I just made a thread about discussing electrical interference from wires, but there wasn’t a suitable topic category to put it in. Extortion’s forum has a “Esk8 Mechanics” category which would suit this perfectly.
However, I do think that too many categories could be an issue. I propose the following changes, others can weigh in if they have better ideas:
Add a “Esk8 Mechanics” category for everything related to building boards, but not build threads, which have their own category. This would also include innovations, because, hey, those are mechanics as well.
Merge the “Group rides” and “Events” categories, because group rides organized on the forum are usually big enough to count as events. This could be reversed in case those categories suddenly explode in popularity with posts.
The blue colored forum’s “Parts market” category had sub categories for “Group buys”, “Wanted items”, “Used items for sale” and “New items for sale”. The latter two have been especially useful.
Also, maybe we could impose a rule that posts selling items must begin with [Continent] ? There are too many US posts, and not everyone adds [EU], so opportunists really need to click on each and every post that doesn’t have [US] in order to find deals. Maybe that’s just me, idk
Add a “Prebuilt boards” category for discussing non-DIY boards. Have to be inclusive after all.
That’s about it. The free speech suppressing forum also had categories like “Esk8 asthetics” & “Meta”, which I think we can do without, and the “Videos and Photos” category isn’t needed because we have dedicated threads for those, and I think it’s good to keep everything in those as a nice list.
Yes please. I don’t like the main pictures thread being cluttered with items for sale. When I first joined the forum I just spent days going through the pictures only thread, feeling a sense of euphoria and inspiration non-stop. It’s why I delete my more meme like pictures eventually from it.