By all means, split the Collaboration forum into some more sub forums!

Hello,

Well, all is in the title.

It is becoming hard to have a good view of the different offers in the collaboration forum, since Unity community is gaining more and more peoples, sorting more and more projects, and it is visible in the Collaboration forum.

I posted a couple of offers, and the day after, they were already in 2nd page of the forum, pushed by multiple offers of all kind of project for all kind of jobs.

I think it would really be a big benefits for both the teams and the collaborator to have the forum split in sub-forums, by group of jobs :
- Production
- Game design
- Programming
- Art
- Audio & Music
- Business
- Other

What do you think?

 

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Absolutely, agreed

 

It might also help to do the same for the Job Offering section.

 

It works now, but the idea is always nicer to be split.

 

Couldn't hurt to give it a try. Seems like it would help filter traffic while keeping people's threads from becoming instantly buried.

 

It might help for other forums as well like the Assets and Asset Store section. Threads get buried very quickly there. However, there would need to be a way to give the user the option to view all, or just a specific category.

 

People had a hard enough time using the collaboration forum correctly in the first place which is why it ended up being locked down..

I doubt complicating it will make it better... It will just multiply the work for the people that approve the post's, because people will start creating a thread under each category.

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It looks like there's at least 3-4 days' worth of topics in any given page, so it doesn't seem worth the extra hassle. And yeah, it's already hard enough to get people to post in the correct section and not spam duplicate topics everywhere.

--Eric

 

So, we can't have nice things because people do bad...

 

Yep. Although I'm not convinced that having tons of sub forums is a "nice thing". Seems to me that there should be some other method of filtering that would be more effective and less messy, such as a tag system (wasn't the old forum supposed to get something like that at one point?).

--Eric

 

Not "tons" of sub forum, juste 3 or 4 subsection to give a chance to the topics that were approved first in a stack of 40 others.

 

Having many sub forums may raise issues with people posting in the wrong place, but a lot of people will post in the correct place also. What if we were to combine forums by that logic, just have a general, commerical, and support forum. It would be a bad idea right? Why? It would be a mess and post would be buried constantly.

We have a mess with post being buried now. Therefore, we should increase subforums at least a little. Would it be more work for mods? Yes, but sorry, that's the price of running an efficient forum. Perhaps more mods can be recruited.

 

If a person is too lazy to look at a second page, they probably won't look at multiple sub-forums.

 

typical scenario...

1. noob creates post.
2. post doenst appear (I assume that approval thing is still in place)
3. noob goes to next sub-forum
4. go to 1.

 

I think it's somewhat viable, but one list will still push things down. While it may seem lazy to not check the second page, many people just assume that if a post is on the second page, is must be old news or not interesting, they don't take into account that the thread may have been buried fast. Just the way it is.

If using prefixes, it would be nice if there was a way to put mutiple list of threads on the same page. I doubt that's possible, but it would make an array of threads all neatly on one page. I don't think I've ever seen that done before.

 

Add a "filter by prefixe" option to only see the topic with the wanted prefixe? Or a simple search on the forum.

 

Any extra steps and you can't expect regular traffic use it, unless it's very clear and very intuitive.