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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22442 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2020 12:52 pm Post subject: "Your cars...." section |
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Hi all,
I'm toying with the idea of combining all the ownership posts within the Your Cars section into a single category, rather than having the separate manufacturer categories as there are currently. I'd like to try and encourage more posters to contribute to threads that they might not otherwise spot, if they currently stick to their own maker's category only and don't venture further around the forum.
Thoughts?
RJ _________________ Rick - Admin
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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6308 Location: Derby
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2020 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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I would have thought the categories might be better expanded rather than condensed into one; although I appreciate space is limited.
Perhaps have a "your cars" heading but leading to a separate page with a more extensive alphabetical list of makes from which to choose.? |
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Minxy
Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 272 Location: West Northants
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2020 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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I agree 100%. I for one only ever look in two of the choices. _________________ Hillman minx convertible. Lanchester LD 10 |
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Keith D
Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Posts: 1129 Location: Upper Swan, Western Australia
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2020 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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I rather like Ray's suggestion.
Keith _________________ 1926 Chrysler 60 tourer
1932 Austin Seven RN long wheelbase box sedan
1950 Austin A40 tourer
1999 BMW Z3
Its weird being the same age as old people.
You are either part of the problem or part of the solution |
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4756 Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2020 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
Minxy wrote: | I agree 100%. I for one only ever look in two of the choices. |
I use the yellow/orange folder icon to tell me which boards and threads have new posts.
If I want to find older posts about a particular vehicle or problem I use the search function, and tick posts rather than topics.
The only comment I have to make about that is that a boolean search using AND, OR, NOT would be useful as sometimes using 2 or more words ends up with results which only contain one of them.
By the way that De-Bug warning is still coming up after submitting a post. _________________ Bristols should always come in pairs.
Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22442 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2020 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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Ray White wrote: | I would have thought the categories might be better expanded rather than condensed into one; although I appreciate space is limited.
Perhaps have a "your cars" heading but leading to a separate page with a more extensive alphabetical list of makes from which to choose.? |
The problem with expanding is that there may only be one post in a particular category, eg your TC resto thread under "MG". No other MG threads are running right now. Same for Vulgalour and his Lanchester. Spreading things too thinly makes people have to click more, jumping from make to make category, which leads to even less involvement over time as people get fed up clicking even more than they do now.
RJ _________________ Rick - Admin
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4104 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2020 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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We went through the same debate with the MR forum and concluded exactly the same; that categorisation wouldn't work for the rarer models as potentially only a handful of members would read them. |
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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I'll just go with the flow. I just look at the today's dated items.
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22442 Location: UK
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