Front-end review forum?

[RoboG2]

Would it be possible to start a front-end review board?

[javeryh]

Maybe not a board but a sticky would be nice.  I don't think there is a "perfect" FE for everyone though and what someone would rate very high might not be so great to someone else...

[RoboG2]

[RoboG2]

Sorry, I meant forum, not board.

[papaschtroumpf]

or did you mean athread, not a forum? 

[mahuti]

Hey, if there is a game review forum, there sould be an FE review forum... absolutely. So there's no "perfect" fe... having a group of easily available reviews with points & counterpoints will be very valuable.

[paigeoliver]

I vote no, this forum basically IS all about frontends. Creating a zillion subforums doesn't make things easier to deal with, it just makes people ignore the smallest forums, I already have to check a rediculous amount of forum categories.

[Howard_Casto]

Agreed.

[pointdablame]

I have to agree that there is no need for a sub-forum.

While there are plenty of choices as far as FEs go, there is hardly enough to fill an entire subforum with useful information.

Plus every post would be "What FE should I realllllllly use," "I can't get XXXXX to work" and the same stuff we see here anyway.

If you want great reviews of FEs... try them out yourself.  If you find one you like, keep using it.  If you think something out there might be better... give it a shot.  Thats the only way to do this... not a subforum

[mahuti]

This is what moderation is for. Not every post has to live forever. If no one wants to moderate a useful topic like this, then it will not work as well as it could.

[Chris]

I don't know if it calls for a forum.  On the other hand, a RetroBlast video review....

[saint]

Heh. Speak softly and carry a Howard Casto.

Saint's a nice guy and has a hard time saying no, that's why I'm here. 

[ultrastyle]

Heh. Speak softly and carry a Howard Casto.

Well it rhymes with stick anyhow...

[Howard_Casto]

This is what moderation is for. Not every post has to live forever. If no one wants to moderate a useful topic like this, then it will not work as well as it could.

I hope I can speak for the moderators when I say it's hard enough for them to get rid of offensive and wildy off-topic posts, much less decide how long a post should last.  There are dozens of posts per day on even the unpopular sections of the forums. 

[Howard_Casto]

Heh. Speak softly and carry a Howard Casto.

Well it rhymes with stick anyhow...

Nice joke, wrong adjective.  I prefer the "A" one, it denotes that you aren't stupid, rather just a jerk. 

[mahuti]

I understand the current moderators have their hands full. Solution? Add more moderators... or just a moderator for one forum that isn't nuts.

[DrewKaree]

What about a forum for moderators 

I think a simple features list, like a table, with a "check" for each feature to compare FE's across the board would be all that's needed for someone to start in narrowing it down, and it wouldn't need to be a forum, but instead, a locked sticky.

IMO, a review forum will invite all the questions currently being posed, as well as an added headache for the mods moving the questions posed in the wrong forum. 

Remember, build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

[Howard_Casto]

I understand the current moderators have their hands full. Solution? Add more moderators... or just a moderator for one forum that isn't nuts.

Call the mods nuts, that's smart. (Howard_Casto moves three steps away to avoid the lightning bolt.) There are 2 to 3 mods per forum now and they have their hands full.  Adding moderators isn't an easy task as they have to be relatively neutral and dedicated to donating their time.   

btw I'm not a mod for obvious reasons so if that shot was for me you missed. 


Drew... check the forum history.  Also check what I just posted.  Just listing features of a fe is a full time job, much less all of them.  We already have a list of front ends and their general features on byoac's links, but it's horribly outdated, mainly because only developers really know what their fes can do and we don't have the time.   


I think the idea has merit, it's just literally a full time job for someone or a group of people and so-far no one is willing to do it. 

Oh and there is a moderator's forum, we just can't see it because we aren't moderators. 
 

[mahuti]

I'm not talking about the current mods being nuts. I'm suggesting that many other boards have mods that are (I know from my own admin experience on a board with millions of viewers.) What I was suggesting is the same as what you just said... it's tough to find even-minded moderators.

Also not a shot at you. I don't shoot people. I shoot messages to people.