[Simon]

The growing list of pinned topics in E&RE prompted the need to hold all handy/useful/"guide-like" topics in one place. Which is why the E&RE -- Archive forum was created.

I've rearranged the archive forums so that they're now much more visible and accessible. Hopefully this will change the bad impression that an archived topic is a buried dead topic.

It should be more convenient for everyone this way... if not, we can always change back to the way before.

[SupperTails66]

The new arrangement makes me rather... uncomfortable for some reason, but it's probably just because I'm not used to it. Oh well.

[Simon]

Yeah this configuration isn't very common... but we'll see.

[Kampfer]

It's not bad. It makes archiving info more out in the open. I like it.

[Syren]

For a second I thought it was a bug in my IE, I was going to take a screeny and put it into Suggestions and Complaints. I think it's a good idea though.

[JoseTB]

In my opinion,is more organized.Is normal that at the first it looks strange,but with the time we'll see that is better.As Simon said,it makes the archives topics more visible.

[.hack//zero]

At first I didn't like it, but I'm starting to get used to it.

[Bleeding Cut]

Yeah. It is easier to find stuff. I thought my eyes were tricking me, because the first thing that came to mind was, "Wtf?!" =D

I just need to get used to the ordering of the forums.

[Trigahd]

This definitely looks a lot more professional Simon.

Bleeding Cut, on Aug 19 2004, 12:34 PM, said:

the first thing that came to mind was, "Wtf?!" =D

That's what I thought too, until I saw this topic.

[SupperTails66]

It's not exactly a bad arrangement, it's just that the archived topics get in the way of the other forums, which are more active. I think this would work better if the archive forums got their own section, but that's just my opinion.

[Quickman]

I like this new arrangement. It fits, IMO.

[ComPro]

Now that I've been using it for a while, it's really a nice layout. It works quite well.

[Qjimbo]

SupperTails66, on Aug 19 2004, 06:39 PM, said:

It's not exactly a bad arrangement, it's just that the archived topics get in the way of the other forums, which are more active. I think this would work better if the archive forums got their own section, but that's just my opinion.

Yeah I think that would be clearer aswell. Another possibility is to use a different colour emerald for the archive forums. Other than that I think it's a good move, the messageboard holds a lot of valueble info that should be looked after

[Hayate]

QJimbo, on Aug 20 2004, 07:07 PM, said:

Another possibility is to use a different colour emerald for the archive forums.

That is impossible with Invision

[Qjimbo]

bobxp, on Aug 20 2004, 03:27 PM, said:

QJimbo, on Aug 20 2004, 07:07 PM, said:

Another possibility is to use a different colour emerald for the archive forums.

That is impossible with Invision

Ah my good friend, nothing is impossible
Although I expect it's impossible with the default IPB, I can't imagine that it would be too hard to modify, there may even be a mod already out there. PHP is easy as hell to pick up anyway.

EDIT: http://www.invisionskins.com/?p=skinguide&...=uniqueforumimg
Doesn't look impossible to me....

This post has been edited by QJimbo: 20 August 2004 - 04:53 PM