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Here you may post messages or questions pertaining to issues regarding the types of and use of substrate in caging, aquarium, and terrarium systems.
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PHWyvern

I can agree with these forums because of the fact that they make searching easier... but i typically frequent the chondro forum, rat snake, corn snake, general snakes, and caging and habitat forums. i know it will make it easier for searching purposes, but i really think this is going to cut down on the number of replies people get who post in these forums. for example... i frequent those 5 forums. now the snake forums now have 4-6 sub forums, making this close to 30 forums! I'll tell you right now i don't have time to view all these forums seeing who needs help. I really feel that a lot of people are going to be the same way.

People won't get the help they need, so they'll double or triple post in other sub forums or in the main forum again. This will just increase traffic on the website - meaning more bandwidth needed (more money more ads, etc...) then it will be more storage on the servers hard drive. one or two threads double/triple posted wont hurt... but i presume thats why theres a limit to 3 forums the same thread can go on - due to server space and bandwidth.

I agree the sub forums are good for searching, as I have said. It would be pretty stupid to physically copy the thread over into the main forum, so my suggestion would be to create a shortcut to all the threads in the sub forums into the main forums. That way it will severly limit the number of multiple posts, as well as getting people the help they need.

A complaint the admins could make to me is that each shortcut takes about 3 KB of space. Having one shortcut per thread and one per each reply could be a huge amount of space taken up - even more than the afformentioned multiple posting. So my solution to that would be one of two options. Either just create a shortcut to the post in the subforum with a little box next to it which says if there are any new replies that the person has not read yet (simple cookie); or get rid of the subforums altogether, but create a better search engine. How would one go about doing that you may ask? At the bottom of the text entry box when creating a new thread there could be a couple check boxes. These could say the sub forums. Then when someone is searching, he or she would click that and it would bring up every thread, just as if there was an actual sub-forum.

Just my thoughts on the new system. I'd apprecaite to hear what the pet hobbyist admins have to say to this.

-Chris
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-Chris

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