Thread: no further subforum classification in the Alternatives forum
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2009-05-11 , 20:35
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Originally Posted by mullf View Post
In other words, when people were writing titles for a thread in the PALM subforum, they didn't feel the need to put "PALM" in the title because it was in the PALM subforum, so that was already assumed. Now that there isn't a PALM subforum, this has become an unanticipated problem.

Maybe all the threads from the old PALM subforum should have been appended "PALM: " or "[PALM] " at the beginning of the post title? And the same with the other subforums. I believe Peguinbait has asked if the list of threads in the old subforums still exist somewhere. Maybe it is possible for someone to still append all the old threads?
Alright, last time I say it (Reggie had said it a couple of times as well): this is exactly what Reggie did. He appended the [Palm OS], [Android], [KDE] etc tags at the beginning of all posts of each thread. Because it was anticipated that otherwise we might had a problem.

Thanks to these tags *I think* the problem is little to none. It's more a formal problem (it feel better to have an own subforum) than real (users use mainly search engines and they are as clever or stupid to find what they are looking for wit or without subforums).