Challenges subforum

If enough people express interest, we can start this forum as soon as our membership increases a bit more. We're growing at a steady pace now, so we should be there soon.

Who else is interested in participating in a challenges forum?

 

Would you guys prefer for the challenges forum to be public, or private like the Showcase forum? We can also make it a sub-forum beneath the Showcase forum.

Thoughts?

 

OK. Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

 

To avoid any confusion, it may be helpful to make sure that we're all on the same page regarding forum nomenclature.

Many different forum packages are available, and each one has it's own way of doing things. This site is running vBulletin 4 (my personal favorite), and it uses different terminology than some other software packages.

With vBulletin this message board is divided into several main sections (i.e. Fantasy Writing, Fantasy Media, etc). Within each section there are different forums (i.e. Suggestions & Feedback, Writing Questions, Showcase, etc). Hence this message board is labeled as "forums" as opposed to "forum." This can be really confusing, as so many message boards handle this differently.

When adding a new area such as the one proposed, we have two options. We can create an entirely new forum within the Fantasy Writing section, or we can create a subforum beneath Showcase. Either option requires certain considerations.

Also, would you guys prefer for it to be private, or open for public viewing?

 

Hey gang,

We've gone ahead and created the challenges subforum. We're normally hesitant about adding new forums, as having too many for the membership size can be deadly to a new community. But since this is a subforum within an established forum, and the challenges are happening already, this shouldn't be a problem.

BD