Over the years, my constant changes to the board layout have calmed down somewhat: indeed, the last one was the replacement of 'Shopping' with 'Mental Health', and that was almost five months ago now . However, there are a couple of changes that I think I can make - which are as follows:
1. Merge "Jokes" with "Internet Humour", to create "Jokes and Internet Humour"
This was actually part of my original plan from early 2020: I was going to just change the name of "Funny and Unusual Stuff" to "Jokes and Internet Humour". However, I eventually decided to split the jokes from the internet humour, because the jokes and the internet humour have little to do with one another, besides both being funny (and, while "Jokes" and "Internet Humour" would both start out very small, I thought they both had good potential for growth).
The thing is, it's been almost two years now... and, the "Internet Humour" board really hasn't taken off like I thought it would. It just can't compete with "Stage and Screen" or "Music and Audio" - and it's even smaller than "Reading", which itself is quite a small sub-forum. So, I think it's time to give up on having "Jokes" and "Internet Humour" as separate forums, and return to what was my original plan: a single "Jokes and Internet Humour" sub-forum in General Chat. (A couple of topics would move out of this; for example, the topics about memes being sold as NFTs would go into Technology and Computers, since I think those are serious topics about tech, rather than funny topics about memes. But most of the others would stay)
2. Add a sub-forum to General Chat, for the "What does this make you think of?" threads
About a year and a half ago, I made a thread about "Who does the name 'Ronald' make you think of?". It was decently popular, so I made a few more threads like it. And, these have been reasonably successful too - so, it's likely that we're going to get more of them (indeed, I already have ideas for a couple more). However, they do tend to get buried very quickly under all the "What did you do today?" type threads, and they aren't natural bedfellows with those threads to begin with. Therefore, it might be better to give them their own dedicated sub-forum, where they no longer have to compete with those other threads .
So, should I go ahead with either of these?
1. Merge "Jokes" with "Internet Humour", to create "Jokes and Internet Humour"
This was actually part of my original plan from early 2020: I was going to just change the name of "Funny and Unusual Stuff" to "Jokes and Internet Humour". However, I eventually decided to split the jokes from the internet humour, because the jokes and the internet humour have little to do with one another, besides both being funny (and, while "Jokes" and "Internet Humour" would both start out very small, I thought they both had good potential for growth).
The thing is, it's been almost two years now... and, the "Internet Humour" board really hasn't taken off like I thought it would. It just can't compete with "Stage and Screen" or "Music and Audio" - and it's even smaller than "Reading", which itself is quite a small sub-forum. So, I think it's time to give up on having "Jokes" and "Internet Humour" as separate forums, and return to what was my original plan: a single "Jokes and Internet Humour" sub-forum in General Chat. (A couple of topics would move out of this; for example, the topics about memes being sold as NFTs would go into Technology and Computers, since I think those are serious topics about tech, rather than funny topics about memes. But most of the others would stay)
2. Add a sub-forum to General Chat, for the "What does this make you think of?" threads
About a year and a half ago, I made a thread about "Who does the name 'Ronald' make you think of?". It was decently popular, so I made a few more threads like it. And, these have been reasonably successful too - so, it's likely that we're going to get more of them (indeed, I already have ideas for a couple more). However, they do tend to get buried very quickly under all the "What did you do today?" type threads, and they aren't natural bedfellows with those threads to begin with. Therefore, it might be better to give them their own dedicated sub-forum, where they no longer have to compete with those other threads .
So, should I go ahead with either of these?
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