Individual Forums and how to use them

Thanks.

I'd been behind on noticing some good posts.

Yeah, that's why I posted this. It's hard to "miss" those forums as they're down on the main page, but if we start using them for the topics, there's a lot of specific info that will help.

Say someone needs to talk "Brisket" Post it there and also review the links there, and the info might be available.

Could we set one up for pics??? I love to read the great stories behind everyones Q, but seein there pictures is like takin me right to there back yard.....just a thought

Yep,Smokin'.

My earlier post, asking for suggestions to help our new folks find the volumes that are written here,hasn't taken off.

We hate to seem rude by saying"go to FIND at page top,input topic into all forums,read Smokin's 101,read the best of forum,and we'll try to pick up any specific that is left".

Maybe a Banner across the top of the page,like a large ad?

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Originally posted by Wurts-Bagel:
Could we set one up for pics??? I love to read the great stories behind everyones Q, but seein there pictures is like takin me right to there back yard.....just a thought

Photos are a challenge for most posters it seems. I probably wouldn't add a photo only forum for a couple of reasons.

You'd lose the subject concept here of all Brisket together, then you'd have to go through multiple forums for brisket info.

Photos really aren't that well used here. Lots of people have a hard time with the photo album feature and others post links to other Photo servers, but after a year or two those links disappear.

Look through the archives, you'll see lots of broken links.

Great job Smokin!! Appreciate all you do and the great help you always are.

Smokin... many of the links to the older CS site are broken as well. Do a FIND for Cowboy Candy. 2 links show and 1 has the CS link in it that doesnt work. Just 1 example. But I DO like what you have made this new forum. Keep up the most excellent work!!

bob

Yeah, there are TONS of those broken links. Problem when we upgrade to this version, they couldn't fix the code in the posts that pointed to the old forum and as it was the same company. We were NOT happy they couldn't fix that.

The posts they they "linked" to are still here, just different links now. Sorry.

As I've worked on posts, move them, I try to fix those or just delete them.

I'm working that email you sent me too, just been real busy.

Were those forums archive only the other day? If they were it makes sense to open them up instead of looking in three or more different forums for one topic.

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Originally posted by tarpon:
Were those forums archive only the other day? If they were it makes sense to open them up instead of looking in three or more different forums for one topic.

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Not sure what you're saying, they always been open, but they were labeled as "archive" so some people didn't use them. I just took the text "archive" off of them.

The one topic concept has been there just not used, but butts, briskets, ribs are our top topics, so hopefully they'll be used more now.