while we're still waiting for more members of the guild to find their way here to the website, Morntha brought up a suggestion - as (s)he might be unable to post, I'm repeating it here as one of the possible suggestion/feedback being offered - (s)he is welcome to replace this post or update it if I accidentally mis-represent their suggestion
Morntha was suggesting that with so many forums, the website felt a little barren, and suggesting narrowing down the number of different forums so that the ones we had left would appear more active. Certainly an interesting suggestion, and worthy of some consideration.
For my own part, I'm inclined to leave it as is, *partly* because this is how *I* tend to subdivide things in my own mind, and partly because I'm really quite hoping that even with a relatively small population, many of us will be active as far as expressing ourselves and our ideas, and I would like to make it as easy as possible to find the right place to put our ideas so that they're easily found and referenced.
I like to think of it as "future proofing" the forums, by making them big and expansive now, I'm hoping we'll have plenty of room to grow into.
Now, another perfectly reasonable option, is to pare down the number of forums *currently*, and then expand them as traffic increases (as I would like to hope that it will). Another option absolutely worth of discussion.
Again, for myself however, the time I've spent *currently* figuring out how this website design process works, has convinced me that when the time comes to re-build the forums to a larger, more expansive design, there will be enough existing posts that have to be moved, that, quite frankly, I imagine it would be a nightmare of epic proportions...
admittedly, this isn't really the *best* format to have this discussion - I'm paraphrasing Morntha's idea while simultaneously presenting my own counter argument, so, I welcome Morntha re-posting when (s)he finds the chance
and I look forward to hearing any other ideas, suggestions or recommendations as well - once we've had a larger range of input, we can make some decisions
this discussion is open for everyone in the guild
hope to hear from you all soon!