more subforums..
hey guys..
i want to suggest implementing more subforums to get a little bit more structure in the DJTT forums..as far as i know this isnt really hard to do..
was thinking about some forums like:
mapping questions
buy/sell stuff
offtopic
…
and some others i just forgot..
just found this thread Consolidate all forums into one big one? but i think it’s kinda outdated.. 
what do you think about that?
cheers..
wp
Personally, I think we should just organize differently. I don’t think we need an Off Topic forum, cause we kinda just use the General Discussion for it. I think we need to organize where questions go, though, because General Discussion is getting really cluttered.
If we had a Controller Mapping Section (with different forums for questions and actual mappings); A Controllers section (with a forum for controller specific questions, a forum for reviews); A Modification section (with a forum for Modification questions, and one for completed mods); A Mixes section (left as is, but possibly split into Mixes and Production); a DJTT section (pretty much as is, but including the Product Support Forum); and a General Discussion forum which I think we could encompass with Buy/Sell and Offtopic stuff, without having different forums for it.
I think it would streamline and clear up a LOT of confusion people are having around here, and make everything more manageable without having too many forums to navigate through.
The only thing I would say though, is that if we did have all these subforums, I would almost be afraid that most questions wouldn’t be answered. Obviously, the General Discussion forum gets the most use, and therefore most views. I don’t know, I guess I just feel like most people wouldn’t comb through a whole bunch of subforums.
Just my opinion.
I think a questions/tutorial subforum would be a good motivator for helping people. I think it should stay with the TT spirit and be technical instead of turning into the over generic “I’ve searched the entire internet but cannot find which setup I should by for mixing goth-death metal-house” threads that have overpowered the other forums.
It really is a double edged sword; Lambox, I agree with you that the subforums could end up leaving many people with unanswered questions, but I have begun to notice myself that there’s been a big influx of posters which has resulted in a more confusing and hard to follow General Discussion board.
So it’s really a +1 from me for some more subforums.
@dvl: like your idea..
@lambox: i’m actually always hitting the “new posts” button, to get all the updated stuff since my last visit.. it’s the easiest way to keep track of new posts, so questions won’t be overread..
I think we need to be careful, though. We are a small forum, and we want to avoid TOO much specialized forums to keep things easy and accessible. But we definitely need a better organization system to prevent any of us (especially Bento) from needing to consistently and constantly move posts around cause they are all wrong.
+1
DJTTwiki maybe? I don’t know if there is enough contributers vs. lurkers, but it could be organized to answer the silly things. Hopefully reducing the amount of “will my Tandy computer work with Ableton” and “HELP!!! My computer is on fire, but sound isn’t coming out of the speakers” questions that can be answered really easily by using google and a few minutes. More forward thinking and progression, than backwards, but still retain the friendly chit chat and resourse sharing that is pretty unique to this site.
That’s been something I’ve really dreaded this forum becoming, and I think the community we’ve built has prevented it from morphing into “These are the basics of DJing with computers”. I just hope we can keep that going.
I think most people are guilty of asking something that has already been asked, though. I’ve absolutely done it. Do you hit the search button before every single time you make a thread? I don’t. Not because I don’t care or something, I just don’t do it all the time.
I believe that even if there was a DJTT wiki, most people probably wouldn’t search it before posting.
Sorry for the double post.
But I also think that if we were to have more subforums, there should be a whole one for suggestion threads. Maybe even just a handful of stickies that people could post in… “Suggest some [house/dnb/dubstep/etc.]”
What I would like to see is more expansion on the likes of the front page tutorials and such. What brought me to DJTT in the first place is that I am a seasoned DJ and wanted a place to go for more advanced ideas/discussion. Not to say that DJTT can’t be a place for beginners as well. But there really isn’t a community anywhere else where there is such a collaboration of experts in the Dj/Controllerism scene. Let alone well behaved and considerate at that! 
@Lambox Guilty as well. It’s a common issue with forums because the main place to post will always have blind posters, can’t be avoided.
@Dvls completely agree
But the upside is that we could then atleast give them an RTFM link easily to a single coherent answer. Right now you have to search yourself and then you come up with various threads that are pages long that each provide part of the answer.
The problem with creating too many sub forums is that alot of questions just dont get answered. We are really cautious about opening up new sections on the forum - if anyone noticed we had a tutorial section like suggested earlier in this thead. Except that no body was posting in it so we got rid of it again.
Also when people make posts in the other parts of the forums they dont have a high as a chance as when they are being asked in the General Forum.
Im all for an OT section, but I only ever use the New Posts link any way.
Im not sure why people dont do this any way - Kaon you got an answer for that yet? lol
+1 !
I don’t use it because I don’t always want to have to sift through posts in the other forums that I have no input on whatsoever. At that, I like to have some sort of organization to my searching through the forum when I log in.
Not everyone (at least, I don’t) jumps to the New Post Link. I prefer my forums to be organized to make my sorting easier. I guess it’s a personal preference thing in the end, but still, I hate using the New Post link.
+1 all i ever press, and most the time way too many times at my boring ass job, lol
BTW midifidler, completely right about the Zero. Thanks bro!
The problem is by by having to many sub-forums alot of posts dont get the attention they should - which makes bento a sad panda