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MarcusWolschon

dead forum?
April 14, 2011 05:54AM

Registered: 15 years ago
Posts: 573

Nothing here since multiple month.
Does it make sense to keep this forum?

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Traumflug

Re: dead forum?
April 15, 2011 01:29AM

Registered: 14 years ago
Posts: 7,616

As about every mendel part seller and seller-wannabe has his own forum now, people probably went there. Especially those people seeing mostly a cheap 3D printer in a RepRap machine.

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jcabrer

Re: dead forum?
April 23, 2011 10:57PM

Registered: 17 years ago
Posts: 824

I think the massive numbers of forum categories has diluted the focus a bit. "Look What I Made" has been replaced by Thingiverse, which is more suited for sharing parts.

IMHO all of the Test forum categories should go away. There is no point to having those on a live site. It just confuses the newbies. It is tough to prune a forum since you want to preserve the messages for historical reasons.

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Traumflug

Re: dead forum?
April 24, 2011 06:49AM

Registered: 14 years ago
Posts: 7,616

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It is tough to prune a forum since you want to preserve the messages for historical reasons.

Yes, history is important. You need it rarely, but it's very valueable if you need it.

One could move all threads of the closed categories into one "History" category.

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