Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Do we have any further developments on the possibility of subforums for the really big series...? Obviously it's too late to bring this to pass for India-England, which is likely to smash all records bar Eng-Aus-2005.
I know for certain I'm not the only one who finds *Official* threads move much, much too fast at times to come close to keeping track, even for series which involve teams reprisented by only a small amount of our CW population (eg Pakistan vs South Africa).
I appreciate there may be logistical difficulties attached to multiple subforums with the calender so absurdly crowded, given that it'd probably amount to 15 or so new forums every year... but I don't know the particulars. Is it possible for forums to be "topped" as threads can be? Then removed, to be accessed only by a certain link, once finished?
This would achieve several things...
1) as mentioned above, it would enable discussion of the series to be broken down a little more readily, and cut the "swamping" affect where you could reply to a post made 3 hours earlier and the reply would be 5 pages down the line...
2) it would save constant "we already have an *Official* thread for this... closed", because that thread created by an unwary could simply be moved rather than closed...
3) it would enable more space on the front-page, especially now that we have regularly-topped threads in addition to the at-times-rather-large number of series going on concurrently (meaning we have 7 or 8 threads topped at once). Since I know so many have such difficulty accessing the 2nd page...
4) this would be preferable for those whose main interest is *Official* threads and who rarely visit Cricket Chat aside from these...
I'm sure all this might've been said before, but if it has... I'm only repeating it, and if it hasn't I hope I might be able to contribute something to the evolution of the greatest cricketing forums in The World.
I know for certain I'm not the only one who finds *Official* threads move much, much too fast at times to come close to keeping track, even for series which involve teams reprisented by only a small amount of our CW population (eg Pakistan vs South Africa).
I appreciate there may be logistical difficulties attached to multiple subforums with the calender so absurdly crowded, given that it'd probably amount to 15 or so new forums every year... but I don't know the particulars. Is it possible for forums to be "topped" as threads can be? Then removed, to be accessed only by a certain link, once finished?
This would achieve several things...
1) as mentioned above, it would enable discussion of the series to be broken down a little more readily, and cut the "swamping" affect where you could reply to a post made 3 hours earlier and the reply would be 5 pages down the line...
2) it would save constant "we already have an *Official* thread for this... closed", because that thread created by an unwary could simply be moved rather than closed...
3) it would enable more space on the front-page, especially now that we have regularly-topped threads in addition to the at-times-rather-large number of series going on concurrently (meaning we have 7 or 8 threads topped at once). Since I know so many have such difficulty accessing the 2nd page...
4) this would be preferable for those whose main interest is *Official* threads and who rarely visit Cricket Chat aside from these...
I'm sure all this might've been said before, but if it has... I'm only repeating it, and if it hasn't I hope I might be able to contribute something to the evolution of the greatest cricketing forums in The World.
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