Feedback: reduce the number of sections

[webustaad]

Dear webmasterworld Administrators! I hope you are in the best of your physical and spiritual health.

I am visiting your forums for a long time. I remember the days when I came here to get some advice and tips for my Foriegn language community forum and now I own a community of 6700 + members. That was the time when the threads here (webmasterworld.com) used to get quick replies but now its not same as before. You post a thread in any section and you find 0 or 1 reply after a few hours. I have done some research on online Forum Management and have learned that those forums are always slow (less posts) which has a large number of sections than what they actaualy need. Webmasterworld.com has 40-50 sections and 90% of them are not busy at all. I dont understand why there is a need for a large number of sections. I think you are losing control after creating far too many sections and its a time to wake up. There are more than 100 different branches of web development. If you start making a section for each branch, it may help guests looking for information but not the members who wish to participate.

I would like to see webmasterworld.com as it was before.

[Brett_Tabke]

We appreciate the feedback.

[mincklerstraat]

What might help you most is the 'recent posts' link that's at the top of the forum when you're logged in. There you see all the most recent posts.

Keeping things nicely categorized imho helps keep things more on-topic, and helps people find info more easily.

[webustaad]

I agree with that "Keeping things nicely categorized helps keep things more on-topic, and helps people find info more easily" and I also said same in my post but when it comes to member postings....the sections become too slow. We need busy sections so that our threads get replies on time. If members dont post..then visitors will not find information they are looking for.

[engine]

>We need busy sections so that our threads get replies on time.

I'm sure that the replies on a volunteer board of this size are pretty good, from a time perspective. We were never a chat/IM forum and sometimes it might take a day for answers to be forthcoming - it has been like that from day one.

All feedback noted, thanks.

[Jon_King]

I think that the category number is not related to getting an answer. It's a traffic issue.

I'll guess that traffic wanes and waxes with significant SE movement. Were just in a SE lull right now.

[Brett_Tabke]

traffic in the se forums is Jon, but I'm sure your realize that our traffic is pretty widespread accross all the webmaster topics these days.

[Jon_King]

yes indeed, most topics are well visited from my user-point-of-view... ex. I am glad to see that the php forum seems to be bustin out. It seems a star forum that will continue to grow rapidly. IMHO

[Chndru]

I'll guess that traffic wanes and waxes with significant SE movement. Were just in a SE lull right now.

Yup. w/o google updates :(

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