Oooooo! Sub-Forums! Is that new or am I just blind?

[Tigratrus]

Just saw the little disclosure triangle like widget for the subforums...
Nice!

 

[Ruven]

This. Much better layout tool, esp with being able to give individual forums icons to represent them.

I much prefer being able to layout forumhome using more of the horizontal space... Doing it as a strictly top down is awkward when you have a lot of forums, doing it in columns makes a lot more sense. And adding representational images makes it much more intuitive.

::tosses 2 shiny coins in hat::

A horizontal option would be awesome.
Ive always loved how the people over at http://www.footballforum.com/ do their team forums section.
I replicated it once, but it looks really bad the way i did it.
They keep most of their forums "normal" but turn the area with the teams into a series of columns.
I would love to display my subforums like that... or any kind of forum in general.

 

[Disjunto]

A lot of us run sites where our most busiest forums are indeed subforums... placed as such due to hierarchical reasons.

I run an american sports site. NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL are my main 4 "forums".
But various team forums within each of those main forums are much more busy than the top level forum.

The current system is very elegant and looks great. Removes a lot of clutter from the forumhome... but it may be a little unpractical for a lot of us.
Maybe make this feature something that can be toggled off and on?

I would like to see how you've organised your forums...

 

[Ruven]

I would like to see how you've organised your forums...

Not very well.
II think all the changes have left my database scarred for life.
I ended up settling on the most basic idea... simply using links to the forums.
You can still see the team forums in a more regular way, they are just on tabs though.
One tab per sport.
http://www.dailysportspages.com/forums/forum.php

 

["Mark"]

I also echo the sentiment of needing sub-forums to be visible. Maybe not with full descriptions, but at least with a name!