[Empeg-general] Re: Hijack Forum?

[genixia@empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org]

My vote is running away at the moment...it's a toughie.

I really enjoy this bbs the way it is. The forum titles are directive in nature, but not so restrictive that threads can't wander to interesting places without going out of scope. I think that helps keeping the light-hearted atmosphere around. But, having said that, there is a lot of cross-over between 'projects' and 'programming' or 'projects' and 'technical'. And it is very easy for Hijack and JEmplode to monopolise the programming forum. But how would you resolve this?

Maybe 'projects' needs to get lost, 'programming' needs to become 'programming / software projects', 'technical' needs to become 'technical / hardware projects' and Hijack/JEmplode share a forum of their own. Personally, I'm cool with a Hijack/JEmplode forum being here - better here than elsewhere, and given the impact that the 2 projects are having on users, I think deserved. But I don't make the decisions 
'Bug Reports' shouldn't have Hijack/JEmplode stuff in as far as I'm concerned. I thought the idea of that forum was to be Empeg-produced software specific anyway. 

I really like the current centralised wish-list. It is hard for the non-techie members to know what element of the empeg software/JEmplode/Hijack trinity is responsible for the behaviour of their players, and therefore to know where to target their wish to. And it's great that the average Joe doesn't have to think too deep about this. Most of the good ideas probably come out of the blue whilst daydreaming on a long drive...it'd be a shame to temper the wild enthusiasm of 'What if it could do this?' by making the users then work out where to post the idea. I'm guessing that ideas wold get lost in the process. Besides which, some features could be implemented in more than one place - the wish is behaviour-centric, not implementation-centric, and the centralised forum is the best place to decide where the best implementation could be made.

Just my 2c