Boring board news 2015

[dem bones]

There's been little exciting Boring Board News to report in ages, but thought I should mention the results of yesterday's mini spring clean.

• We now have one entirely new dept;
  2000 and Beyond: The Horror Anthology in the new century
  
• And to make room for it, another has been entirely vanquished from cyberspace (will be very impressed if anybody even realises which one).

You don't need to tell me that Vault is way too ungainly, but I can't really see there's much can be done to clean it up [suggestions welcome]? Maybe we could merge a few boards - for example, the Hamlyn Nasties & 'when animals attack' novels probably wouldn't mind sharing a category - but that would hardly make a difference. Its such a drag the google spiders don't care for sub-boards because that would go a long way to solving the problem.

Not for the first time, our archive has been unavailable for over a month. Suddenlaunch were never the most stable hosting platform, hence our nerve-shredding migration in 2007, and could be that this time they've finally given up the ghost. This is very sad, not just for us, but the several other forums who set up home there.

[andydecker]

Good idea.

The labeling game is sometimes a bit difficult. But I rather have a lot of categories then a few with pages upon pages. If you search for stuff like, say, Peter Saxon, it is easier to browse his category then a big favorite writers category.

Of course you could argue if a thing like Favorite Authors is best served in the category British Horror Anthology - 1914 to present. But another new category can't be the answer. Sub-boards indeed would be the best answer to this, but if you can't search this, what is the point?

[dem bones]

Thanks Andreas. Its rare that anyone bothers to answer these occasional flags of distress (except to confirm that they are, indeed, boring).

Ideally, and with no disrespect to the authors, the Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, John Burke, Basil Copper & Glut-Lory sections would be sub-boards were it not for the spider problem. But even then, we'd still look bloated!

Am also toying with the idea of - eek! - reviving the readers' original fiction & artwork section, at least on a trial basis, though most certainly NOT as The Workshop Of Filthy Creations or any variation on same. It's best to make a clean break from that particular chapter in our past. This would not require an extra board. All it would take is for me to archive everything in the sealed section to date as a sub-board (it's already blocked to spiders, so no loss). Anyone has any thoughts on this, be they pro- or anti- (yeah, I was around in 2008), please fire away.

[mattofthespurs]

Shit, I'm used this place being unwieldy and user unfriendly.

It's keeps the rabble out (although I seem to have slipped through it's fingers.)

[Shrink Proof]

I've never really had any problems with navigating The Vault.

But then, I have a computer running Windows 8, after which anything, but anything is easy....

[ohthehorror]

One of the things I really liked about this place when I first came across it was the fact that it's soo expansive. I'm still finding interesting things hidden away in dark little corners. I could spend days doing nothing but browsing through this place and still not see everything. I like it, it's like a comfy old basement full of little nooks and crannies that lead to little dark passages that have more little dark passages leading off those little dark passages. Kind of fits with the pulp, horror theme I think.

[dem bones]

Jan 19, 2015 22:55:05 GMT ohthehorror said:

One of the things I really liked about this place when I first came across it was the fact that it's soo expansive. I'm still finding interesting things hidden away in dark little corners. I could spend days doing nothing but browsing through this place and still not see everything. I like it, it's like a comfy old basement full of little nooks and crannies that lead to little dark passages that have more little dark passages leading off those little dark passages. Kind of fits with the pulp, horror theme I think.

Must admit, I prefer a junkyard to a strictly regimented, *spit!* user-friendly forum, so if we're most of us content to put up with that ...

Jan 19, 2015 20:48:02 GMT Shrink Proof said:

But then, I have a computer running Windows 8, after which anything, but anything is easy....

*groan* worse than bloody W*nd*ws 7 then, I take it? First day I got current computer, spent the best part of approx 12 hours stripping it of half the pre-installed programmes and much of #7's flashy but entirely superfluous, memory-hogging bloat.

Jan 19, 2015 19:50:47 GMT mattofthespurs said:

It's keeps the rabble out

On the contrary, mr. thespurs, it's more like the other way around. Thank God!