[2020] New forum layout and restructure.

Standby for words from the Chief.

Aloha,

So I just got done restructuring the forums to help clean them up. In the past there were FAR too many places to lose information, most of the topics were bloated with sub topics that weren't necessary TBH.

I have moved A LOT of conversations around to the applicable areas so feel free to look around the new layout, this is NOT a huge change, in fact only a couple subtopics were moved.

And some conversations that were in some subtopics where removed as they were over 6 mo old and had no activity (which is in our forum guidelines the standard for considered necro if I were to keep them live.)

The permissions for the "General Discussions" section have been updated and Polls are allowed to be posted in there now. Having a separate section for polls meant that did not get much traction, and looking back 6 mo there was only 1 poll that had more than 30 responses. Keep in mind however, when posting a poll that for the most part feedback from these is not particularly good as the OP usually writes them to be quite discriminate towards their own opinions, so if you post a poll, please try to make the answers as unbiased as possible.

Some other changes like the Clan sections of the forums have been cleaned up, all general discussions about clans just occurs in "Clan Hub" or our Volunteer programs have been merged into one topic case in point.

There will be some growing pains I am sure but the Volunteer Moderators and myself will be combing through the old material over the next week and moving it around.

Mahalo,

-Hapa

That is all.

I moved ALL active threads that have had responses in the past month and posts that were fresh up to almost 6 months back into active topics currently.

-Hapa

Only posts that are over 6 mo in the subtopics or topics that were removed will not be seen. That being said, in 6 mo, A LOT can change, so if you're looking for information it's better to post something new. We also consider replies to posts 6mo or older as "necroing" so ya.

See the OP.

-Hapa

You can post general conversations about clans just under "Clan Hub" itself. I didn't see a point having a general discussion under the clan hub topic but not have you guys be able to post in the clan hub itself.

-Hapa

Older threads are not deleted currently for you they are just hidden and we are sifting through topics and if something is still applicable we will move material (which I have been doing for days).

Considering large chunks of this forum (well over half) were NOT getting traffic due to the fact the forums were far too bloated with subtopics making material hard to find, this was necessary.

As stated:

-Hapa

So the post that you are talking about has had NO responses or engagements in over a year and was actually auto archived WELL before I did this restructuring due to it being part of a news article that was posted in FEB of 2019.

The best thing would be to start a new topic.

-Hapa