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RAF Section => Suggestions / Feedback & Issues => Topic started by: Tyler on April 02, 2009, 04:50:09 PM

Title: Oy! >:(
Post by: Tyler on April 02, 2009, 04:50:09 PM
Where in the smegging smeg is the Life Board? >:( >:(
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Richard on April 02, 2009, 04:50:44 PM
I guess I should blog it then.... It was merged into the General board.
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Kelly on April 02, 2009, 05:34:01 PM
haha yeah I wondered the same thing..I thought I was just blind and couldn't find it coz I couldn't see any discussion about it anywhere!
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Brad the Brit on April 02, 2009, 05:34:50 PM
it happend a few days ago...
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Hunter on April 02, 2009, 06:05:00 PM
is it just me, or has the general fanfic section vanished as well?
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: adamjared on April 02, 2009, 07:41:49 PM
check th blog
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Duff on April 02, 2009, 08:29:09 PM
I definitely agree with the general and life board merging, cause the distinction is kinda arbitrary and it seemed to be causing alot of unnecessary work for the staff

But I still think fan fiction deserves its own board, or at least should be merged back with the animorphs fan fiction. Since the General is so big now itll be really easy to lose good stories and it will be really hard to sort through all the random threads to actually find any of the fictions

Just a thought
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Horsefan1023 (Seal) on April 02, 2009, 09:52:32 PM
Where did General Fan Fiction and Art go?!

...Stop changing things...
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Slushie Man on April 02, 2009, 09:54:51 PM
Yeah, I don't agree with the removing of the Fanfiction board AT ALL.

Sometimes I like to go find a good Fic to read, and its WAY easier when they're not muddled up with regular posts, cause now nobody will know what's a fanfic/story and what's just a regular post.

Getting rid of the Life board was fine, but I have to 100% disagree with this new change.
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Hunter on April 02, 2009, 11:52:09 PM
would it be possible to have the general fan-fic and the ani fan-fic on one section? like in a fan-fic and RP section, containing all the ani fan-fic, non ani fan-fic and all the RP's?
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: goom on April 02, 2009, 11:53:59 PM
Where in the smegging smeg is the Life Board? >:( >:(

merged with general.
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Ash on April 03, 2009, 12:23:22 AM
Yeah, I don't agree with the removing of the Fanfiction board AT ALL.

Sometimes I like to go find a good Fic to read, and its WAY easier when they're not muddled up with regular posts, cause now nobody will know what's a fanfic/story and what's just a regular post.

Getting rid of the Life board was fine, but I have to 100% disagree with this new change.
I'm with you on that.
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Estelore on April 03, 2009, 07:28:21 AM
I have to agree with the people disagreeing with the change.  :P

My One Big Reason: Any ongoing fan-fictions and RPG's are now almost guaranteed to be interrupted by people that think they're discussion threads. I've already had that happen when the distinction was comparatively clear between boards, and it pretty much threw off my whole thread.  :-\
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: DinosaurNothlit on April 03, 2009, 09:34:33 AM
Yeah, I don't agree with the removing of the Fanfiction board AT ALL.

Sometimes I like to go find a good Fic to read, and its WAY easier when they're not muddled up with regular posts, cause now nobody will know what's a fanfic/story and what's just a regular post.

Getting rid of the Life board was fine, but I have to 100% disagree with this new change.

Whose idea was this?  Seriously, we need a general fanfic board.  I've already voiced my opinions about having fanfic as a sub-board of roleplays or vice versa (and for those of you who didn't read that particular post, my opinion was that I didn't like it), and this is way, way worse.  Please please please change it back?
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Phoenix004 on April 03, 2009, 09:59:28 AM
I agree with merging General and Life, but I want General Fanfiction back!  :'(
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Horsefan1023 (Seal) on April 03, 2009, 10:53:21 AM
I am so confused...

So, where did General Fanfics go?  Did it just vanish?  Did it get merged with Animorphs Fanfics?
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Slushie Man on April 03, 2009, 11:19:24 AM
It got merged with the General board.
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Brad the Brit on April 03, 2009, 11:26:17 AM
General Fanfics should have gon in a sub folder in the general board... otherwise they will be beried and noone will ever see them.......... :'(
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Slushie Man on April 03, 2009, 11:28:46 AM
Yeah, now its pretty much guaranteed that nobody will ever read a non-Animorphs fic on this site anymore, so what's the point in even writing them anymore?
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: esplin on April 03, 2009, 11:31:55 AM
It wasnt supposed to be deleted.  It was probably an accident.

FYI

I was against any change so dont blame me.
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Brad the Brit on April 03, 2009, 11:33:45 AM
no blame no blame just a suggestion.... ;D
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Duff on April 03, 2009, 05:22:44 PM
so thats 2 of the staff members on our side...whos the odd man out...
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Hunter on April 03, 2009, 05:30:52 PM
so thats 2 of the staff members on our side...whos the odd man out...

prolly rich... *cringes in fear of being smote*
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: goom on April 03, 2009, 05:34:34 PM
I agree with merging General and Life, but I want General Fanfiction back!  :'(

wait.. general fanfiction and art was removed?
jeeze, i didn't notice. *i want it back too!*
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Brad the Brit on April 03, 2009, 05:34:58 PM
so thats 2 of the staff members on our side...whos the odd man out...

BRAD?
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Duff on April 03, 2009, 07:17:41 PM
no you're just the odd man *rimshot*
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Brad the Brit on April 03, 2009, 07:20:17 PM
i dont know weather to be hurt by that comment or not... ???
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Tyler on April 03, 2009, 07:25:04 PM
I may be the minority, but I still completely disagree with merging the boards. They are separate entities, and should remain so.

I'd also like to take this oppurtunity to restate my opinions on the Media Board: it shouldn't exist. There should be a Movies Board, and a Music Board, maybe a Television Board, though that one is optional. u_u
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Duff on April 03, 2009, 07:39:29 PM
You had a respectable opinion until you talked about cutting the media board three ways. Its pretty much the least active general board as is, it doesnt really get that cluttered

and life and general are seperate entities, but nobody knows that lol half the posts in there are "I'm not really sure what board this should go in, if its wrong could you move it?" which would really get annoying as staff
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Coal Kropotkin on April 03, 2009, 07:53:58 PM
I agree with merging life and general (Although it's kind of easy to tell the difference now that I've been here a while).
But, it makes zero logic to merge the fanfic board with the general board!
I don't even read fan fics most of the time, but Jeeze these people worked hard on these things, and now they are buried under an entire GENERAL board!

*Thinks this is redonkulas*
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: adamjared on April 03, 2009, 09:00:28 PM
How The General category should have looked:

General Board
  General Fan-Fiction and Art
  General Role-Playing
Media Area
  Movies Board
  Music Board
Bored Board
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Richard on April 03, 2009, 09:43:38 PM

I'd also like to take this oppurtunity to restate my opinions on the Media Board: it shouldn't exist. There should be a Movies Board, and a Music Board, maybe a Television Board, though that one is optional. u_u
Remember when this was the case?
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Liz on April 03, 2009, 09:52:31 PM
I think the Media Board should either be its own board or a child board of General.  I don't like the idea of segregating movies, music, etc.

I also don't agree with having fanfic in General, but that doesn't affect me as I don't read those ^^;
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Hunter on April 03, 2009, 11:46:08 PM
How The General category should have looked:

General Board
  General Fan-Fiction and Art
  General Role-Playing
Media Area
  Movies Board
  Music Board
Bored Board


ya know, thats actually a pretty good set up... i like it..
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Phoenix004 on April 04, 2009, 08:31:09 AM
The Media Board isn't active enough to need sub-sections. I know General Fanfiction wasn't hugely active either, but that's because people tend to take a while between story updates, which is why we need a board for it as people won't be able to find their story threads in General.

Richard has agreed to bring back the General Fanfiction Board, which will hopefully be appearing again later today. We will then need to move all the old threads back, so PM me with the name of your story (and preferably the link) so I can move them back.
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: esplin on April 04, 2009, 09:22:03 PM
It's fixed, view the thread I created in the general fic area.
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Tyler on April 05, 2009, 10:21:29 AM

I'd also like to take this oppurtunity to restate my opinions on the Media Board: it shouldn't exist. There should be a Movies Board, and a Music Board, maybe a Television Board, though that one is optional. u_u
Remember when this was the case?
Ah yes, the good ol' days. :)
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Phoenix004 on April 05, 2009, 10:35:20 AM
Pretty sure that was back in the days when I didn't post outside of the Animorphs boards, so I don't really remember.
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Kelly on April 05, 2009, 05:26:45 PM
Pretty sure that was back in the days when I didn't post outside of the Animorphs boards, so I don't really remember.
I remember that...you were so quiet
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Phoenix004 on April 05, 2009, 07:44:14 PM
I prefer "mysterious"  ;)
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Duff on April 05, 2009, 10:00:46 PM
do the roleplaying and fanfic boards really need to be subboards of general? they just seem completely unrelated imo and clumping them all together like that seems to just be confusing
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Richard on April 06, 2009, 12:48:11 AM
do the roleplaying and fanfic boards really need to be subboards of general? they just seem completely unrelated imo and clumping them all together like that seems to just be confusing

They really don't need to be. That being said, I think it does make that category look more tidy.

I take it you don't agree.
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Nateosaurus on April 06, 2009, 07:28:33 AM
Yeah I don't actually like it now.. but I'm sure I'll get used to it, I mean.. I hated new RAF for ages, but it grew on me for sure.
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: morfowt on April 06, 2009, 08:58:22 AM
I really don't care where they're placed since I don't really visit them anyway...
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Duff on April 06, 2009, 09:12:19 AM
do the roleplaying and fanfic boards really need to be subboards of general? they just seem completely unrelated imo and clumping them all together like that seems to just be confusing

They really don't need to be. That being said, I think it does make that category look more tidy.

I take it you don't agree.

Yea I guess I don't agree that they are the same category. They both have the word general in them, aside from that there isn't really any similarities. Alot of the people who visit the general board don't use the other two at all and vice versa.

But like Claire said, maybe it will just take some getting used to. I definitely see your reasoning on it, you don't want the general section so large that it overshadows the Animorphs section and all that good stuff.
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Liz on April 06, 2009, 06:59:53 PM
To me it seems weird that General RPs and fanfic are child boards of General Board, but Animorphs RPs and fanfic are not child boards of Animorphs Board.

But I'm a little obsessive about symmetry and all that, so.   :P
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Phoenix004 on April 06, 2009, 09:01:28 PM
But then the Animorphs section would look really small, which is the opposite of what we're trying to do.
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Richard on April 06, 2009, 09:04:12 PM
But then the Animorphs section would look really small, which is the opposite of what we're trying to do.
+1
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Liz on April 06, 2009, 10:08:07 PM
But then the Animorphs section would look really small, which is the opposite of what we're trying to do.

Oh, I know.  The obsessive-compulsive in me is just bothered by it, haha.
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Tyler on April 09, 2009, 10:10:06 AM
See, now that there's just the General Board, I can't find any of the Life threads because The number of threads has like doubled!! The number of threads has like doubled!!
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: esplin on April 09, 2009, 01:18:16 PM
I figured there would be too many threads :[
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Richard on April 09, 2009, 03:08:23 PM
I disagree with Tyler about more threads = harder to find threads.
Not only can you expand the amount of threads you see on a given page, but the search feature (the white box at the top right) is fast and reliable.
Title: Re: Oy! >:(
Post by: Tyler on April 10, 2009, 05:21:02 PM
fiiiiiiiiiiiine *pout*