Split the forum

[meka]

Since I've first installed gentoo, forum was a great resource of information. There is a good comunity, but that makes problems sometimes. I've posted a thread about postfix in net subforum, and after 2 days it was on 3rd page of net subforum. Talking to a friend about this, we came to idea to split the net subforum (and others, too, but I'll talk about net subforum only. For other subforums applies the same thing). For example, we could have net::eth, net::ppp, net::smtp, ... There is a problem of moving old posts to new subforums. For this purpose, we colud have net::oldposts, or some other name for old posts that are posted before this idea is implemented (if admin decides that this idea make's sence). It wouldn't be hard for me to do some post-moving to new subforums if you let me because some of the posts are still opened, but I don't belive you trust me enough. I just wanted to contribute. Sometimes it's really anouing searching for your own message. If admin decides this isn't a good idea, well ... it was a nice dream.

[nlindblad]

Agreed, also, another nice feature for phpBB would be to have labels for all topics, so you can perform more complex searches.

For example: New topics gets labeled "new" or "unanswered", that would be very useful for a scenario where you've had a problem, solved it, then want to search for similiar unanswered topics that are related to your solved problem to help them out.

Also, topics in "Kernel and Hardware" could be labeled "gentoo-sources" or "vanilla-sources" or "hardened-sources", etc.

Pretty much like a Bugzilla category system.

I think it would save us some time in moste cases since searches on one or two words often gives lots of hits where most topics are unrelated to what you really were looking for...

Just my 2 cents...

[pjp]

A feature to allow subforums has been added, so we'll be looking at creating subforums for many (if not all) of the forums. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-391659-highlight-subforum.html
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