Gizmo
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1 month ago
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What's the best way to organise forum categories?
I break forum categories down into the following:
Main Niche Boards
Member Community
Official Boards
Staff Boards
The main niche boards are the most important. They should be the meat of your forum, the topics that it’s about. Put those boards at the very top because those are the topics people are joining for. Don’t make them hunt those down. I suggest 3 to 5 boards in this category.
The member community boards are stuff like introductions, off-topic, posting games, etc. There should be very few of these.
Official boards are the forum news section and the forum helpdesk.
Staff boards usually include a staff area, a storage for “evidence”, and I usually add a board that only I can access as my “virtual office”
Altogether, I wouldn’t have more than 10 to 12 boards, including staff boards.
K.I.S.S. = Keep It Stupidly Simple.
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