Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-10543602-20140105064352

Hello members,

Lemon and I have been discussing about providing all of us a suitable forum for all of us to communicate, similar to IAHGames except that we'll have anything to discuss under the sun; not just limited to CSO and the Wiki.

The reasons are that there's no official discussion and lack of traffic to appropriate channels. One on Facebook, another on Wikia; things get messed up easily. And also lots of redundant questions and answers.

The current issues we face with the concurrent platforms:

Facebook: No customizability, personal name has to be published, anonymous users cannot view discussions without logging in.

'''Wikia forum: Lack of customizability, no paging. Discussions become too long and hard to sift through.'''

Yuku: Limited customization, not very popular.

So in order to proceed, a propose has been made to establish a dedicated phpBB forum. What benefits do we get from doing so?

- Personal profile to customize. phpBB is a very flexible forum where scripts can be changed. Lemon has previously complained that Yuku's not easily modified.

- Discussions are properly maintained. No need to scroll all the way up/ down just to quote someone.

- Reduce same questions repeated over and over. We will introduce a sticky to address them.

- All members will know where to ask questions. With one official forum, members will be more inclined to participate in discussions.

- One forum, easier to manage.

However in order to make this a success, the Wikia forum has to be disabled since I've observed that it's one of the factors that hampered traffic to the previous forum.

Poll discussion will end in 7 days. I'll need all of your feedback. I believe we can make a change for the better.

'''Establish an official(phpBB) forum to facilitate communication between members, encourage and manage discussions by disabling Wikia forum? Yes No'''  