New subforums in TT - what are your opinions?

[Cyclenall]

If traffic is much less or even less, then I'm totally against it. Hopefully people will still share their views on foreign tropical cyclones since nothing is going on the Atlantic right now.

[Andrew92]

I personally like the idea. I like to follow other storms around the world, along with Atlantic storms. I don't have a WPAC or Indian Ocean tracking map, unfortunately, but those storms are still very fascinating. I don't think separate subforums for each basin will slow down traffic here. And even if it does, remember all of the great times we had when the server was slow due to traffic during Ivan, Katrina, or Charley?

Great improvement, S2K!

-Andrew92

[kevin]

I changed my mind. I don't want to have to scroll down every time I access talking tropics in order to get past the subforum list. That clutters the board more in my opinion.

[Aquawind]

It will take a bit of getting use to, but during busy time will be excellent for visitors to seperate the threads they are not interested in.
They will be lonely forums at times...

[P.K.]

If we really have to separate the North Atlantic systems from all other systems and people see the current new system as cluttering up Talkin' Tropics how about this. Two forums on the main page (So you can see new post icons for both, something which you can't at the moment) entitled something along the lines of "Talkin' Tropics - North Atlantic" and "Talkin' Tropics - Global" .

[senorpepr]

You know, P.K., that may be a more efficient solution here. It keeps the "foreign" storms together where we don't have to hop between five different sections, but still eliminates all the "clutter" from the Atlantic storms.

(For what it's worth, I still think one thread on a tropical cyclone in another basin is far less clutter than a dozen threads--half of which are locked--for one Atlantic system)

[mf_dolphin]

Let's give this a few weeks and if we need to we'll change it up a bit

[HurricaneBill]

I know I'm probably in the minority here, but I don't like it. Threads about non-Atlantic storms did not clutter the board up. I enjoy discussing current storms regardless of whether they are Atlantic or not. To me, the subforums seem kinda pointless. If you don't want to read a thread about a TC in another basin, just skip over it.

I liked this forum because we have people from around the world, from different basins, posting in it. To divide it into subforums kinda takes away from that.

[Coredesat]

I don't like it either; in fact, I really don't like it. My first thought when seeing it was that someone must be fed up with discussion of activity other than in the Atlantic - after all, the activity is not in the Atlantic, and most people here want to see something in their own basin.

I understand that most people here only care about Atlantic tropical cyclones, but relegating tropical cyclones that form elsewhere makes them seem less important, when they're not; no basin should be considered "less important" than any other basin, whether or not people here think they're "boring" (after the typhoons in the Philippines last year, I got upset at people who didn't care about the other basins because they're "boring").

If the discussion on Atlantic storms gets too much, then I'd agree with splitting off the other basins, but right now that doesn't seem to be the case.

[Chacor]

I don't like it. As one of the main contributors to the "foreign" TC threads I'm rather unhappy that a lot of people here are so biased in their responses (eg the guy who responded saying only "it's a great idea" with the American flag, that's awful to me - is that trying to say the NAtl basin is superior?). I agree with PK - those who call our threads 'clutter' - Atlantic threads can be 'clutter' too for someone looking for a thread on a WPac or SHem storm. Given that I also contribute to Atlantic threads, I'm rather disappointed that this is the view of so many people.

I'd rather have just one "Rest-of-world" subforum and one Atlantic subforum, then people can choose the one they want, as PK said. To have four subforums will mean that some of them end up being VERY empty.

[wxmann_91]

I actually wouldn't come here as often as I do if the foreign TC discussions didn't exist - 9 out of 12 months in an average year, there's nothing in the Atlantic that would excite me. But I'm all in for storms like Gonu, Bondo, etc, which can occur year round depending on the basin.

[StormScanWx]

Perhaps change the name of the Talkin' Tropics forum to Talkin' Atlantic or something similar. When I first looked, I didn't see an Atlantic subforum. Maybe even have an Atlantic subforum and let this be just the main tropical weather forum.

Just a thought.

[MiamiensisWx]

I'm in the midst of the minority, too. I disagree with the split. A singular Talkin' Tropics forum fostered some lively international TC discussions. The subforums would relinquish these benefits, thus reducing discussion. That's a sad fact, especially because of the great synoptic discussions. The facts were intriguing, too. It is easier to explore the threads within a single forum.

[Stephanie]

I guess I don't understand how there WON'T BE lively international TC discussions, unless you don't click on that particular forum.

I think that when the Atlantic basin heats up it gets crazy enough as it is with the updates, thoughts, opinions, which is GREAT, but a lot of interesting threads about what is happening with that particular storm OR other international storms can quickly get lost on page 2 and 3, never to be seen.

[Vortex]

I like the idea

[Cookiely]

I changed my mind. I don't want to have to scroll down every time I access talking tropics in order to get past the subforum list. That clutters the board more in my opinion.

I agree. Perhaps it can be reversed to the bottom instead of the top.

[Chacor]

I changed my mind. I don't want to have to scroll down every time I access talking tropics in order to get past the subforum list. That clutters the board more in my opinion.

I agree. Perhaps it can be reversed to the bottom instead of the top.

NO! That's even worse because no-one would scroll to the bottom to find them and would make it worse than it is right now.

[wxmann_91]

I changed my mind. I don't want to have to scroll down every time I access talking tropics in order to get past the subforum list. That clutters the board more in my opinion.

I agree. Perhaps it can be reversed to the bottom instead of the top.

If you know how hard, difficult, and demanding it is to scroll down just a little to get to your discussions, think about what a disaster it would be for us, to have to scroll down all the way to get to our discussions.

[Coredesat]

If there is to be any forum split, I agree with renaming this forum to "Talkin' Atlantic", and giving all the other basins their own forum (not a subforum - a main forum, on the same level as Talkin' Tropics currently is). I've moderated phpBB forums in the past, and it isn't any trouble to create another regular forum, nor is it any trouble to move all the threads in the split forums to that forum.

But if you do that, all the people who don't like the discussion on other basins don't have to worry about having to scroll down (seriously?) to read their other threads.

[wjs3]

I know I'm probably in the minority here, but I don't like it. Threads about non-Atlantic storms did not clutter the board up. I enjoy discussing current storms regardless of whether they are Atlantic or not. To me, the subforums seem kinda pointless. If you don't want to read a thread about a TC in another basin, just skip over it.

I liked this forum because we have people from around the world, from different basins, posting in it. To divide it into subforums kinda takes away from that.

Agreed. And, there's a lot to learn from those cyclones in other basins and from some of the (incredible) people who post in some of those threads. I don't like having to go hunt those down. I don't think they clutter thnigs up, and in fact, I LOVE it when a TC really gets going (Gonu, anyone?) elsewhere in the world and it's easy to follow it here.

My two cents.

WJS3