Thread:User talk:GethN7/Post-TVT? & misc/reply (8)

TBH, the short supply of moderators has very little to do with it, though it makes a great excuse :P

Each of our admins has a different issue with the forums on TVT. The main issue to me is that they just aren't focused on the core purpose of the website, and distract from the wiki content and literary criticism. For Looney Toons, the complaint stems from the fact that the community is splintered, and forum goers seemed unaware of (and looked down upon) users who did a lot for the actual wiki. GethN7 thinks its a source of embarrassing content, and definitely a generation dynamo for the lower 90% of Sturgeon's Law.

I'm going put on my software dev hat, too. I don't think that tight integration of the forum with the wiki is desirable -- it slows down the wiki, and opens us to using some other extension that's kind of jammed into the wiki software (like this "page" in Liquid Threads is now). What is possible is some sort of parser hook within a real forum software which uses the Mediawiki API to render internal links. That's pretty much the single major use for wiki formatting on a forum. Of course, I don't have a time now to implement this, but really, anyone else could do it.

So at some level, those concerns need to be addressed -- solved, refuted, or overpowered by other needs -- before we'd move forward with a bigger forum.