site reorganisation

[hyo silver]

Hey, this is different.

Why not have a section for the generation one, too?

edit: Ahh, there is one, but it's under Gen2. And wasn't Detroit about Gen3?

(I'll assume the restructuring is ongoing)

[prioki]

I would like this too. I didn't realize that Gen1 was under Gen2 (???). I have a 2001 Prius and would love to read posts from others who also have this model.

[Danny]

Yes, the re-org is still ongoing, but I'm up for listening to feedback from the community. Soon the rest of the non-Gen2 forums will be moved out from under that hierarchy, including the Gen I forum. I'm not going to make any of the in-depth forums for Gen I since it is lightly trafficked.

[hyo silver]

Will there be a "kid's play area" for the houses of Fred?

[HTMLSpinnr]

I'd like to see the 2010 Link disappear from the drop down up top. Reason being is it seems this main forum ends up being the catch-all for many new posters. Many of the misdirected posts either belong in specific sub-forums, or even under the Gen II section. It's not easy for the mods to police this kind of misdirection, and part of it can be mitigated through simple UI changes.

Keeping topics in the correct forums helps to make a more usable forum.

[ChapmanF]

Now I can't find the Gen I Forum listed at all. My bookmark still works, but am I overlooking it somehow in the forum list?

Also, will there be any Prius Main Forum, for posts that are Prius-related or of interest to Prius owners whichever model they drive? Do they all belong in Fred's now? That doesn't seem right, Fred's is described as anything unrelated to the Prius.

What would be the appropriate forum now for, e.g., Bob Wilson's bell-the-hybrid updates? Prius and Hybrid News? Would that work if discussion threads developed?

I'm not trying to be critical of the reorg, just thinking aloud while I try to figure it out.
I do think a non-model-specific forum might be useful.

Or, does the software support tagging of some sort? Could a poster add a "Gen-3-specific" tag to a thread, where the software could automagically link a nonspecific thread under all the relevant "forums" but a gen-3-specific thread would only appear under a gen-3 and general heading?

Anybody else think that might help avoid fragmenting the forums too much, and allow more cross-pollination of ideas from people who happen to have different Prius models?

-Chap