can we have them back please

These threads? (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2599)

Isn't it painfully, painfully obvious?

Obviously people don't like change.

Obviously.

indeed. my only regret is we didn't do this years ago... i reckon places like aberdeen and edinburgh would have raging post counts too.

Isn't it painfully, painfully obvious?

Maybe. Perhaps, however, a more pertinent question might be "where is all the non-Glasgow development?". It's awful quiet in the rest of Scotland, isn't it?

We've got threads last responded to in 2006 on the first page of the Scotland forum. Ridiculous.

Maybe. Perhaps, however, a more pertinent question might be "where is all the non-Glasgow development?". It's awful quiet in the rest of Scotland, isn't it?

We've got threads last responded to in 2006 on the first page of the Scotland forum. Ridiculous.

To be fair, the Glasgow forum is extremely quiet too and it isn't a good time to be comparing developments anywhere in Scotland to the volume we saw a few years ago.

A small issue of the biggest recession in 80 years along with cut backs in all Government spending means we'll be all quieter for a while.

To be fair, the Glasgow forum is extremely quiet too and it isn't a good time to be comparing developments anywhere in Scotland to the volume we saw a few years ago.

A small issue of the biggest recession in 80 years along with cut backs in all Government spending means we'll be all quieter for a while.

It's all relative though, isn't it?

The Glasgow forum seems to have many, many times the amount of activity of the rest of Scotland. Given that around half of Scotland live in the Glasgow area, I guess that isn't very surprising.

well given the fact that threads for the rest of scotland would get posted on less so end up further down the forum on the second page, or tenth page, and then people woulnd't respond because they didn't even know they existed is this surprising?

well given the fact that threads for the rest of scotland would get posted on less so end up further down the forum on the second page, or tenth page, and then people woulnd't respond because they didn't even know they existed is this surprising?

I await with bated breath the ensuing torrent of non-Glasgow based architectural and development discussion.

The currently dead, stale appearance of the Scotland forum would put off a lot of visitors to the Glasgow forum. As is very often the case, they might assume Glasgow is as lifeless as the rest of Scotland.

or it might not, and it might work as successfully as the other 2500+ forums on ssc once it has been in existence a while and has been established.

...and good luck to the Scotland forum. I hope the forum becomes a veritable hive of activity and both of the people from outside Glasgow in Scotland have a great forum to use for many years to come.

...and good luck to the Scotland forum. I hope the forum becomes a veritable hive of activity and both of the people from outside Glasgow in Scotland have a great forum to use for many years to come.

:cheers:

I still think it makes much more sense to reverse the Glasgow and Scotland forums. I have discovered alot of sub forums that are actually much more bustling than the actual forum. They are very easy to miss.

It still doesn't make sense to do that though. Anyone looking for Glasgow developments will see the Scottish forum and check in there. The same cannot be said for the same situation in reverse.

My 'other' forum is the Queensland forum as I live there.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=198

A compromise for Scotland could be a format similar to there. The Queensland forum is really a forum for Brisbane. Beneath that is a forum for the Gold Coast, another one for Regional Queensland (i.e. everywhere else) plus a general chat forum.

So Scotland's structure could be:

Top level: Scottish architecture forum (for Glasgow + possibly Edinburgh threads).

2nd level: Regional Scotland (for everywhere else)

2nd level: Scottish Skybar (for chat about off-topic things like T in the Park)

Or something along those lines. Just an idea.

That's an idea, however we have nowhere near enough posts to qualify our own skybar in the form of a forum - the thread suffices in this respect in my opinion. I think the best thing to do would be to create a new skybar for the Scottish Forum (in the form of a thread), retain the Glasgow skybar and simply merge my T in the Park thread with the Scottish Skybar.

It still doesn't make sense to do that though. Anyone looking for Glasgow developments will see the Scottish forum and check in there. The same cannot be said for the same situation in reverse.

Understanding failure. On the UK index it would read Glasgow Metro area and Scotland. Clicking on that would take you to the Glasgow Metro area and there would be the link to the scotland sub forum in there. Glasgow would be getting all the emphasis. As is appropriate considering it is more substantial.

Understanding failure. On the UK index it would read Glasgow Metro area and Scotland. Clicking on that would take you to the Glasgow Metro area and there would be the link to the scotland sub forum in there. Glasgow would be getting all the emphasis. As is appropriate considering it is more substantial.

See, it's a bit pointless considering the amount of work that's already been done. Why not work with what we have (very kindly, actually) been given already and see if it works? Tailoring our forum to excess and pestering Dave / Goth is probably not the best way for the Scotland / Glasgow forum to move forward.

Reading Goth's explanation on the other thread it actually makes more sense this way.

But anyway, I can't possibly be found to agree with you for once so. No. You are wrong.

Good boy ;)

WRONG!

:lol:

No.

No!

Understanding failure. On the UK index it would read Glasgow Metro area and Scotland. Clicking on that would take you to the Glasgow Metro area and there would be the link to the scotland sub forum in there. Glasgow would be getting all the emphasis. As is appropriate considering it is more substantial.
I agree with this. I think this is what should be done.

All in favour say aye.

Aye

Aye.

Aye

Aye

And for the 'NAY's . . . .


It still doesn't make sense to do that though. Anyone looking for Glasgow developments will see the Scottish forum and check in there. The same cannot be said for the same situation in reverse.that's exactly how I see the logic of the structure. As it is now.

The branching structure follows the pattern in which each level includes all the places whose sub-fora are within it. That's intuitively right.

For the Glasgow level to include Scotland is intuitively wrong (even if its called Glasgow and Scotland).