[DragoonKain]

Howdy folks,

I am here today to discuss some possible changes with all of you. These changes would greatly change the way the forums are structured. The current architecture is a bit messy, and a bit convoluted for the small number of members we currently occupy. Thus, I would like to vastly trim down the number of forums and subforums we currently have.

Here are some proposed changes:

* Let's not have tons of "Forums" such as "Final Fantasy Net" "The Games" "World Events" etc. Let's get one cohesive forum structure that's not broken up.

* Question: Can we get rid of the Kingdom Hearts 3 area of our forums? We already have a full dedicated forum for Kingdom Hearts 3 (kingdomhearts3.org), why do we need that replicated? If you can come up with something intelligent to defend this, I'll find a way to work it in to the new structure.

* There is a LOT (and I mean a lot) of administrative cleanup to do on my part. There are like seven godzillion usergroups and such from where we inproperly added usergroups to give people user titles and so on. I'll be cleaning that up, and I would expect some errors to occur along the way (like a lost usertitle or two).

I would like to do the structure something like the following (not a final version):

-General Forum
-> General Chat
-> Web Families
-> Personal Forum
-> Forum Games
-> Political Debate / World News
-> Art & Entertainment
-> RPG
-> Introductions

-Forum Issues
-> Site Suggestions
-> Staff Openings

-Final Fantasy (General FF chat)
-> The Classics (FF1-FF6)
-> The PS1 Era (FF7-FF9)
-> The Current Era (FFX-FF13)
-> Other Topics (FF Universe Games, Music, Movies)

-Other Games



If you want to see how a layout like this looks in practice, go check out kingdomhearts3.org. It's a bit cleaner, and the purpose is that you don't have to click too far to get where you need to go. I tend to dislike doing sub-subforums, but I can do them where necessary. Please give some feedback on the proposed changes. Other general suggestions are also welcomed at this time.

Thanks.

-Kain