Organizing the categories & topics of JoeUser

Consolidation about to begin

Published on February 3, 2004 By Draginol In Work Reports

To organize the site better for future growth, we have implemented topics (sub-categories). There will be nested sub-topics as well.

What we want to do is decrease the # of channels overall and instead let users post into those fewer channels on a wider range of topics. Users interested in those topics will be able to delve deeper and deeper into that category by going to a particular topic.

Let me give you an example:

Let's say you're really into history. You click on the history forum or channel and you see ALL the articles that are of the category of history. But maybe you feel overwhelmed by hundreds of articles ranging from the Fall of the Roman Empire to weapons used in World War I. Let's say you want instead to just talk about the Civil War.

You would go to History::Civil War and see just posts that are of that topic.

Eventually it could get even deeper:

History::Civil War::Gettysburgh

What most sites do is have very seperate forums with each forum being exclusive. On JoeUser, we'll be taking the opposite path, each forum is inclusive with the broader the category/channel, the broader the articles/posts. Anything that shows up in a sub-topic will also show up in the parent topic and the parent channel/category.

Here's what we have so far.

Personal Computing

Hardware
    Desktops
    Monitors
    Laptops
    Video Cards
    Printers
    Hard Drives
Software
    Development
        Longhorn
        .NET
        XAML
        C++
        Visual Basic
        .ASP
        SQL
    Operating Systems
        Windows
        Linux
        MacOS
    Customization
        Skinning
        Icons
        Tutorials
        Help
        WindowBlinds
        DesktopX
    Internet
        Usenet

Entertainment
    Books
    Movies & TV
    Gaming
        PC Games
            Strategy
            Adventure
            Action
        Console Games
    Music

Politics
    Republican
    Democrat
    International

Blogging
    Welcome

History
    Current Events
    World War II
    Civil War
    Europe

Personal Relationsips
    Home & Family
    Pets & Nature
    Adults Only

Philosophy

Business
    Consumer Issues
    Work Reports

Hobbies & Recreation
    Gadgets & Electronics
    HDTV
    PVRs
    Photography
    Sports & Leisure

Home Improvement

The next step is to consolidate the existing articles into this structure. Feel free to suggest changes or additions.

Comments (Page 2)

Superpsych

on Feb 04, 2004

Hi,

I'm sorry to comment here as it has nothing to do with your article, but have tried emailing you a few times to no avail. I am fed up with getting abused by one particular person (if you could call them that) with the nickname deleted_. He keeps commenting on my articles and being very offensive. Please go to one of my most recent articles (The night watchwoman) and see for yourself. Please do something about this.

JeremyG

on Feb 04, 2004

So you know you can delete any responses to your blogs. But it's hardly harrassment for people to be idiots. Perhaps you're taking it too seriously.....negative comments are part of the fun.

Draginol

on Feb 04, 2004

We are going to add a feature that allows people to decide whether comments will be allowed on their blog.

Draginol

on Feb 04, 2004

As for the sytsem itself, we are not asking for suggestions on how to do an entirely new system. We are merely asking for anysuggestions on addition sub-topics. The system we have crafted is not open to suggestion as we're the ones doing the actual work so we tend to implement it the way we want to do it.

deleted_

on Feb 04, 2004

why does some dirty money hungry kike keep deleting my posts!?

Draginol

on Feb 04, 2004

I do because you're an idiot.

deleted_

on Feb 05, 2004

i'd rather be an idiot then a dirty money hungry kike.

Draginol

on Feb 05, 2004

I'm not a kike. Just money grubbing.

guess

on Feb 07, 2004

touche! - people don't you have ANY, absolutley ANY-thing better to do the argue? leave his posts, when given enough rope!

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