Slight Changes Here and There

[Koby]

You've probably noticed a few changes around the forum. From description changes, sub-forums becoming boards or being removed, renamed boards, etc...
 
I try to keep things tidy and when sections of the forum die out or don't get much activity over a long period of time they've obviously served their purpose and don't need to stick around.
 
Here is just some of the changes that have taken place:

• Anime & Manga Discussion split into their own.
• The new Manga Discussion board is named Manga/Comics and both can be discussed there and found as a sub-forum of the Entertainment board.
• What was now just an Anime Discussion board has been renamed to Anime District.
• Seasonal Anime has been renamed to Airing Anime.
• Some new rules have been posted and pinned for the Anime District and it's sub-forum Airing Anime.
• The Cartoons Discussion board has been moved from being a sub-forum of the Anime District to being a sub-forum of the more appropriately placed Entertainment board.
• The Trading Card Games sub-forum has been removed and all content placed inside the Gaming Realm.
• A new board for Kametsu Project releases has been added to the Content Distro section.
• The Media Central category has been renamed Media Discussion to emphasize it's intended use of the main discussion areas of the community.
• The iPod/PSP downloads sub-forum has been removed from complete lack of use in the past 18 months.
• The Mako Reactor is now it's own board rather than a sub-forum of the Balamb Café.
• The Otaku Releases sub-forum of Art & Literature has been removed and all contents placed in the Art & Literature section.
• All sub-forums of the Graphical Division has been removed and contents placed in the Graphical Division section.

That's just to name some of the changes. Descriptions have been altered here or there aren't worth mentioning. In the long scheme of things this doesn't really affect much of anything, but it's a bit more condensed with less sub-forums and the sections lacking in activity having been lessened.

 

We also now have a Project Crew user group for those helping with [Kametsu] tagged anime and cartoon releases to go along with the dedicated section of the Content Distro. We're still hiring help if you're interested.

 

If you feel any of these changes will have a negative impact or have some suggestions of your own, please as always feel free to express your opinions here. I'd like to hear what people would suggest as we continue to work on improving things around here.

[Moodkiller]

Hey Koby, would it make sense to have the Kametsu Projects as a sub-forum in the Dual-Audio/Subbed/Dubbed sections? My only reasoning being that many people will look in the dual-audio sections and or the other 2 for the anime they want just because of the reputation those main sections have already.

[Koby]

Hey Koby, would it make sense to have the Kametsu Projects as a sub-forum in the Dual-Audio/Subbed/Dubbed sections? My only reasoning being that many people will look in the dual-audio sections and or the other 2 for the anime they want just because of the reputation those main sections have already.

That would require three separate sub-forums and kind of defeat the purpose of having a dedicated go-to section for them. At first that may be the case, but I do hope with time that people learn the board exists and go check it out first and/or bookmark it. They'll still be listed in their respective (dual, dub, sub) index threads for those that utilize them. I'm hoping the team projects grow in number as seasons go. There is also the blog (http://projects.kametsu.com) that users can keep up with and view without a forum membership (but we do not post the filehost links there, just torrents and xdcc).

[StaticX]

I agree, having three subforums within Kametsu Releases subforum would't be efficient.

 

I think just putting _{or [Dub] in the title would be best, you could put [Dual Audio] in Dual Audio titles, but I think people would expect them to be dual audio anyway}

[JohnFlower]

Surely it's possible to create symlink like topics in each section? The real topic would still be under the 'Kametsu Projects' board, but there could also be a link to it in the 'Dual Audio' sub-forum for example.

[Moodkiller]

Surely it's possible to create symlink like topics in each section? The real topic would still be under the 'Kametsu Projects' board, but there could also be a link to it in the 'Dual Audio' sub-forum for example.

That would be a fair compromise 

[jobonline20]

can we have a sig/avt request shops sub forum in the graphical division i.e., if any of the members still have their shops open

i'm in sore need of a new sig/svt set

[Koby]

can we have a sig/avt request shops sub forum in the graphical division i.e., if any of the members still have their shops open

i'm in sore need of a new sig/svt set

There isn't any need of a sub-forum for that, people can use the main gfx board for it.

[† LimitLess]

Not sure the change for the graphical division is a good one. Everything seems jumbled together(showcases, requests, recources, competitions etc.)

 

Everything is kinda confusing now. The competitions is still active, maybe just add a sub-forum for those.

[Koby]

The contest board was originally intended and used for more than just sotw and botm. Users use to randomly battle one another and stuff. However as it stands now, we only have like 5 people who regularly participate in the sotw and usually it's just two or three entries at a time between them. The botm is lucky if it even gets an entry at all. The activity of the gfx section is completely dead outside of the sotw; so it's not like anything else is actually going to be a clusterfuck as time goes on. If activity warrants it then of course boards can be added but as it stands there isn't any need to do so. Separating the sotw into it's own sub-forum again would just leave the main gfx board dead and pointless and we'd still be at square one.

[† LimitLess]

can we have a sig/avt request shops sub forum in the graphical division i.e., if any of the members still have their shops open

i'm in sore need of a new sig/svt set

Alice's request shop is currently the only active one I can think off - http://kametsu.com/index.php?/topic/45116-yuis-gfx-request-shop/

There is also the main request shop - http://kametsu.com/index.php?/topic/124-request-a-graphic-here/

 

So yeah, barely much activity there. You can choose one of the following

[jobonline20]

 

can we have a sig/avt request shops sub forum in the graphical division i.e., if any of the members still have their shops open

i'm in sore need of a new sig/svt set

Alice's request shop is currently the only active one I can think off - http://kametsu.com/index.php?/topic/45116-yuis-gfx-request-shop/

There is also the main request shop - http://kametsu.com/index.php?/topic/124-request-a-graphic-here/

 

So yeah, barely much activity there. You can choose one of the following

 

Thanks for alice's request shop link.

the main request thread has no activity since feb