are there any good prog rock forums?

greenback wrote: with most of members here having less than 100 reviews, you cannot ask them to agree to statements like "Citizen cain's serpents in camouflage sounds like marillion's script, and have the voice of peter gabriel or dave cousins!" anyway, you easily notice the lack of culture when you read the reviews.

Actually some (a good deal of them) reviewers have much more culture and knowledge than their numbers of reviews would have you believe. I tried many times to entice people to do more reviewing. So many group and album sections remain desperately empty of reviews.

Easy Livin wrote: Part of the problem is that the forum has become so busy. Good threads can quickly (within a day) disappear to two or three pages down the list because others are updated later. This should be addressed to some extent by the revamp of the forum, which is currently being worked on. Forum members could however help by making sure they start new threads in the right sections. The main discussions are ONLY for taking about prog, not about members who have been barred, poor reviews, favourite beers, etc. Some members seem only to look at the main discussions, and put little thought into which section their thread should be in. There's a lot more discussion to explore elsewhere in the forum too.

Maani , M@X and everyone else,

This thing about thread disappearing too quickly from sight is a major problem for the kind of issue discussed here. I posted on three relatively obscure threads this morning around 9 AM , (Help with Zappa, Quebecois albums and Oregon) and by 11AM two out of those were on second page and it is now 2PM and all three are on second page with the first one halfway down.

The Lard Free thread started by DB and to which I posted yesterday afternoon is now halfway down the third page. How do obscure band threads stand a chance?!?!?

In the meantime first page is polluted with reminder of 4 or 5 threads/subjects that have been moved because misplaced in the first place , but people keep posting (it is of course their right to do so) but those removed threads still clutter/pollute the Main Discussion.

Could those signals/reminders to moved threads disappear quickly from the main discussion, and is there a possibility of increasing the number of threads visible on page 1? Page 2 , 3 and so on holds 20 threads whereas page 1 hold 13 of which 5 are removed threads . Thus leaving 8 threads on page1 of the  Main Discussion. 

Also , must there be seven Important Topics - some of those (CivilityThreads) are important after all -  , taking up so much place on page 1, and should there be seven of them, three or four of them locked? Could they not be placed on the Forum menu, instead of being repeated on page 1 of  every sub-section? I do not know much about informatics and this "waste of space" (lack of better words as I write) may not be much in terms of bytes of memory, but it sure is in terms of screen space visible at one time.

Hope something can be done quickly!!?!!

RE : thread disappearing too quickly from sight is a major problem
Quoted by Sean Trane

I  increased yesterday the numbers of posts per pages.
Do you observe any differences guys ?

About the current thread, thanks to all for your thoughts and comments on the quality of the FORUM it will help us taking better and better decision regarding the re-vamp of the site and the forum.

Your participation is really appreciated !

Thanks