Noah
Frequent Poster
Okay, so currently as ModRetro stands, there is a lot of good information on the forums. However, just because it is there, it doesn't mean it's necessarily jumping out at you when you go onto a subforum. For example, Bush recently made a pinout for GameCube controller ports on the Wii, and I printed it out. I went back to try and find it on the site, and I can't. Put simply: The information is spewed all over the site with no central form of organization.
The stickies are outdated and don't link to all that much information. Also, now that imageshack seems to be deleting most of their old images, we are losing a lot of good diagrams that were on older guides. If you go onto the N64 mega-sticky, a lot of the guides now have dead images, rendering them useless.
I've seen Palmer posting a number of times about a "forum revamp" and all of this good stuff, but he doesn't have all that much time on his hands anymore it would seem, or if he does he doesn't spend it here. We need to gather all of the information and centralize it into some new mass database of information. (A Wiki would be nice. However we'd obviously need a requirement for editing pages, post count maybe?) Portabilizing is declining already as it is, and now I'm seeing new members joining the site asking questions that could be answered if we had a centralized bank of information. Instead of making a new thread for a guide and then having to wait months and months for it to be stickied if at all, it would be really nice if we could just have one area designated to information on that specific console/whatever.
Just a few of my thoughts on the site. Since Bacteria and SS took their forums down, we lost a decent chunk of information. Let's not let the amount we have left get lost in the void of the subforums.
The stickies are outdated and don't link to all that much information. Also, now that imageshack seems to be deleting most of their old images, we are losing a lot of good diagrams that were on older guides. If you go onto the N64 mega-sticky, a lot of the guides now have dead images, rendering them useless.
I've seen Palmer posting a number of times about a "forum revamp" and all of this good stuff, but he doesn't have all that much time on his hands anymore it would seem, or if he does he doesn't spend it here. We need to gather all of the information and centralize it into some new mass database of information. (A Wiki would be nice. However we'd obviously need a requirement for editing pages, post count maybe?) Portabilizing is declining already as it is, and now I'm seeing new members joining the site asking questions that could be answered if we had a centralized bank of information. Instead of making a new thread for a guide and then having to wait months and months for it to be stickied if at all, it would be really nice if we could just have one area designated to information on that specific console/whatever.
Just a few of my thoughts on the site. Since Bacteria and SS took their forums down, we lost a decent chunk of information. Let's not let the amount we have left get lost in the void of the subforums.