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*NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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*NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby Clariman » November 8th, 2016, 5:34 pm

Here is a quick view of the new boards and board structure that we hope to implement tonight. Thanks for all your suggestions. We are going to implement the vast majority of those suggestions: some as new boards, some as merged boards (where you can create more specific topics) and maybe some as Sub-Forums. Some we will do slightly differently or with a different name. For example, we don't plan to have a board called LOST but will provide boards for proper, polite debate. Some we won't implement - at least not just now, but will reconsider if there is demand.

Note that some boards will move to being under different headings. We are taking NOTHING away that we already have.

We have tried to strike a balance between meeting the demand for new boards, while not overcrowding the screen. Remember that you can collapse any group, so if you have no interest in some groups just collapse them to remove the detailed list.

Hope this suits. I am sure you will all have plenty of feedback and ideas which we will be pleased to hear. Thanks for your patience.
Clariman

1. Lemon Lounge
a. Biscuit Bar
b. Beerpig’s Snug
c. Lemon Socials (covering anywhere in the UK)
d. The Jokes on us (Jokers’ Corner)
e. Testing

2. Lemon-Aid (Help from other Fools)
a. Legal Issues (including Wills & Probate)
b. Does Anyone Know
c. Computers, TVs & Phones
d. Building & DIY
e. Comfort Café
f. Running a Business

3. Managing your Finances
a. Dealing with Debt
b. Bank Accounts & ISAs
c. Financial Software
d. Living Below Your Means
e. Pensions
  • Topic already there for SIPPs but could be a SubForum
f. Mortgages
g. Credit Cards and Loans
  • Stoozing subforum
h. Taxes – Practical Issues
i. Your Tomorrow Starts Today

4. Investors’ Roundtable
a. Trading my way to a million
b. High Yield – Practical
c. High Yield – Strategies
d. Investment Strategies
  • SubForum – Investing for Income
e. Venture Capital Trusts
f. Retirement Investing (including Early Retirement & Financial Independence)
g. Property Discussions
h. Gilts and Bonds
i. Technical Analysis
j. Investment and Unit Trusts
k. Passive Investing (Index Funds, ETFs & Trackers)
l. Portfolio Management

5. Sectors & General Shares
a. Share Ideas
b. Brokers and Share Dealings
c. Banking Sector
d. Oil & Gas Companies
e. Mining & Metals

6. Travel Lounge
a. London Lovers
b. Around the UK
c. Airport Lounge – Holiday Ideas & Foreign Travel
d. Transportation – cars, driving, motorbikes and trains

7. Interests - Culture, Leisure , Food and Nature
a. The Sports Bar (all sports)
b. Food & Drink
c. Recipes & Cooking
d. The Natural World (wildlife, gardening, environment, Rural living)
e. Pets and Vets
f. Music
g. Theatre, TV and Film (including Reality TV)

8. Polite Debate & Discussion
a. Politics
b. The Economy (including Budgets)
c. Religion & Philosophy
d. Other Polite Discussions

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby poundcoin » November 8th, 2016, 5:41 pm

Still would have liked a cars or motoring board ( not that I was that active there but an avid lurker !)

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby BarrenWuffett » November 8th, 2016, 5:44 pm

Yep, looking good to me and covers my earlier requests...many thanks.

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby PinkDalek » November 8th, 2016, 5:45 pm

poundcoin wrote:Still would have liked a cars or motoring board ( not that I was that active there but an avid lurker !)


6d. Transportation – cars, driving, motorbikes and trains should cover it.

PD

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby k333 » November 8th, 2016, 5:52 pm

C (& S)

Looks great. It really does help sometimes with computer stuff to throw away the past and reconfigure, which is what you've done. But I am still amazed at how fast the whole process has been ( as previously mentioned)!!

- K

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby Infrasonic » November 8th, 2016, 5:53 pm

Looking good.

Unless traffic volume dictate otherwise I think it would be preferable to keep sub-forums to an absolute minimum, TMF got rather unwieldy with so many boards that eventually became zombied.

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby Clariman » November 8th, 2016, 6:05 pm

Here are my explanations and comments on boards not implemented or done differently than you might expect. I have also included some suggestions about how we could accommodate discussions on these topics. Note that we are not refusing to do these - simply trying to strike a balance between demand and simplicity. It can all be changed if it doesn't strike the right balance :)

Only Requested by one person
  • Bert's Investors' Sanctuary - also a personal board and Bert not here. Create as a Topic under Investing Strategy?
  • Shorting - Topic under Investing Strategy?
  • Small Caps - Topic somewhere appropriate?
  • Value Shares - Topic somewhere appropriate?
  • PaulyPilot's Pub - also a personal board and owner not here. Create as a Topic under Investing Strategy?
  • A Fool and His Money - Topic sunder Investing Strategy?
  • International ExPat investors - Topic under Investment Strategy?
  • Peer to Peer Lending - Topic somewhere appropriate?
  • Curiosity Corner - Topic somewhere appropriate?
  • Behavioural Psychology - Topic somewhere appropriate?
  • Sports Betting - Topic somewhere appropriate?
  • KingKongKatastrophe Korner - also a personal board and owner not here. Create as a Topic under Investing Strategy?

Covered by other or merged boards
  • Investment for Income - subforum of Investment Strategies
  • SIPPs- Topic on Pension
  • Early Retirement/Financial Independence - Discuss as topics on Retirement Investing (can rename board if makes it clearer)
  • ISAs - added to Banking board - name change to reflect
  • Current Accounts- covered by Banking Board
  • Reality TV - please use new Theatre, TV and Film board
  • Football Fools - please use Sports Bar - can create a subforum in the future if needed
  • Rugby - please use Sports Bar - can create a subforum in the future if needed
  • Wills & Probate - included in renamed Legal Issues board
  • Beer Drinking - covered by Food and Drink - create Beer Topic(s)
  • Wine - covered by Food and Drink - create Wine Topic(s)
  • Gardening - covered under new board The Natural World
  • Wildlife- covered under new board The Natural World
  • Environment - covered under new board The Natural World
  • Rural Living - covered under new board The Natural World
  • Cars - covered under new board Transportation (in Travel Lounge Group)
  • Motorbikes - covered under new board Transportation (in Travel Lounge Group)
  • Steam Trains (and modern) - covered under new board Transportation (in Travel Lounge Group)
  • Holiday Ideas - incorporated into renamed board - "Airport Lounge – Holiday Ideas & Foreign Travel"
  • LOST - not implemented as such but the Polite Debate & Discussion boards give plenty of opportunity for serious discussion
  • LOOTP - to be honest, I don't GET LOOTP. It is a very TMF thing - for bagging round numbers and things like that? I'm not sure how that translates to here? Comments appreciated.

Hope I haven't misses any out!

Clariman

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby Clariman » November 8th, 2016, 6:07 pm

poundcoin wrote:Still would have liked a cars or motoring board ( not that I was that active there but an avid lurker !)

See post above - you've got somewhere to post about cars and motoring. If the volume of posts means we need a separate board then we can do that.

KEEP CALM
AND
CARRY ON
POSTING

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby k333 » November 8th, 2016, 6:11 pm

poundcoin wrote:Still would have liked a cars or motoring board ( not that I was that active there but an avid lurker !)


Yes. Hard to explain why, but somehow Cars and Driving just had the right sound about it, as did HWTBC. Transportation does not tick a box in my brain! Ah well ....

- K

PS In the US, HWTBC has turned into HWTSC. Turning blasted to stupid has somehow ruined the whole thing :)

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby nigelpm » November 8th, 2016, 6:35 pm

very quick one - rather than "Oil & Gas Companies"

why not have "Energy and commodities"

That way discussion around all energy companies and oil price movements (old Old & Gas Markets on TMF) are catered for.

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby Degsy67 » November 8th, 2016, 6:37 pm

You may want to consider the name of the 'Bank Accounts & ISAs' board. Would 'Bank Accounts & Cash ISAs' be more appropriate to avoid any discussion of wrapping equities and bond funds in an Investment ISA? Do you want to allow discussion of Lifetime ISAs and Innovative Finance ISAs (P2P Lending) in this forum or try to direct posters elsewhere? This forum could probably usefully have a sticky post to direct discussion on these different types of ISA to the right board.

Just a thought.

Degsy

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby kiloran » November 8th, 2016, 6:53 pm

Clariman wrote:Here is a quick view of the new boards and board structure that we hope to implement tonight.

6. Travel Lounge
a. London Lovers
b. Around the UK
c. Airport Lounge – Holiday Ideas & Foreign Travel
d. Transportation – cars, driving, motorbikes and trains

7. Interests - Culture, Leisure , Food and Nature
a. The Sports Bar (all sports)
b. Food & Drink
c. Recipes & Cooking
d. The Natural World (wildlife, gardening, environment, Rural living)
e. Pets and Vets
f. Music
g. Theatre, TV and Film (including Reality TV)


Not sure Transportation really fits in the Travel Lounge. Travel Lounge, to me, is all about holidays and related travel issues.
On TMF, I saw the Cars and Driving, Cycling etc forums being discussed more from an Interest and Leisure perspective, so I would move the new board to 7. Interests.

--kiloran

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby DiamondEcho » November 8th, 2016, 7:09 pm

Great stuff, it's still 'day-1'. Let's focus on the core structure, and then build it out over coming days and weeks.

To mods: On the flip-side, I don't think people suggesting adding boards are expecting them to be added 'NOW', they just want them in due course, whilst they have them in mind, mentally queueing them, to be added into the in-tray for as and when.
Anyway, my take is this forum is *firmly* leaving port in the right direction. So good luck and rest well to the admins :)

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby Breelander » November 8th, 2016, 7:26 pm

Clariman wrote:Here are my explanations and comments on boards not implemented...

Covered by other or merged boards
- Motorbikes - covered under new board Transportation (in Travel Lounge Group)
pyad may want to frequent that one :)

- LOOTP - to be honest, I don't GET LOOTP. It is a very TMF thing - for bagging round numbers and things like that? I'm not sure how that translates to here? Comments appreciated.
LoOTP (get the capitalisation right!) was a sort of 'Jokers' Corner' frequented by those with a very 'Pyhtonesque' (some would say warped) sense of humour. ( as a LoOTPian, can I just take this opportunity to say Bink! Tugboat! We need more Polls! Widdy! )

And no board for the TAers? I'm sure I've already seen some requests...

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby Clariman » November 8th, 2016, 7:39 pm

Breelander wrote:
Clariman wrote:Here are my explanations and comments on boards not implemented...

Covered by other or merged boards
- Motorbikes - covered under new board Transportation (in Travel Lounge Group)
pyad may want to frequent that one :)

- LOOTP - to be honest, I don't GET LOOTP. It is a very TMF thing - for bagging round numbers and things like that? I'm not sure how that translates to here? Comments appreciated.
LoOTP (get the capitalisation right!) was a sort of 'Jokers' Corner' frequented by those with a very 'Pyhtonesque' (some would say warped) sense of humour. ( as a LoOTPian, can I just take this opportunity to say Bink! Tugboat! We need more Polls! Widdy! )

And no board for the TAers? I'm sure I've already seen some requests...


Err thanks for the clear explanation of LoOTP. Would that sort of discussion work as topics on the jokers one.

Technical Analysis is there.

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby NomoneyNohoney » November 8th, 2016, 7:43 pm

As Kiloran said, "not sure Transportation really fits in the Travel Lounge. Travel Lounge, to me, is all about holidays and related travel issues.
On TMF, I saw the Cars and Driving, Cycling etc forums being discussed more from an Interest and Leisure perspective, so I would move the new board to 7. Interests."

Rather than just say "Plus 1", I've quoted the whole thing to emphasise the point.

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby Wizard » November 8th, 2016, 7:47 pm

I am sure there are things that some would do differently, but I think if everyone just tries to embrace the new they will find a home for any subject.

For the umpteenth time, thank you for your work on this.

Terry.

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby GN100 » November 8th, 2016, 7:58 pm

I made a request for a Photography Board as an e mail to a mod. Maybe not the right way to do it so duplicating here.

GN

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby Midsmartin » November 8th, 2016, 7:58 pm

I thought I'd posted this, but I can't see it, so maybe not!

My humble suggestions would be:

1) Some sort of science-related board
2) Maybe an 'arts' board that could encompass old boards including music, radio, tv stuff etc.

But overall, I am impressed and pleased at the speed this site is getting off the ground. Thank you all!

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Re: *NEW* Boards and structure being implemented

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Postby k333 » November 8th, 2016, 8:00 pm

<<Still would have liked a cars or motoring board ( not that I was that active there but an avid lurker !)??

Me too. C&D just seemed the right way to descibe the list.

= K


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