OKC Suburb

[Zuplar]

What happened to the Suburban sub-forum? Looks like you are making changes, so wasn't sure when this was supposed to pop back up.

[Pete]

There is no more urban / suburban distinction, just Development & Buildings (consolidated the two).

If the discussion was more general -- and not particular to a specific development -- it is in the General Real Estate Topics forum.


If you are having difficulty finding a particular thread, use the search tools:

http://www.okctalk.com/announcements...arch-site.html

[Zuplar]

Sorry to post, I actually just saw the announcement, it didn't show up till I was in the Sports sub-forum. I look forward to the other changes, but honestly I'm not a fan of the consolidation right now. I really only cared about suburban development as it seemed there was always a ton of active threads in the urban forum, so for me this kind of muddys it up. Anyways this may get better so I'll hold off on being to hard at the moment.

[Pete]

Anytime we change anything it's for specific reasons that may not be completely apparent at the time.

The goal is to make things easier to find and to organize discussion in a way that makes sense.


If you would like to just see the suburban topics in the Development forum, look for the thread icons (Far North, Far West, NW OKC, etc.) that help to identify those discussions.

[Zuplar]

No I understand and I'm willing to try it out. Something else I noticed, and maybe this is me being picky, but on most sub-forum when you click in, the buttons on the top show the path in relation to where you are, example: Forum-OKCPedia-Businesses.

On some they don't show the Forum first, just the OKCPedia, and when you click on this it takes you to an odd page. This is a common way I navigate and it just doesn't seem uniform. I think the Buildings sub-forum is one that is an example of what I'm talking about.

Just thought I'd point it out, maybe it doesn't bug others lol.

[Pete]

For a few days, we will be moving some threads around to fit into the proper forums.

So, what you are seeing is likely temporary.

[Praedura]

Hey, where are my suburbs? Where are my urbs?

Pete is rearranging the furniture, and we're all bumping our shins into the coffee table -- "hey, what's that doing there?"

But seriously, this is fine with me. The distinction between the Urban/Suburban for development was often more an annoyance than a help. Made it harder to find stuff. This is better, methinks.

[Plutonic Panda]

One thing I noticed, you now can't "like" a majority of the posts since they are under OKCPedia. I like to like post that I like.

[SoonerDave]

One thing I noticed, you now can't "like" a majority of the posts since they are under OKCPedia. I like to like post that I like.

Definitely agree with this. Appears you can't "like" anything in the wiki format, which is not my favorite anyway, but I *do* "like the likes."

[HOT ROD]

I think this will be more cluttered however. I liked that there were separate urban and suburban sections; since I am more interested in the urban and don't want to dig through the numerous threads of suburb development.

I personally liked the focus group mentality, is there a way to not have a wiki section but have multiple pedia sections based on the categories:

Development - new projects cased in subsections
Under-Construction
Announced
Planned
Speculated
Infrastructure - completed projects where development items graduate (this COULD be the wiki section)
Urban
Suburban
State
National/International
Also subsections of Transportation and maybe another infrastructure area(s)
Civic - subsections include things civic government and liveability areas
OKC
Suburbs
State
Culture - news, events, announcements, and ratings (this COULD also be a wiki section)
food
sport
community
political

anyway, this is my feedback

[Plutonic Panda]

I think this will be more cluttered however. I liked that there were separate urban and suburban sections; since I am more interested in the urban and don't want to dig through the numerous threads of suburb development.

I personally liked the focus group mentality, is there a way to not have a wiki section but have multiple pedia sections based on the categories:

Development - new projects cased in subsections
Under-Construction
Announced
Planned
Speculated
Infrastructure - completed projects where development items graduate (this COULD be the wiki section)
Urban
Suburban
State
National/International
Also subsections of Transportation and maybe another infrastructure area(s)
Civic - subsections include things civic government and liveability areas
OKC
Suburbs
State
Culture - news, events, announcements, and ratings (this COULD also be a wiki section)
food
sport
community
political

anyway, this is my feedback

Have separate transportation forums covering rail+guided infrastructure, highways and roads, water and air

Also, under culture, add general health and fitness.

It would also be neat to have an Oklahoma towns and cities section for Tulsa, Ardmore, Stillwater, Enid, Woodward, Elk City etc.

[Pete]

We have purposely kept the number of forums at 17-18 because at a time we had many more and the conversations were far too spread out.

Development is still separated by icons depicting area of town.

We also have a project map that is color-coded by complete, under construction and proposed.

[ljbab728]

We have purposely kept the number of forums at 17-18 because at a time we had many more and the conversations were far too spread out.

Development is still separated by icons depicting area of town.

We also have a project map that is color-coded by complete, under construction and proposed.

I agree, Pete. It becomes completely too fractured if you get many more forums than that.

[Zuplar]

Alright well I did a couple screenshots as to what I was talking about on the forum/sub-forum navigation map. It seems as though the Development & Buildings and the Retail & Services are the only 2 like this. I'm guessing they were just set up differently than the others, but anyways this should show you better what I'm talking about.

The 2 I'm referring to look like this:



Whereas all the others are like this, which is easier to navigate back and forth:

[Zuplar]

The Summary & Reference sub-forum also does the same thing. Here is a shot of the page it takes you too.