Forum re-organisation
Great to see the effort going in to splitting out the forum to focus support threads to the specific machines. Well done to the support team / mods / superusers doing the work.
Bill
Tagaytay City, Philippines
Founder member of Philippines Prusa Printer Owners FB Group
Sponsor Pillars of God Academy in Bacoor
Re: Forum re-organisation
The idea is good, but in my opinion, the board is now too disrupted. Searching became harder.
- MK2, MK2S, MK2.5 are too similar to have distinct sections. Too many mods and other issues can be applied to both. They should share a common section.
- "Printing help" for each machine? Really? The problems and solutions will hardly depend on the printer.
- How many sections will be there if we get the MK4 ? Too many I think.
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PRUSA MK2
- Noctua fan 40mm
- MK2/MK3 hybrid extruder
Re: Forum re-organisation
I find search easier because I can now search within the specific subforum for the machine I have. True there are many threads with cross relevance such as the life Z and hyperfine bed tuning but they will get cross referenced within the appropriate machine specific threads.
Bill
Tagaytay City, Philippines
Founder member of Philippines Prusa Printer Owners FB Group
Sponsor Pillars of God Academy in Bacoor
Re: Forum re-organisation
A total of 42 subsections with many identical/similar topics?
IMHO that are way to many. I think that makes it way harder, especially for newcomers, to clearly find solutions to problems. But that's just my opinion. We will see how it works.
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PRUSA MK2
- Noctua fan 40mm
- MK2/MK3 hybrid extruder
Re: Forum re-organisation
I like the new sections. I have a Mk2S and a 3. I can quickly get to threads that apply to my situation and ignore a lot of threads that have no interest to me without having to read through everything.
MK2S & Mk3 my mini farm is alive 😆
Re: Forum re-organisation
There were different points of view before the forum was re formatted.
I for one. Tend to use the new posts option and the search function. Most of the time.
And the my posts option to revisit answers i have already given...
Your mileage may vary.
Regards Joan
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Re: Forum re-organisation
I liked being able to just browse the forums with a bookmark folder of ~5 tabs. I've seen some forums have the main subsection (i.e. Mk3) show all of the posts for the subsections inside, and then you can click a subsection to see only those posts. The way it's broken up now may make requests for help less visible to people with answers who are casually browsing.
Re: Forum re-organisation
We were testing several options and finally decided for Josef's idea, which might seem to detailed, but I think is best so far.
Experienced users will always find their way around, but beginners and less experienced users the previous layout caused a struggle to find their section. I'm currently moving old threads to the new layout and I see how many of them are completely out of place or same questions asked over and over again. I hope this amount will be lowered down as much as possible with the new layout.
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Re: Forum re-organisation
@Jakub.d I really missing here this listing function: View unread posts - it can saves so much time.
Re: Forum re-organisation
View unread posts - it can saves so much time.
Im using below in the top menu.
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Gert
Re: Forum re-organisation
That's great, thank you so much! 😉