Forum Changes

[bobthehobbyguy]

Any time frame for when the forum changes will be taking place?

[Firebuilder]

A  category for fire apparatus and emergency vehicles,  ambulances police cars etc., would be nice.  Fire apparatus  does not really fit with big rigs and heavy equipment. ( my personal opinion)

thanks

 

[stitchdup]

On 9/9/2025 at 3:20 PM, bobthehobbyguy said:

Any time frame for when the forum changes will be taking place?

before pluto finishes its current orbit of the sun or within 495 years

[peteski]

7 hours ago, Firebuilder said:

A  category for fire apparatus and emergency vehicles,  ambulances police cars etc., would be nice.  Fire apparatus  does not really fit with big rigs and heavy equipment. ( my personal opinion)

thanks

 

The problem is that there is not enough activity on the subject to create separate sub-forum.  For example, before the last big forum reshuffle, there was a sub-forum dedicated to  just large-scale models. As we were told, due to low number of posts, it was merged into other sub-forums.  Same with motorcycles. It would be nice to have separate sub-forum, but there isn't isn't enough activity to warrant this.

[Andrew McD]

The forum seems to function just fine as it is.  I am left wondering why you are contemplating changes?  One of my pet peeves is the frequent changes that are made to software applications that function and meet my needs.  All too often these changes seem to be made with a "because we can" attitude rather than fixing something that doesn't work.  While there are many things in life that can benefit from adjustments and changes this forum, in my opinion, isn't one of them.

[bobthehobbyguy]

The categories are fine. If people embrace tags there would be no need to make new catagories.

[iamsuperdan]

On 9/10/2025 at 9:39 AM, Firebuilder said:

A  category for fire apparatus and emergency vehicles,  ambulances police cars etc., would be nice.  Fire apparatus  does not really fit with big rigs and heavy equipment. ( my personal opinion)

thanks

 

 

On 9/10/2025 at 4:56 PM, peteski said:

The problem is that there is not enough activity on the subject to create separate sub-forum.  For example, before the last big forum reshuffle, there was a sub-forum dedicated to  just large-scale models. As we were told, due to low number of posts, it was merged into other sub-forums.  Same with motorcycles. It would be nice to have separate sub-forum, but there isn't isn't enough activity to warrant this.

 

 

Out of curiosity, I just looked into this.

I just checked the first three pages of the sub-forums, looking for anything related to emergency vehicles. Here's what I found.

Works in progress:

• Model cars - 1
• Trucks, SUV, light commercial - 2
• Big Rigs - 2

Under Glass:

• Model cars - 1
• Trucks, SUV, light commercial - 2
• Big Rigs - 2

That number roughly doubles if we include tow trucks. And some of those threads were started many, many months ago, in one case a thread is a couple of years old. It only moves forward if somone comments.  

Personally, I don't think that's enough activity to justify a seperate forum. But we will be discussing this and all the other sub-forum division ideas in our next Zoom meeting. After getting into some of the higher level and backstage issues, we're almost ready to start getting into the nitty gritty of these ideas, the ones that people will actually notice.

 

 

I'm not picking on you or the idea. Like we've said, we want to hear all of your ideas, and we're considering and discussing all of the suggestions. This is just one example that shows some of the things we look at. We could deep dive some of these ideas and get into things like the number of threads, thread start date, number of posts within each thread, number of participants in each thread, etc. 

There will be at least one additional sub-forum added. 

Plus, some clarification and renaming in some sub-forums. 

 

 

[SpeedAndViolence]

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Edited Saturday at 03:27 AM by SpeedAndViolence

[peteski]

Regardless with how many sub-forums we have there is also the fact that many threads are started in the wrong forum.  For example, take the "Model Cars Magazine News and Discussions" section.

The forum's sub-section description clearly states"Model Cars Magazine News and Discussions. This is for news and discussion about the magazine. We will be posting news and announcements, and you are welcome to ask questions. As always, please be respectful."

Just on the 1st page, 9 threads were moved to more appropriate sections, and 10 more moved on the 2nd page. If you look further, more thread moves are there.  If you look at all the moved threads, they have nothing to do with the clearly described purpose of that sub-forum.  Members just either do not read or understand the description.   Maybe MCM forum should go to the single stream of posts like the the Spotlight Hobbies forum.   Yes, I'm joking.

 

[Bugatti Fan]

Pete is right.

Too many do not take the time to think about where their threads actually should be placed in the forum.