Thoughts Media Forums: The Long Term Plan

[buzzard]

For some reason I never read this thread until Darius Wey pointed it out to me yesterday. I have only one concern with combining different interests (PPCT and Smartphones, or whatever) and that was already stated by others above.

Brighthand did this several months ago but they combined Palm and PPC (and another one or two products that I cannot recall anymore) and that site is now 90% Palm threads and posts. They developed some complicated way of getting new posts for specific topics but it didn't work as well as having a separate login for Palm and for PPC's. I rarely visit their site anymore for lack of interest in the Palm product and having to search the site for PPC topics.

Hopefully with the new PPCT there will be an easier way to get to "PPC only" with view new posts if that's what you prefer or the same for the other newly combined products. I don't have any issue with what's being done, I simply am concerned about a PPC centered website that I have a lot of interest in becoming bloated with other things and not have an effective filtering method that will ease the transition.

[buzzard]

For some reason I never read this thread until Darius Wey pointed it out to me yesterday. I have only one concern with combining different interests (PPCT and Smartphones, or whatever) and that was already stated by others above.

Brighthand did this several months ago but they combined Palm and PPC (and another one or two products that I cannot recall anymore) and that site is now 90% Palm threads and posts. They developed some complicated way of getting new posts for specific topics but it didn't work as well as having a separate login for Palm and for PPC's. I rarely visit their site anymore for lack of interest in the Palm product and having to search the site for PPC topics.

Hopefully with the new PPCT there will be an easier way to get to "PPC only" with view new posts if that's what you prefer or the same for the other newly combined products. I don't have any issue with what's being done, I simply am concerned about a PPC centered website that I have a lot of interest in becoming bloated with other things and not have an effective filtering method that will ease the transition.

[Darius Wey]

Originally Posted by buzzard

Brighthand did this several months ago but they combined Palm and PPC (and another one or two products that I cannot recall anymore) and that site is now 90% Palm threads and posts. They developed some complicated way of getting new posts for specific topics but it didn't work as well as having a separate login for Palm and for PPC's. I rarely visit their site anymore for lack of interest in the Palm product and having to search the site for PPC topics.

Our sites will still be separate. Each will retain their own front-page and set of forums. So, what's changed? Behind the fence, we're integrating it all under a single CMS. So, one user name, one password, one subscription service. You can use your single account and post on all Thoughts sites. We're actually working to make access to news and forums easier for you, not harder.

[buzzard]

EXCELLENT !!! :werenotworthy: