Some of the forum section could use some splitting up. With how fast some subforum goes thanks to the increase in users a lot of threads gets buried in favor of more trendy ones.
Edit: Additional suggestion from 216th that could work in tandem with the rework: Have each category foldable on the main forum page (kinda like how spoilers work) so it's neater/easier to hid subforums you don't often frequent)
Edit2: cleaned up/reformated some stuff)
Edit3: slight changes and put each categories under spoilers so it's easier to scroll through
The Character & RP
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| Character Discussion and Showcase would be fore general show me X threads as well as just for info dumping about your OC with people while assignments could be for any "I will assign your OC an X" type of threadsCharacter Chatrooms would be for in-character chats and RP (both chatrooms that are meant to be OCs in a virtual chartroom or OC chatting in person)RP Connections would be for FL RP threads and sharing Discords servers so the Worlds subforum could be ONLY for sharing TH worldsSpecies discussion and promotion/interest check could potentially be separated too. | |
Commerce
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| Separating written commissions from the rest of the art marketplace because of how much they are at a disadvantage right now, a lot of people think it doesn't belong in the art marketplace for some reason? so having a Book marketplace just for writers sounds necessary. Also adding a Bazaar for more specialized "non-drawing" commissions (Plushies, dolls, music etc) would be nice too! I though moving Adopt Shelters away from the freebie section would make more sense too since you need to give OCs to gain currency to then use said currency in order to get a new OC back from a sheleter, it's not free and more of a trade with extra steps. | |
Creative
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| Splinting the freebie section isn't hella necessary imo but I've seen people complain about it being over saturated with LFs and not enough Os | |
Forum Games
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| Pretty much unchanged, beside moving the Shelters to the adoption sections and out of the freebies. You could also potentially split the Forum games between IC games and OOC games? | |
General & Site
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| A complete split of Ganeral and Site subforum would work well if there were to be the option to hide/collapse subforums. The introduction board would have the introduction board from the help section pinned here and would be the place for both "im new here" threads and "lf friend" threads. You could also make your own intro thread outside of the master thread could go there if people want that General chatter would have most of what the current G&OT has but with side forum to make it less clogged. Memes, "lol random" and shitpost threads would go into the Shitpostbin and Threads looking for/giving invite codes as well as discord promotion would have it's own subforum too. (The promotion forum could also be used for Artfight threads that are known to flood the G&OT during summer) The Site subforum would mostly have unchanges cathegory expt the addition of the Bug repport thread as I feel like bug report threads gets buried by suggestions? It could also help finding/linking people to known bug thread+fixes whenever they post about it in the help section like the gallery number bug and such! | |
Feel free to discuss how you'd rework some part
https://toyhou.se/~forums/14.suggestions-bugs/365594.separate-character-games-from-freebies- this thread is very popular!! actually one of the top threads on here atm haha-
that is valid, personally I’ve never seen most of these suggestions myself lol!! but they are probably out there!! :O