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| john new | 29 Oct 2008, 07:49 PM |
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Personally I have no problem with the existing site layout but as you want to change it then I make my comments on the proposal. I would prefer not to have the railways split by gauge but either by region or a split between Railways (Topics other than rolling stock) and Railways (Rolling stock topics) broadly as they are now. I make that suggestion for several reasons - 1) Where do miniature railway centres like Kirklees or Eastliegh with lines of different gauges fit in? 2) Browsing for intersting topics will become complicated with the originally suggested split by gauge. 3) There are lines existing that I have no idea of the gauge of therefore if I was browing for example the 15 inch guage thread I would not see items about 20 inch lines and so on. 4) Posts on many topics are not gauge specific so they will either be unseen by many readers or there will be a main post followed by multiple cross posts saying see thread in the XYZ list. 5) Our Society (SLS) own the historic locomotive Orion and I note that any posts about the loco would have to go into the other gauges thread, despite the relevance by size to the gauges just above and just below 9 1/2 inch which have their own threads. Would they look in the other threads? I also support the earlier suggestion of an Events list. Grouping the models and real construction threads side by side does make sense. Hope the above helps the webmaster evaluate options. It is a tricky issue, I use three railway related forums regularly and others with less frequency. Each has good and bad points, none has the perfect design of the topic threads but all three I regularly browze, of which this is one, are usable. Edited by john new, 29 Oct 2008, 08:03 PM.
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John V Chair & Webmaster Wessex Assoc' Mod' Rly' Clubs. http://www.wamrc-railway-modellers.org.uk/ | Web & Publicity Officer for Stephenson Locomotive Soc. - http://www.stephensonloco.org.uk | York Model Rly Show - http://www.yorkshow.org.uk | Waggonway Research Circle http://www.waggonways.fsnet.co.uk 
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