I don't use the PMM forum so I'm not familiar with their "All Public Forums" feature or how it works.* If it's something that would maintain all the current forum categories but duplicates new, unread posts in a central "mailbox" then I can see how that might be useful for some people.* But if this is something that simply combines all the category forums into one central forum, then I don't think this would be an improvement.* It would be like the T&T list, where you see everything and have to scan down all of it to find the posts or threads you're interested in.
Personally I think Trawler Forum as it's set up now is ideal communications tool.* The only part of it that could be questioned are the individual make forums which seem to get very little use.* I assume this is because for many of the makes, large owner-forums already exist.* I don't know if the number of forum categories impact the cost of hosting the forum, but if it does, dropping the individual make categories would probably have little or no impact on the use, vlaue,*and popularity of the overall forum.
But that is the only change I can think of that might be beneficial.* The current setup which shows each user which categories have new or unread posts is great, as is the ability to go directly to the latest post in a thread.
So I don't feel as though it takes too much time to get to the newest posts.
-- Edited by Marin at 12:47, 2008-10-13