Javis Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 Hey all, I have made some recent changes to the forums. Including getting rid of one of the WIP sections (by way of merging the two WIP areas). Creating a new Finished Gallery section. I've also organized forums into logical categories to help locate specific forums, especially for new users. What do you all think of the changes? Another thing I'll be posting is FAQs in the near future, for many different things. I have a request for the community... I don't have a lot of time to scour the forums, so what I would like is this: If you have a frequently asked question, or topic that you know the answer to, please email me (see email below), subject heading: 3DC - FAQ. This could be anything relating to 3DC. From texture painting to voxels, you name it, I want it. I will be going through all of the submissions and compiling them into a nice and tidy FAQ that I'll post up on the new announcement section. Also, on the same note, this one is a little further out, but, if you have a tip or trick that you would like to see in the new announcement section for the tips and tricks, also please email me, subject heading: 3DC - Tips & Tricks Nutshell version: Subject Heading for tipsntricks: 3DC - Tips & Tricks Subject Heading for FAQ: 3DC - FAQ My email is: 3dcoat [AT] javisjones [DOT] com OK, thanks all. I look forward to your crits & comments! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Ghostdog Posted July 23, 2009 Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 Change is a good thing & it's also pretty good to see the change was done fairly quickly after it was identified it was needed. With myself I find after a while with software I start to visit only the forums & not the software 'homepage' so I somewhat selfishly expect some 'homepage' features within a forum 'micro-site'. To explain another way, I think the forum should duplicate features of the homepage. Specifically features to encourage learning & development and anything that can inspire creativity. I think we do a pretty good job here, and the tidy-up of gallerys can only be improved by links to more resources. We've seen posts regarding a resource of brushes - there are many other potential resources so it could be difficult to control the organisation of this unless we think in advance. FAQs - yes yes yes to Faqs. But being a FAQ they should be written for newbies, which means a more experienced user is NOT the best author of a FAQ unless they're skilled at the friendly-dumbing-it-down aspect. Offtopic stuff - I personally see forum moderation on this category as a good thing. The somewhat recent "Religion" debate in my opinion was not healthy and had its fair share of troll-like behaviour. I'd like to have seen it locked to be honest. Finally at times of change like this don't forget to pat yourselves on the back for a job well-done already, and further pats for wanting to do better! All the best, Robbie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor LJB Posted July 23, 2009 Contributor Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 Bravo, I no longer feel quite so boggled! also i like the addition of a finshed work Catagory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taros Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 A good decision. At first glance everything looks good and logical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ghib Posted July 23, 2009 Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 Definitely a massive improvement. Thumbs up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taros Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 Yes, and now it is up to us to follow the rules... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 I'm glad to see a finished art area. The sketchbooks were fun when VS was new and in testing, but I feel like nobody wants to finish anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Unleashed Posted July 23, 2009 Member Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 nice changes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javis Posted July 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 Thanks everyone! I am trying to keep it simple. Ghostdog, thanks for all the input! I too hardly ever go to the main site after a little while... I tend to hit the forums almost exclusively. So I too like to have a micro-site for feature that you would find on the main site. I will surely include a sticky post in the announcement section containing all the tutorials, downloads, and other such information. I'd like to see the forums vibrant and full of information with links to all external information there is! For the FAQs, I will definitely try to keep things as simple as possible. I am entirely open to suggestions and help, just email me at the above email if anyone wants to do so. I plan to have as much information posted right at the top of the forums so people can get the information as instantaneously as possible. Anyway, I will run the editing through someone that doesn't even know 3D to see how readable it is, and then run it through someone that is a 3D newbie. Just to make sure it is as easy to follow as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member geo_n Posted July 24, 2009 Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 like the new categories. good work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Paint Guy Posted July 24, 2009 Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Great job Gavin, the Forum has a professional look to it now. Much easier to find topics too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javis Posted July 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 No problem! Yes indeed, it is much easier to locate stuff. (PS- My name is Javis, pronounced like Jay-Vis, I don't take offense so you don't have to apologize, I get all sorts of names other then my own ever since I was a young ladd! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taros Posted July 29, 2009 Report Share Posted July 29, 2009 Please switch the forum to utf8-compatible text. When I am writing some letters in german, I can see them right in the preview, but later the post isn't correct. Is it a bug? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javis Posted July 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 Hey Taros, I took a look but I couldn't find anything on there for this setting. I will let Andrew know, but just in case he can't do anything either... I wanted to let you know that the webmaster will be away for almost 2 weeks, so it probably wont change until he gets back. Just FYI! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taros Posted July 31, 2009 Report Share Posted July 31, 2009 Hey Taros,I took a look but I couldn't find anything on there for this setting. I will let Andrew know, but just in case he can't do anything either... I wanted to let you know that the webmaster will be away for almost 2 weeks, so it probably wont change until he gets back. Just FYI! No problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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