Thread Closed
(05-17-2017, 09:28 PM)Aysun Wrote: Overall: I support OP's approach, but think the RPC management needs to react too.
I want to keep this thread mostly on topic, but wanted to address this point specifically.
Previously, RPC did feature split sections for Balmung and Gilgamesh for events, directories, etc. They were later merged when it became apparent that most of the posts were only coming from Balmung. This was also when we implemented server prefixes for those forums, so that users could select from not only Balmung and Gilgamesh, but other servers that were being used at the time. (I plan to add Mateus as soon as I finish this post and another). We can split them back into separate forums, but that comes with a readability cost. Either we'd have subforums per server for the designated servers, or we'd have a larger forum list, which is also about as daunting. Our proposed move to InvisionPower does help with some of this, as it has built-in support for multiple tags, a prefix, and best of all, FILTERING.
Given that some of the boards (like the Town Center) aren't moving particularly fast right now, splitting any boards is on hold until we know more about the server people are willing to put the work into growing. That's not a RPC Staff decision because the staff arbitrarily picking a server is no more useful than any other single person offering a server. On that note, it's honestly up to users to promote which servers they'd like and on the RPC, we'll do what we can to help those then get noticed. A lot of our split sections are running on some severely delicate custom code that doesn't scale well. (That filtering in the Halls? All custom. It requires making about 10 extra forum-specific templates that all can't conflict with each other and must be updated manually. They also can't be imported correctly to anything else because it's all handled through a special plugin).