I suppose it's possible that people will post to the correct category...
I think most questions here are specific to a particular download and probably best on that download's page, rather than abstract forum questions.
Thinking back to AnimeTake's forums, my impressions were that most of their categories were dead most of the time, with the lone exception of archival requests to other members. Also, that it was not always easy to find the category with the info you were looking for.
To the extent that forums succeed, they fraction a community into sub-interests rather than create a unified common experience that would be the AT 'community'.
If the mission is the downloading and playing of anime, what you've got right now is probably as good as it gets. If you want to expand to things like opinions about anime, well I wouldn't be interested, but a smattering of such occasional comments in a common channel, as you have now, is more of a community experience than splintering people off into categories.
AT is uniquely about downloads. Anidb, MAL, etc. for other stuff, maybe?
I didn't mean it that way, rather improved categorization makes it easier to sort through what you want to see and what you don't. This feedback page was never supposed to be for support (or most of the other things it's currently being used for). If you're interested in answering questions, wouldn't it be easier to monitor if posts were clarified accordingly rather than buried amongst the noise?
On the other hand, I don't really want to run AT like a community, which is why it's never happened in the past, and I've kept the commenting system relatively basic. Ignoring the past week, I don't think we're quite at the point where a forum is that useful, but I'm increasingly getting the sense that the current system is slowly becoming inadequate. Again, just thoughts at this stage. And with some things, you won't know until you try...
Ignoring: Some of us keep an eye on comments to answer questions. Questions in a forum would be ignored if the forum is ignored. Otherwise, it would be one more place that has to be monitored if we want to help those who want help, wouldn't it? Just a thought.
Thanks, I just saw your reply, Sorry for the same Question a few minute ago. (an anon is constantly tiping "i see" like I did a few time to him) That want me.
Ramen, when I make an account, how would ppl know its me, because any anon can tipe the same name.
30/04/2017 11:08 — Anonymous