Some Ideas:
Sub threads and/or categories (in the
Creative Unit Aesthetics thread for example, several categories which could be one for each culture; in each culture - historical inspiration, sketches, BL models, models in general, 3d, 2d, props...) it's like the spoilers but instead of them appearing as you scroll down, the categories would be horizontal on the top of the screen, and when you hover with the mouse or click, sub categories would appear. It's far more efficient to search this way.
Sub threads/categories could also be people posting a new thread under a more general topic pinned for visibility - e.g.: SP Siege issues is a thread in The keep - SP, sub threads/categories could be - attacking issues; defending issues; inside the attacking issues would be - ramps issues, ladders issues, wall issues, AI issues...
The ideas above are a good way to organize the forum and avoid people repeating the same issues over and over in different threads. By concentrating and organizing the information, the community could then move to provide some more depth to discussion
Art sections threads for scenes, ui, troops, campaign art… and other (sub) art divisions like 3d characters, 2d concept art, props… could be made by TW personal. This way you could have a standardization or blueprint for this art sections in more efficient ways that devs, modders, members and guests could use.
I was considering creating a similar thread to
Creative Unit Aesthetics, by
@Piconi but for UI, having the suggestions above would make our lives a lot easier.
Another concept would be
pinned comments, they would be pinned by the OP and/or by a moderator or developer, they could appear immediately after the OP post but would also appear in the position it was originally posted to maintain the conversation flow.
The
reaction score and
best answers seem underused, they don't really add something special and functional, afaik. If this were more used and used under certain objective parameters it could be a good way to incentivize people to post certain things which developers may find useful or whatever the goal or parameter for receiving these might be.
Adding a
gallery with photos and media for each thread like Messenger or Skype could be a good addition, by having this in thread like the
Creative Unit Aesthetics you could just scroll through all the images to get down to what really matters, other example would be in the
What are you listening to right now? Mark V thread, you would quickly have a playlist at your disposal.
Infinite scroll – you would scroll indefinitely in threads (until the messages end). No need to click the next page. Also could apply to scroll threads in the main forum pages.
A
quick chat for both members and possibly guests, where people ask general questions like having some issue and what to do, immediately someone would know (or not) instead of creating a thread just for that answer;
FAQ (frequently asked questions) concept should apply to FPT (
frequently posted threads). Having this and some dev post a decisive answer to the questions that constantly repeat in threads would be much appreciated. (The categories/sub threads concept would also tackle this problem)