Forums are very cluttered
 

It always occurs to me, particularly in the Main Froum section, that there is waaaaay too much going on here.

There are over 8 subforums, 4 stickies, etc...

Does anybody else think it's hard to navigate this way?

I dont find it hard to navigate at all. I use the "new posts" link. :)

Like MG I use the "new posts" link, but I also find it to be too cluttered. It needs to be cleaned up so new users aren't instantly put off by the giant wall of sub-forums in the main section.

It would help if the jobs forum was moved (or not expanded). Also, perhaps move "Server Maintenance" to the Playerworlds forum.

Make it so the subforums in the Job forum aren't visible from this forum.

We could also prune locked/deleted/way old topics, or move them to a hidden archive section. Inverness has the right idea, too.

I don't agree, the old topics are just fine and keeping them there simply means there will be many pages available.

A lot of the sub-forums could be all within one forum. The majority of stickied threads could also be too!1

I have no problem with the forums.. They are good for me.

The hiring sub forums could be always be moved to their actual parent forums.
Eg. Zone hiring's forum to Zone Forum
Era hiring forum to Era forum
PWA hiring forum to PWA forum etc.

Yeah I agree, I posted something similar when the forums were made free here and apparently it was planned, but never happened. The forums should be expanded on to reflect Graal more to attract more players to use the forums (amongst other things of course) and a lot could be improved about the forums as well, but nobody can do it!

I don't see the purpose of having topics that mislead people. For instance, new scripters searching for something in the scripting forum, but getting an outdated script example.

How can a script example be outdated if it still works?

GS1 = outdated. ;)

They'll just have to learn to read the date.

It still works. Perhaps someone needs help with a GS1 script? Or for converting to GS2?

Scripting help should never be removed because it's old.

In my opinion the only reason to delete old forums posts would be if the server is running out of disk space and more is needed. I am completely ignorant of how much disk space a large forum would take on average though.

That's cheating! You're not navigating at all >_<

Is it within your power to make it so the jobs forum is collapsed and not showing the sub-sub forums?

she can, but she'll need unixmad's approval (I know this because I tried to get something changed in the Era forum)

I have never been given permission to have free reigns on the forums. As far as I know, all changes have to go through unixmad and/or Stefan