Too many sub-forums on PA?

Yesterday I posted a question on the Prog Music Lounge forum (the main one of PA).
A few hours later that post was transferred to Prog Bands, Artists and Genres Appreciation (http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=81357)

The latter forum is hardly visited by any forum members when compared to the main forum
And now there is very little chance my inquiry will be answered.

That got me thinking, does PA really need so many sub forums? I mean sure we proggers like to categorize and sub-categorize EVERYTHING (look at how many genres we have) but the truth is that our forums do not have THAT many posts a day, which makes me think all of these sub forums are redundant!

If the situation was different and the forums were more populated and active on an.. hourly basis, then I would see the point in compartmentalization, but this is not the case

what are your thought?


Edited by Verwuestung - September 22 2011 at 09:21

Padraic wrote: I think that with careful forethought, it's easy to find the right sub-forum in which to place one's thread.

Exactly.

I'm having a hard time understanding why this thread wasn't opened in the so very explicitly titled "Help Us Improve The Site" section. I guess it's not the forum's structure that is the problem here.

All the forums are listed here. Furthermore, all the active topics since your last visit are listed here. You are free to visit any of them as often as you like.

I agree, the subforums are reduntant.

i have never used the New Posts button i guess that is why im such a fail. 

aginor wrote: i have never used the New Posts button i guess that is why im such a fail.

I doubt that so many people do use that button as some here tend to guess

This is a very active forum. We split it into various sections to try to make it more user friendly. If everything was simply dumped into one section, interesting threads would quickly be overwhelmed by less interesting ones.

One obvious explanation to the lack of response in some threads, such as the "A question for Hawkwind experts" thread, is that simply not one of the 74 people who has visited the thread in the past 17 hours has been expert enough to know the answer and thus post in the thread. This would be true no matter which sub-forum the thread was posted in.

Edited by Dean - September 22 2011 at 12:53

 

Easy Livin wrote: To suggest that people only read the prog music lounge is disingenuous. Many of the most active threads are in other sections. The number of replies in this thread already is evidence that threads in other sections can be just as active.

Well to be fair, there is a marker for this thread in General Discussions. ;-)