Possible Community Showcase simplification

[Kyng]

One section of the board that's been quite popular lately is the Community Showcase. Within this section of the board, there are three sub-forums:

• Shops
  
• Your Creative Work
  
• Your Sites and Forums

The thing is... while each of these sub-forums is fine, the main parent forum really isn't serving any purpose right now Here's a complete list of the topics in there:


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That's a grand total of five topics - four of which are about people's possessions, and one of which is a request. That's really not enough to justify taking up an entire section of the board - and so, I propose re-homing these topics and streamlining the layout of this section, as follows:

1. The four topics about people's possessions should go into Diaries and Personal. That forum already contains several topics about people's possessions and collections (for example, Nilla's TLK Collection and Shadow Seesaw's BTS Merchandise) - and, these four topics would sit very nicely alongside those ones.
   
   
2. Move the signature request into Shops, and re-name that section to "Shops and Requests". I think it would fit in naturally with the shops - because, in both cases, you're asking another member to make something for you (usually in return for CCs or some other remuneration). Alternatively, we could just leave Shops as-is, and move it into Your Creative Work, since it is a request for creative work .
   
   
3. Just put the creative works in the main "Community Showcase" forum, instead of having them in a sub-forum. After all, showing off your creative work is the primary purpose of the Community Showcase, and it's where the majority of the activity in that part of the board is. In my opinion, putting them in a separate sub-forum is just an unnecessary extra step which adds no organisational value (in fact, it's just a hold-over from when we had separate 'art' and 'writing' sub-forums, before we turned those into prefixes!)

So, if we went ahead with this, we'd have a "Community Showcase" containing all the creative works - and then, inside this, we'd have two sub-forums for "Shops and Requests" and "Your Sites and Forums". I think that sounds a lot tidier and more elegant than what we have now .

What are your thoughts?

[Mercury]

Makes perfect sense Kyng. 

[Shiny Star]

I agree with these changes too. Makes it slightly less cluttered.

[Kyng]

Thanks !

If there's nothing further to add, then I intend to make these changes tomorrow.

[Detective Osprey]

I agree with these changes too. Makes it slightly less cluttered.

I agree. I’m not sure what else to add. 

hope that helps

[Kyng]

Since there doesn't seem to be a whole lot more to add to this, I'll go ahead and do it now.

Thanks, everyone !