Forum:Index and related matters/Discussion

Robin's preliminary thoughts
These are up and running before anyone saw the need to discuss them on the forum index talk page (unless people tried that, as I did, and found the spam filter blocked them!). Clearly no stated opposition to the idea.

Now - how to get readers to them from the index page? I presciently added the links to help desk and watercooler at the top so that those would not get lost in a mass of thousands of county talk forums. (Can we try to have them all listed, or try a few and see what happens? Or will they just appear as soon as someone puts some actual content into one? If it's the latter, that's OK - sort of - once a forum has started, but I guess anyone wanting to start one will have to start at the county page where we have a link to the forum. I should try that, I suppose.)

When we get hundreds or more on the index page, it will be useful for browsing by people who have 13,000+ relatives in their files and want to see if any of the thousand counties they are interested in has any recent talk. Not much other use?

Robin Patterson 01:31, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Arrangement of page
When the list gets long, some of the instructions below it would be better moved above it. Robin Patterson 01:31, 18 November 2007 (UTC)