Restructure forum?

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#1

The current forum structure still loosely resembles the old forum structure and has quite a few categories and sub categorises.
Finding information is a bit of struggle, and a lot of users just end posting in the default Help category.

Current Structure

I’ve added some logical sectioning to increase legibility, this doesn’t current exist ofc.

Volumio

├── Help and Support
    ├── Help
    ├── Compatibility Lists
    └── Guides

├── Volumio Community Forums
    ├── News and Announcements
    ├── Introduce Yourself
    └── Vox Populi

├── MyVolumio
    ├── MyVolumio Help and Support
    └── MyVolumio Discussion

Development

├── Plugins

├── Diy and Tweaks
    ├── Diy Volumio Projects
    └── Diy and Tweaks
├── Volumio Development
    ├── Suggest a feature
    ├── Volumio Beta Testing
    ├── Development talks
    ├── Bug reports
    └── Developer's Corner

├── Community Portings
    ├── Amlogic
    ├── Cubox-i
    ├── Khadas
    ├── NanoPi NEO
    ├── Odroid
    ├── Orange Pi
    ├── Pine64
    ├── Rock64
    └── Voltastream

Gear and music

├── Audio Gear
    ├── DACs
    ├── Amplifiers
    ├── Loudspeakers
    └── Everything else

├── Music
    ├── Now listening
    └── You just need to hear this!

Buy, Sell, Trade

├── Audiophile Bazaar
    ├── User Marketplace - Buy, Sell & Trade
    └── Merchant's Corner 

├── Volumio Shop
    ├── Products Discussions
    └── Vendor Feedbacks

Misc

└──  Site Feedback

Refactored setup

Discourse has an additional <tag> field that makes some things moot, but we could also simply the structure.

For example, combine Help and Support

├── Help and Support
    ├── Help => ../
├── MyVolumio
    ├── MyVolumio Help and Support => ../Help and Support/MyVolumio

To .Be.Continued –

#2

Yep, I agree it could do with simplifying, and trimming down too … some sections are only posted to once in a blue moon.

#3

What do (@admins, @moderators) l think of something along these lines?

Community

├── Volumio Community 
    ├── Introduce Yourself
    ├── Vox Populi
    └── Feedback  // separate subcategory required?

Help and Support

├── Help and Support
    ├── MyVolumio
    ├── Device Compatibility
    └── Guides

Volumio Ecosystem

├── Volumio Experience 
    ├── MyVolumio
    ├── Hardware  // Primo, Motivo, BassOwl, etc
    └── Shop // separate subcategory required?

Development, hacks, tweaks and ports

├── Volumio Development // Bug reports can be tagged bug
    ├── Suggest a feature
    └── Volumio Testing
├── DIY Tweaks
    └──  Projects
├── Community Plugins
├── Community Ports
    ├── Amlogic
    ├── Cubox-i
    ├── Khadas
    ├── NanoPi NEO
    ├── Odroid
    ├── Orange Pi
    ├── Pine64
    ├── Rock64
    └── Voltastream
#4

Personally I think ‘Plugins’ are of such importance as to have their own section, or at least a sub-section under ‘Ecosystem’

#5

agree!

#6

Ah, I just added some labels are just for logical grouping, they won’t show up in the structure… The tree is the first level… Feel free to suggest what you all think works! :slight_smile:

### Root category for Community things
├── Volumio Community 
    ├── Introduce Yourself
    ├── Vox Populi
    └── Feedback               
### Help and Support  things
├── Help and Support 
    ├── MyVolumio
    ├── Device Compatibility
    └── Guides
### Volumio Ecosystem things
├── Volumio Experience 
    ├── MyVolumio
    ├── Hardware                 # Primo, Motivo, BassOwl, etc
    └── Shop                     # separate subcategory required?
### Development, hacks, tweaks and ports 
├── Volumio Development          # Bug reports can be tagged bug
    ├── Suggest a feature
    └── Volumio Testing
├── DIY Tweaks
    └──  Projects
├── Plugins 
    └──  Community
├── Community Ports             # Do we need sub categories - tags might work here?
    ├── Amlogic              
    ├── Cubox-i
    ├── Khadas
    ├── NanoPi NEO
    ├── Odroid
    ├── Orange Pi
    ├── Pine64
    ├── Rock64
    └── Voltastream
#7

Good idea to reorganise. MyVolumio falls under 2 headings, which might complicate. Maybe have its own top level section. Or call the one under Volumio Experience ‘MyVolumio Account’