Here are some of my thoughts.
- What is the best way to welcome people to the community?
Issues with the current system were summarized by @lkraus in the thread “Forum is unfriendly to new users”. My take away from this thread at the time was that we need to better educate new people to the requirements needed to post new threads. How this should happen I’m still trying to work out. A sticky at the top of the forum and multiple forum posts don’t seem to be as effective as I had hoped.
- Are there any suggestion for forum housekeeping and topic classification?
I would like to offer users that haven’t changed their usernames from the the initial “user_1234567890” a one time chance to change their username to their choice. I find it gives the forum a more personal feel and it is easier to identify individual users this way. This could be done on a case by case basis or logged via a thread.
- How do we keep the forum interesting for regulars?
What I really miss about oldschool forums is people sharing the projects they are working on and build logs. On this forum I personally really enjoy @Ukdavewood
" Cruise Ship Print" and " Making better use of Flush-into object in Bambu Studio " threads.
Also @Josh-3D " Things Josh is Designing/Printing" and " It’s the weekend. What are you printing?" threads.
I have some projects I want to document and post.