Maintenance sub-forum

[jabberwocky]

Honestly, I feel like this place has way too many forums as it is. Whenever I’m trying to find a thread I know I looked at recently it takes forever to click through them all trying to guess where it is.

[jrenaut]

I never browse the particular forums – I just hit the “new posts” link and see if anything looks interesting.

[PotomacCyclist]

The main index could be cleaned up or formatted. Maybe have a separate header grouping different subjects together, while keeping all the forums. For example:

GENERAL DISCUSSION

BIKE COMMUTING
Commuters
Capital Bikeshare
Capital Bikeshare Software Developers

GEAR
Bikes & Equipment
Maintenance
Classifieds

RIDES
Events
Group Rides
Where to Ride?
Family Biking
Freezing Saddles
Bike to Work Day

PICTURES & VIDEOS

ADVISORY COMMITTEES
Arlington Bicycle Advisory Committee
Alexandria Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee
Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling

If the index had these headers or groupings, all of the forums would still be visible on the main page, but they could be much easier to locate. General Discussion could remain at the top, and stay as an individual forum. Nothing would change except the arrangement on the index page (and moving Maintenance to the index). Instead of all the individual forum titles, someone can just scan the index and see a few general topics, followed by a few forums beneath each topic.

[PotomacCyclist]

I edited the previous post to provide a sample of what a clean forum index might look like.

[JimF22003]

I don’t like subforums (like Maintenance) that you can’t see unless you go into the parent forum. Unless you notice that the “Maintenance” icon is darker blue, you wouldn’t know that there are new posts there.

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