Sociopath Community

Categories was an idea Luna tried to plug many times in the past that others seemed to not enjoy the idea of, but much of that was more about policing said categories than the piggybacked point of how pointless it was to try to split the forum up like that. 

Brainstorming sounds like the way to go, for now at least. Categories as a division seems imprecise when it comes to finding that one specific post you half-remembered during a conversation. 

I am on the fence about this until I know what the categories are. On other forums I feel that dividing into categories divides the user base. Rather than interacting as 1, people will stay within the category they are most comfortable with and it negatively impacts socialization on those forums.

I think separating the forum by interests/ hobbies increases this problem as someone interested in only gaming or politics may not ever leave those categories, and then we basically just have reddit. Dividing categories by content rather than topic may be a more inclusive. For example "drama" as a category for threads made about oneself or other members. Or "shared content" as a category for all music, news articles, youtube videos etc. This breaks things down into more manageable groups for the search feature, while staying iclusive enough to keep members regularly active in more categories.


Edit: Actually the more I think about it the more I hate the idea. I use other forums that are divided by category and the feeling is so compartmentalized and anti-social I just come here instead. Perhaps giving posts #tags could be a way to alivate the search without sectioning off the website. Then search could be performed within tags.

I think categories will mostly be uninteresting and dividing it into sections will appear to have low turnout/activity.

The no category layout is abusive and primitive, like it shouldn't exist in this day and age, and it gives SC that deep abyss effect, where exploring it is a form of hell cause there's so much garbage, but once in awhile gems can be found. 

It's better off narrow.

Instead of many categories or no categories, we could have just 2. Make them unique and meme-able, and we'll have a new fresh element to the forum instead of fragmenting the community into dozens of categories for the sake of feeling organised. 

I figured that the categories were more like tags for topics. 

Turncoat said: 

I figured that the categories were more like tags for topics. 

It wasn't conveyed very well. I took it to mean like other forums I use where the website is a collection of forums (like 4chan)

The issue is not the host, it's my search function is coded retardedly.

I am adding categories to the software anyway, but you can choose to use them, or not to use them.
They will look as they do on a forum like kivi.

Good said: 

The issue is not the host, it's my search function is coded retardedly.

 

I am adding categories to the software anyway, but you can choose to use them, or not to use them.
They will look as they do on a forum like kivi.

 So the front page will have all the categories listed, you choose the category to go to a section with posts i that category. Would we have the "new posts" area as well which compiles posts from all categories to look at in one area?

Will the chat box be on a separate page from the categories, or still be at the top of every page?