Housecleaning Schedule

[Carthaginian]

Ok, over the next week, I'm going to be setting up the forum for the start of the new sim.

There are several issues that I'm planning to address, slowly and carefully.
1.) reorganizing the boards to group threads and topics that need to be in other sections.
2.) removing things in various boards regarding N4 left-overs.
3.) pruning the old designs from the New Ships board, basically anytihng from the previous restart attempt or prior.

There will be posted warnings prior to things being moved, and then a layover in a Limbo Forum prior to that last connecting flight to Digital Oblivion.

Start getting what you think you might need.
I know that I myself have a few designs from N3 that I want to save. ;)

[Guinness]

Let's not delete anything, but rather shove stuff to be archived down into the archives please.

[Carthaginian]

Let's not delete anything, but rather shove stuff to be archived down into the archives please.

I'm not aware of the amount of storage space, Guinness, so this is why I said 'delete.'
Also, I don't really understand why we should keep having an ever-expanding number of boards holding unnecessary information. It would be better to work from a clean slate.
We could at least remove the 'Pre-Navalism 3' board as being obsolete; nothing there has any bearing on anything at all.
The 'Navalism 4 Restart Attempt' board doesn't hold any information beyond some talk about the rules ya'll had worked up. I believe these were also held in the Moderator Boards for that incarnation, which I'm assuming you either cleaned out or kept invisible. Either way, I'm sure that the research and rules are held somewhere other than on the forum. The presence of yet another board of information that has no real game info is confusing to anyone that might want to join.
I concede that the N3 game boards might be important as people might have designs there they might like to bring back from the dead- I know I do- but they need to be more clearly archived.

If nothing else, all those things need to be pushed into a single clearly-marked and collapsed 'Archives' section to help avoid confusion on the part of new players and to keep people from accessing the forums on very primitive mobile web devices (like mine) from having to scroll through dozens of boards to get to something they need.

[Guinness]

I can certainly organize it differently, but there are lots of reasons to keep it. Among other things, we're between first and third hit on google for a number of keywords. I'd rather not lose that.

Space is not a problem at this point.

[Carthaginian]

we're between first and third hit on Google for a number of keywords

That is one of the things that I wouldn't consider; a very good thing.

[Guinness]

If we get to the point where we want to clean up more, we can make one category called "Archives" with 3 children, Before Navalism 3, Navalism 3, After Navalism 3 (or something), and bury all that stuff in there. In most themes you wouldn't see all the children unless you clicked.

[snip]

sounds good to me  :)