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Yes! This has been bugging me (not massively, but enough to feel relief at this thread) for a while now. I respectfully concur that perhaps it needs to be re-thought a little. Thank you for saying so, Geoff. :)
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I find that's a much easier way to keep up, especially since the unread page has a mark all as read link at the bottom of it, to clear out any threads you're not interested in.
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There are several issues that lead to this, and a few possible solutions.
This group is very large, and therefore ends with a high number of threads, with short turnover on all but the most popular topics.
There are also several sections not counting having one for each of the books the group has read (which get moved to the bottom of the order after the read is complete).
I find there are a lot of duplicated threads from time to time because things get easily lost.
As Geoff points out with so many threads stickied it makes a bad problem worse.
It's not reasonable to expect people will stop posting in General as it's the default (which I don't think you can change).
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Here are a couple of ideas:
1) You can modify how many threads in each section to show on the front page. This is currently set to 8 (which I think is the default). It could be bumped up to give some more visability to each group.
The problem with this is the front page is already too long and it would just push everything further down the page.
People gravitate to the first thing they see that catches their eye, which means stuff at the top has a better chance of being read.
2) Create a new section for "Group Information" posts (something that's not general). New user posts still go to default, and now the 8 most recently posted to topics are shown on the main page.
The only downside to this idea I can think of is I don't see a way in the moderation tools to prevent members from creating new threads in that section.
Mods can lock/delete threads, though. This new section should only be for threads created by the Mods, and with so many members they might have to be a bit proactive about deleting user created threads.
Even if it's put in the rules thread (which I doubt most people read anyways), people are going to try to put their threads in this section rather than in one of the categories that exist.
I've always thought the group could do with a few extra groups, especially a Deals & Sales section, because having a single thread for it gets to unwieldy .
First, thank you for the input Rob. Second, thank you for bringing to my attention the 'mark all as read' button on that page. I just knew that had to exist somewhere and now you have located it for me. That pretty much solves the problem for me.I agree that having more than 8 threads shown in each group on the main page would be excessive. But I don't think we need to add more groups just to split up threads that do just fine together.
Any other information from other readers would still be appreciated though.
I just click the main heading of each board (general,podcasts etc) and that brings up a whole page for just that board
Maybe put the calender link and submission email in the group info section of the main page. Same with the Info Beam thread, since no one has posted in it since December.
Just a thought for our mods.