An idea might be having subforums, so that Movie Club and Gamin' Dungeon could be inside of Off Topic. Alternatively, I don't know how easy it is to move them around, if it starts as a seperate one but six months down the line it fizzles and could get rearranged as an OT subforum.

I like the idea of semi-formalizing things, though taking such things slowly is probably a good idea.

I don't have any ideas for a new subforum subject currently. I suspect such things will arise organically as we go along.

Well just speaking selfishly, I'd love to have a separate section for the movie club. A) so the posts don't keep getting lost, and B) It would just help get some eyes on it, instead of being hidden in the off-topic section.

That said, I do really like the idea of having subforums for these various sorts of projects. It's always struck me as weird that the FIYH only really has 4-5 sections. I think the most logical way to do it, would be to create a separate section (Ala, off-topic, episodes) on the main page for "Community Projects" or something like that, and then within that have various sub forums and threads for things like the Movie Club or song projects, or fanfilms, or Road Trips, or what have you. Anything that involves community coordination and communication basically.

Cause I'm sure it would be nice for,say, Zarban's project to have a thread specifically just for VFX communication, or edit communication, without creating 16 different threads in off-topic.

And then keep the off-topic section generally like it is now, (not cluttered up with subforums), cause I think that's been working out well for us.

The counter-argument though is that if you put it in its own section, you will only get people who already know about the project to click there, whereas having it as part of the off-topic section, you'll get people just browsing casually to see it.

No idea if that's true but it had occurred to me. I certainly visit the Reviews section way less than off-topic for example, so the more you divide the forum into sub-sections, the more you segment the userbase.

The movie club would kinda fit in the review section though?

Technically, since the podcast is done and the forum isn't really attached to a project anymore, everything is off topic.

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