of forums in the UI is a real problem for people, especially on small screens. (Yes, I know a mobile theme would help, but that's a lot more complex than keeping the forum count down.)
So, I then took a poll on an alternative solution that would keep things simple -- merging the two server Events and Directory forums into one and use tags to identify the server. I could then easily add tags for each server, so you'd be able to filter by server. This proposal was quite dramatically rejected by the community.
That's basically how we got to where we are now (excluding the historical reasons why only Balmung and Gilgamesh have subforums). I'm open to suggestions on alternative options, however.
So, I then took a poll on an alternative solution that would keep things simple -- merging the two server Events and Directory forums into one and use tags to identify the server. I could then easily add tags for each server, so you'd be able to filter by server. This proposal was quite dramatically rejected by the community.
That's basically how we got to where we are now (excluding the historical reasons why only Balmung and Gilgamesh have subforums). I'm open to suggestions on alternative options, however.
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Quality RP at low, low prices!
((about me | about L'yhta Mahre | L'yhta's desk | about Mysterium, the Ivory Tower: a heavy RP society of mages))
