I’ve seen plenty of closed threads, but has there ever been a closed forum? There is an icon for this, I know…
They are left over from the UBB board software days.
They were for moving “archive” threads to, ones seldom modified.
Only a few qualified, like that fancy coding tutorial of Louie’s.
Actually, one of the extra forums could work for that purpose now.
Could be used to store notices of a permanent nature. The only ones suggested so far for that are
- an announcement thread, including links to the people pages and the e-zine.
- an acronym/local terms thread
- and a fancy coding tricks thread.
That would make for a short forum. Also, there are several alternatives, like boosting key threads from time to time, putting more info into the FAQ links, etc.
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