Promotion Directory - What do you Prefer?

[kfander]

I wasn't around for the old setup, but I think it makes for a more organized forum to have topic separated by category.

 

[Tindris]

There are many issues with both systems and I guess changes should be made depending on what direction we are wanting to take. What is the true end of the directory? Is it just to list a ton of forums that people might want to join or is it for truly helping giving forums exposure? How the forum is laid out would be very different for these 2 options.

 

[Jordan]

Alright I clicked keep the new.

Simply because the entire point of the promotion directory is to promote your board to others. You don't want people looking for gaming sites looking at sports sites and vise versa. It will be easier for people who are interested in certain topics to find the site they would be interested in joining, thus, also getting more users to the OP's website. It's is a win win. not sure why you would want to go back to the old 😵

Old system = used a couple of years ago. All topics were placed in one forum instead of different categories. This makes each topic a lot more visible.

How would it make each topic a lot more visible if one entire section is filled with hundreds of websites and forums with different genres??? Not to mention constantly going down the page with new people updating their old threads or making new ones in which creates more spam for you guys from people "bumping" their threads.

I voted "Use the old but with modifications". I think the previous way worked better in terms of getting topics more visible and seen by more users rather than hidden in a subforum where most users would only see the topics in the subforum they have a topic in. The modification I would like to see is the ability for a user to categorize their topic using one of a number of pre-determined attributes. Then have some sort of sort/filter function where a user can select a certain category and only see those forums. By default users would see topics listed from newest to oldest for all topics no matter what attribute is set.

It will be like the promotion directory now but all run from one forum. Kind of taking the best parts of both the new and the old system and putting them together into one in my opinion.

It would require an update to the attributes mod and a bit of custom coding but I don't think it will be a great deal of work.

There are highly stable mods to do this with both IPB and xenForo. If we decide to convert to either of those softwares, this suggestion becomes very simple. I agree that it would also be easy to custom code as well. Overall, I agree with this idea.

XenForo has this built in. If you guys can do this then by all means go back to the old system.
Example: (Sorry, using my site as an example simply because it is a valid one)
Our promotion forum does not use categories even though I should add it. However it does have Website, blog, or forum attributes. as seen here:
https://www.webgurubb.com/forums/promotion-room.20/
But, if you are only looking to join forums you can click the "forum" attribute and it will only show all forum threads in the promotion directory:
https://www.webgurubb.com/forums/promot ... efix_id=15

You can have a similar set up but with categories such as games, sports, webmaster, etc.
XenForo also allows you to have two different prefix's if you desire to have both categories and let the users know if its a website, blog, or forum.