less breakdowns please

[jerry]

Had some experience with forums... and this one isn't doing things right I'm afraid. There are WAY too many sub-forums being created (one for each manufacturer??? How many will you make, 100? And, a non-ebike one? Why???). This leads to too many of them just drying up.... and once you don't find regular new things to read in "your" section, you just end up abandoning altogether ...
Careful selection and management of all of these topics is key!

 

[nicklej]

Whilst I can understand your point, I don't think sub sections are a bad idea.It does keep this place tidy and allows people to ask specific questions about a certain bike. Some manufacturer sub forums are less "busy" but you can still read other sub forums and chirp in which is good community spirit.

Non e-bike makes sense too. People with an emtb may have a normal bike too. As a member of this forum with both of those above, it allows me to chat to like minded people although I am yet to actually check that sub-forum out.

When using this forum, I tend to visit often and read the most recent threads across the whole site rather than just threads within my manufacturer's sub forum. That way you see fresh content rather than scouting for specific content.

 

[Rob Rides EMTB]

Had some experience with forums... and this one isn't doing things right I'm afraid. There are WAY too many sub-forums being created (one for each manufacturer??? How many will you make, 100? And, a non-ebike one? Why???). This leads to too many of them just drying up.... and once you don't find regular new things to read in "your" section, you just end up abandoning altogether ...
Careful selection and management of all of these topics is key!

How would you do it Jerry?

This forum has come from nothing to 30k unique visitors a month within a year so we must be doing something right ??

 

[Albez]

This forum is far more organized than all the other ebike forums I have visited. There is one forum that has a sub forum for every bike manufacture, bar a few, now that is crazy! Think the admin team doing a great job. Great layouts and easy on the eye and no waiting for pages to load.

 

[friartuckshop]

Had some experience with forums... and this one isn't doing things right I'm afraid. There are WAY too many sub-forums being created (one for each manufacturer??? How many will you make, 100? And, a non-ebike one? Why???). This leads to too many of them just drying up.... and once you don't find regular new things to read in "your" section, you just end up abandoning altogether ...
Careful selection and management of all of these topics is key!

We need manufacturer specific subforums, because we need advice regarding that particular manufacturers bike. And it's has been helpful so far me and others who have been experiencing the same issues. I guess Jerry you can always start your own forum if you don't like the structure of this.

 

[davarello]

Don't have a problem with the sub forums, but like a lot of these things they can wander way off the original topic - I think the 19 Turbo Levo Owners thread should have been split off into motor noise/mud protection/motor covers a few weeks ago. Still a very good resource for information and well put together.

 

[Gary]

Don't have a problem with the sub forums, but like a lot of these things they can wander way off the original topic - I think the 19 Turbo Levo Owners thread should have been split off into motor noise/mud protection/motor covers a few weeks ago. Still a very good resource for information and well put together.

I assume you're a levo owner?
If you think something in a thread needs split/highlighted. You can always give something back to the forum by writing an informative/helpful separate post detailing these points.

Had some experience with forums... and this one isn't doing things right I'm afraid. There are WAY too many sub-forums being created (one for each manufacturer??? How many will you make, 100? And, a non-ebike one? Why???). This leads to too many of them just drying up.... and once you don't find regular new things to read in "your" section, you just end up abandoning altogether ...

Manufacturers sub forums will obviously be quieter than one big emtb forum encompassing all bike discussion but there is actually more need to keep manufacturer specific info/chat together and easier to find with emtb than regular mtb.

The non-e-bike forum is just funny

 

[highpeakrider]

I like it the way it is other than we don't have a FOCUS sub forum.

 

[mark.ai]

It's weird, I hardly ever go to the "Forums" tab and look at the subforum breakdown - only in order to start a new thread in the right place. Mostly I'm using "What's New" and using that to jump to the end of threads to read. Probably my next most used is the search function to look for a particular topic.

 

[steve_sordy]

The only Forum I bother with is the "New Posts" one, and I don't even have time to read all of those!

 

[Slowroller]

Same, I only look at New Posts and skim. If I had a specific issue that I wanted to see if it had already been discussed, I'd either head in to the appropriate forum and wade around, or more likely just use search.

 

[Mad Mark]

Jerry-jerry-jerry...... are you bored with this thread yet....I am

If you don't like the way it's done.....well I think you've been on enough forums to realise what you should do.
But nice to hear your thoughts.......?

 

[davarello]

I assume you're a levo owner?
If you think something in a thread needs split/highlighted. You can always give something back to the forum by writing an informative/helpful separate post detailing these points.

Fair enough.

 

[Kiwi in Wales]

No response from Jerry yet?

 

[Stumpy]

Had some experience with forums... and this one isn't doing things right I'm afraid. There are WAY too many sub-forums being created (one for each manufacturer??? How many will you make, 100? And, a non-ebike one? Why???). This leads to too many of them just drying up.... and once you don't find regular new things to read in "your" section, you just end up abandoning altogether ...
Careful selection and management of all of these topics is key!

We like it just the way it is thanks Jerry, great to know you’re looking out for us though ??

 

[R120]

The thing is we need those sub forums, simply because of the way EBikes are, in that even if they have the same motor, the way it all fits together is very manufacturer specific - having the sub forums makes it very easy to search for any threads that may be relevant to the topic you are looking for/interested in. Most users post across sub forums, e.g I have a Vitus but I pretty actively post in other manufacturers sections, I read the content that interests me, not that which is only relevant to my bike.

As others have said, I reckon 99% of users just hit the Whats New button and look through the list.

If anything some of the bigger threads encompass too much, making it hard to search for specific things.

 

[Rob Rides EMTB]

That reminds me, Focus sub forum now active:

Focus

 

[Mad Mark]

That reminds me, Focus sub forum now active:

Focus

Oh no rob not another forum section ........ my head just keeps spinning ????

 

[Dee Scee]

Oh no rob not another forum section ........ my head just keeps spinning ????

more subforums and more threads = more organized, easier to follow conversations. the poor BLEvo thread is 40 pages long! i dunno how we’d split it, but i read it all and i cannot remember half of it, but i know it does get disjointed and repetitive for paolo... the thing i’m hoping for is an app! when’s the emtb forums app coming rob????

 

[galaga187]

Reminds me of Kevin from the comedy BBC Motherland manxplaining a social media app ??