What does everyone think of having a Forum in that would have a topic for each film school that would serve as a master Forum Topic for that school...

People wouldn't be able to make new topics but they'd be able to reply to the master topic.

This is of course in addition to the many topics that are already here.

Perhaps that will cut down a little on the duplicate posts on schools?

Thoughts? Trying to think of ways to tweak the film school forum section.

I think that although it'd be nice to have a thread for each school, the threads could get cluttered with various conversations going back in forth between a few people, and it may just get jammed.

Additionally, you'd need to archive each thread at the end of the admission season, and have someone make the thread and pin it at the beginning of the next one.

It would cut down on the amount of dupe threads, but I also think that it could get potentially chaotic (from experience of "master" threads).

Would a subforum for each school be too much and would it clutter everything more?

Sounds good to me

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Originally posted by mcescalante:

Would a subforum for each school be too much and would it clutter everything more?

A subforum or forum for each school would be possible - it would require alot of setup work on my end - but definitely a possibility.

What do you think?

That would be awesome. Having subforums for each school would make searches easier and would definitely be great to prevent cluttering.

Working on it now. May take another night to finish - I"m going to bed soon.

I think the board redesign really screwed up the continuity of the grad forum - I don't want to have to click back to the subforum directory every time I want to look at a thread regarding a different school.

I mean, I get it - it registers as more ad revenue for you because you get a higher number of total accesses, but for navigation, it's really frustrating.

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Originally posted by brendonb:
I think the board redesign really screwed up the continuity of the grad forum - I don't want to have to click back to the subforum directory every time I want to look at a thread regarding a different school.

I mean, I get it - it registers as more ad revenue for you because you get a higher number of total accesses, but for navigation, it's really frustrating.

Sorry, but are you serious?

You just have to click one link to the school you want. There's nothing really hard about that. Plus, it's more convenient for the future posters who want to know about future schools and don't have to search tediously for them.

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Originally posted by brendonb:
I mean, I get it - it registers as more ad revenue for you because you get a higher number of total accesses, but for navigation, it's really frustrating.

It has nothing to do with ad revenue. This site doesn't get paid on impressions.

It was for organization and to make it easy to find all topics for one school.

This is to reduce duplicate postings from different topic creators.

Also, there is always the master Active Topics list on the right.

This change has been a request from many people for a long long time.

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Originally posted by Studentfilms.com:
This is to reduce duplicate postings from different topic creators.

Also, there is always the master Active Topics list on the right.

This change has been a request from many people for a long long time.

Hey Chris, it looks great...but UCLA Undergraduate's forum doesn't work. It keeps giving me an error, processing page message.

Thanks.

Weird. Looking into the error - thanks for letting me know.

It appears to be working now.

I believe the new format would benefit from some sort of quick click that allows you to pick the most talked about schools. Maybe almost like Active Topics, but more like a bookmark tab?

Perhaps. I'd have to code it manually - why is this preferable to the Active Topics?

Active topics is useful, but there's no way to tell the undergrad topics from the grad topics, so sometimes I accidentally end up in the wrong forum. I also use the reviews on grad schools far more than I look at the other sections of the forum, and I end up scanning over them.

It would be helpful to me if there were an active topics section dedicated to the part of the forum you're currently in -- Graduate School Active Topics if you're in the grad school section, and so on.

I updated the Active Topics list to include the forum name with it. What do you think?

Oooh, it's pretty congested with all of that indexing info.

I don't have a solution just yet, but I'm fairly sure that's not gonna fly too well.

Too much text? I don't know. What does everyone else think?

Instead of UCLA Theatre Film and Television, could it just be UCLA, etc?

Tweaked a little bit. May take a bit to update in the Active Topics...