Let's talk about how to best organize our forum. We've had many people explain why it's bloated/problematic for integration purposes, particularly in this thread. Discussing forum reorganization isn't new either, see for example here or here. There had also been ideas to have a "landing page" which may give an easier overview of all things TSP (see here).

What's undoubtedly true is that newer members are less and less likely to be familiar with the kind of forum culture that many of us had grown up with and are familiar with. The Internet now prefers tagged short-form information exchange a la Twitter, Instagram, FB etc., rather than a hierarchical system like a forum. Nonetheless, for what we do here, a forum is and remains the appropriate tool to use precisely because it offers a structured hierarchy with delineated permission sets placed on sub-hierarchies.

Our goals here should be to make the forum easier for newer members not familiar with forum culture, easier in general for anybody to navigate, and easier to moderate/administrate. This is a perfect community project where everybody from TSP can contribute in a meaningful way.

Amerion has asked about forum organization in his last poll, and I presume he'll post a link to those results here when he has collated them. These results should surely inform us. I will also reach out to gameside and invite them to testify in this thread about what they think is wrong in the forum. And of course, you (yes, you reading this right now!) should reply here, no matter if you have concrete ideas, specific goals we should strive for, or just have a specific thing that bothers you.