Changing the name of a forum?

The "Generation 4 Electronics Working Group" is less and less appropriate for the (small) amount of discussions doing on in there (we're now discussing Gen7).

Perhaps it should be called "Next Generation Electronics Working Group" instead? That way, it'll always be about the next generation of electronics, rather than the current one.

It also might eventually get the community out of the habit of numbering the "supposed" generations (since we seem to have skipped a couple).

One thing to think about though: Does renaming it break peoples subscription options (eg: new posts)? I've no idea, but it's easily testable by renaming one of the test forums first to see. If it's implemented decently, it won't, but I'm not an expert on Phorum.

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Does renaming it break peoples subscription options (eg: new posts)?

If you look at the URL field in your browser you'll see forums are referenced by number, so renaming should keep all links working. I support your request.

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Generation 7 Electronics	Teacup Firmware	RepRap DIY

Done. Forum is now called the generation n+1 electronics forum. This way they'll stop calling everything geneation n.

It also might eventually get the community out of the habit of numbering the "supposed" generations (since we seem to have skipped a couple).

(I just wish they'd put a full reprap.org url on the boards. That hasn't happened since Generation 1. )

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Also, you guys should do dev in reprap-dev. Not in a non-reprap-dev forum. Since you guys are dev?

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-Sebastien, RepRap.org library gnome.

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Forum is now called the generation n+1 electronics forum

Great, thanks. Well, actually we seem to have something like n+1...n+3, but that doesn't matter.

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Also, you guys should do dev in reprap-dev. Not in a non-reprap-dev forum. Since you guys are dev?

Experience from other communities is, some people prefer mailing lists, others prefer forums, many use both. Joining both with some Email-to-forum-and-back plug doesn't really work, because writing styles (e.g. amount of citing) differ substantially. Even among the same people.

Email is more "immediate", but feels limited in the number of topics at the same time. Forums are slower, but allow an unlimited number of topics and are better for showing pictures or researching older discussions.

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Generation 7 Electronics	Teacup Firmware	RepRap DIY

Forums would be more immediate if the RSS output lag was reduced. It used to be less with the old forum.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/26/2010 08:38AM by nophead.

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