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1. Minimize some areas from view by default (Security, Justice, TSP History, Archives).

2 Merge some areas together
a. Opinions into Off Topic
b. History into Archives
c. Market Street goes into Enter if You Dare
d. Affairs goes into Regional News
e. Citizenship Request goes into New to The Forums

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3. Also I think the depressing graph should go into a MoS forum and off the homepage, and the poll of the week too since it just sits there.

We can have a banner contest or something to replace them, maybe change the banner every month or every season? Or every event, like an election? Anyway, it can be a lot nicer and more interesting.

4. Some kind of Super Archive like they have in TRR, maybe after a set number of days it is automatically archived (if possible) or hidden from view like I've seen on some forums (it only shows topics active in the past 30 days by default).

5. Some better notification system when a PM is received.

6. People complain about the skin but I actually like it for one

Mostly it just needs to be more simple, less cluttered, and more new player friendly. Also would an auto-PM be possible when a new nation registers so we could have the welcome message idea made automatic?

Sorry, took a while to respond:

1: I don't like to hide things from view unless necessary for security reasons, because people will miss it, and feel left out

2: Yeah, some things should be merged, although I do not agree with all of your suggestions. Market street shall not be merged with Enter if you dare. No matter what the new structure is, the subforum "enter if you dare" will remain for forum games and general spam only.

As I said before somewhere, I prefer a restructuring in a user-group oriented way: things mostly relevant for new users, things mostly relevant for everyone, things mostly relevant for citizens and things mostly relevant for government.

3. The graph can go elsewhere, although I don't know what's depressing about it. If you have a better suggestion for something up there, feel free to speak. Moving the poll of the week is not a good idea, IMO. It's one of the things that's attracting people, considering that the response is uisually higher than the amount of regular posters. The reason that it just "sits" there, is that after running it for a couple of years I have run out of poll questions. List me a number of questions (answers not necessary, just questions), or even better, start a poll once a week, and I'll be quite happy to export it to the front page.

4. Topics hidden after 30 days is by default activated on all forums except where it caused to much trouble. I don't like things as automatic archiving as you lose a bit of control on what's going on on the forum. Archiving can be done either way, we used to have all archives in the history section, recently part of that was changed to archive subforums in every section. Both have their merits and demerits.

5. What do you mean with better? What do you want? Please don't state only what's wrong, but also how you like to see it instead, that's much more helpful.

6. Excellent

7. First of all I don't know how this can be done, and secondly an automated welcome message is quite the opposite from inviting, isn't it?

Further I will split off the discussion about zetaboard conversion because it has nothing to do with this. No matter how cool and shiny zetaboards is, if it is structured the same way as this forum within a month the same complaints will come up.