Changes to the layout poll

We've been doing a lot of thinking about the layout of the Road section, and we think we've come up with a decent idea for a new layout, so now we need your feedback.
The changes:
Therefore, the new list of subfora will be:
FAQs
C+ Office
ProCycling Office
Triathlon+ Discussion
Amateur Racing
Pro Racing
Beginners
Cake Stop
Buying
Workshop
Training
Road Rides and Riding
Tour/Expedition
Campaign
Track
Special Interests
We need your feedback on the proposed changes. The changes are being made to make the forum better for you, so let us know your feelings.
The changes:
- The Race section will be replaced by Amateur Racing and Pro Racing. Amateur Racing will be for the races/TTs that you are competing in, Pro Racing will be for discussion of the professional teams and races. Women's Racing will be merged into these new sections.
- Road Gear & Know-how will be split into Workshop and Buying Advice.
- Sportives and Road Rides will become Road Rides and Riding. No real change here, just a slight repurposing, this will be where you can ask for people from your area to ride with in addition to the discussion of sportives, audax events etc.
- Soapbox will be merged into Campaign and Cake Stop. Cycling related topics will go into Campaign, and non-cycling rants will go into the Cake Stop.
Therefore, the new list of subfora will be:
FAQs
C+ Office
ProCycling Office
Triathlon+ Discussion
Amateur Racing
Pro Racing
Beginners
Cake Stop
Buying
Workshop
Training
Road Rides and Riding
Tour/Expedition
Campaign
Track
Special Interests
We need your feedback on the proposed changes. The changes are being made to make the forum better for you, so let us know your feelings.
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However, can you get the subfora permanently displayed below the ROAD header(and the other sections) on the index page? As it stands at the minute all it means is that you turn up at the index page and then have an extra click to get to the sections wanted. A good example is with the commuting forum which has only 2 subfora yet you have to access it from the index page.
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If you only use the Road forum, set your bookmark to http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/index.php?c=4 and it will behave in the way you want.
Could it also be an option to add Commuting back into Road?
And a handy 'Road - Active Topics' button would be good.
For the active topics, try this: http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/search. ... arch_cat=4
And why has Track got it's own Board? Shirley this should be part of Race? The split of Know How into 2 Boards looks pretty pointless.
In all - it just looks too busy with too many options to me.
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A lot of people will read through all sub-categories within a category (I tend to look at road and commuting) - adding extra sub-categories will just mean the already limited search function becomes even harder to search.
Is this the reason that the forum has been very slow running of late, and quite often hanging for a few minutes at a time?
Is there still a need for Beginners anymore, will they not be catered for in the remaining catagories?
I do not have a problem with the refresh otherwise.
Amen to that
I feel there is for proper beginners topics, so I'll be moderating it a bit more firmly. Much of what is in there would belong in buying/the workshop, and this will be enforced.
+1
Was going to say the same thing myself.
For example, If I create a thread asking for help indexing my gears I want the most possible answers, regardless of whether the other forums members ride a mountain bike or a road bike. Just because someone rides a slightly different bike doesn't mean they can't help me with my problem.
Buying advice is different, in that case I think it still makes sense to separate them but not for the workshop.
Well it's not really cycling is it - if they start publishing a flower arranging mag are we going to get a section for that too - nothing against triathlon at all - why not combine all the magazine office sections into one - it's not as if they are that busy.
And yeah the stickys are annoying - except for exceptional threads get rid.
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Yes, brother, amen, amen indeed! Absolutely maximum 3 stickies per section. Cake stop is currently far too messy with these things. Best ride, best bike, metric century, my commute etc. are appropriate for stickies; the rest must go.
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Campaign and soapbox were created out of cake stop to
a) take rants and arguments away from the friendly atmosphere of cakestop
b) prevent cycle campaigning ideas from getting l;ost in the rants of soapbox
It ain't broken - don't fix it
Road Gear & Know-how will be split into Workshop and Buying Advice - so we wil have three different sections for getting advice ( there is one in commuting)
You seem intent on splitting up that which goes together and merging those which should remain seperate
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1 answer to vote for it, but 2 to vote against it making it easier to claim that more were for it than any other option
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surely riding covers everything- ie racing, touring, commuting, track,mtb etc- why create overlapping fora?
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I also see his point on the difference between campaign and soapbox, but in reality the threads are of a similar vein. A rant about something followed by a campaign to get something done about it. Merge by all means but keep it out of cakestop - keep cakestop for light-hearted banter.
Poss. merge track into special interests? It would be nice to have it all in with 'racing' but I imagine being minority 'special interests' they'd get lost in amongst the road racing topics. Actually i've always found it curious that 'track' comes under the 'road' category.
Hi there.
I think you're missing the point of the Triathlon+ magazine... If there is going to be a forum to support readers of the new magazine, then I'd expect that training, equipment and race topics would cover all three aspects of the sport, not just cycling.
Hence better to have it's own forum. If not just to stop you guys complaining about 'flower arrangers' posting in 'your' forum.
Cheers, Andy
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That's one of the 3 or 4 forums I hang out in and it's definitely a good idea... one that's needed imho.
Race: Definitely good idea. I like amateur racing but not yet another pro on drugs thread.
Road Rides and Riding: is too general a topic. Also since adding the Sportive description to the title a while back a significant number (majority?) of posts have been Sportive related. So I would leave this alone.
Think another sub forum is needed to post general questions that dont fit into any specific category. At the moment I post these into Beginners.
One aspect which will I suspect never be addressed is the large number of cyclists whose interests are neither "road" (sadly nowadays almost solely taken as synonomous with RACING bikes) nor "mtb" but BIKES! And never forget that such BIKE riders are the biggest category within the whole pedal cycle population!
I suppose leaving "Commuting" as is atands is the best that you can do in this respect.
Let's at least avoid the long-drawn out debate that, as I recall, accompanied the re-namimg of what is now "Special Interests"!
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forget beginners they post everywhere anyway
I'd keep 'know how' in one place too.