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« on: November 06, 2018, 05:53:56 »
It's very very rare these days for something to pop up that makes me ask new questions about our board structure - and results in a lightbulb moment.  One of those rare occasions this morning - a post from BigNoseMac about changes to Flickr accounts in two months time and the question "where does THAT go"?

News, Help and Assistance has had the subtext "News about this site, and an area where you can ask for help on how to use it" previously ... I have amended that to "News about this site, and an area where you can ask for help on how to use it and other online sites" . The area (in which I'm posting this) is / has really become the ground for meta-discussions - in other words discussions about the mechanisms and structure of how we post and use the forum, and the additional four words are a pointer to / admission of that.

I have also added the word rail to the subtext of Across the West. That is such a vigorous area with GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) and general train posts on this part of the network, and I fear that covering meta-topics there too risks those meta-topics being lost between the tracks.
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I had the internal debate about where to put the Flickr topic. Glad to see that I wasn't alone.

Certain 'general' boards (Frequent Posters, And Also) were considered but quickly dismissed because they aren't fully public and won't show in search results. The pre-change 'News, Help...' board was considered too, but that was, until today's change, inward looking. So I plumped for 'Across the West', because its a board that covers all rail topics. I'd be informing mostly rail enthusiast folk who may have much of their library of rail related photos and media on Flickr.

An imperfect choice, which has now been made more perfect. Thanks for the board 'pointer' updates grahame. Top work.

Which reminds me. There's some slightly old Photobucket news that should be brought to the forum. Now, Where's that topic? (Rhetorical)  Wink
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