OFFTOPIC: Never found a forum that was actually worth my time, I guess. It seems like a time consuming process to find where everything is after singing up. While searching for info on camera repair courses, I found their website and then started looking into them. That's how I got to this thread and from here, to the forum.
Thanks for having me and sorry for the offtopic
Well as the OP I can tell you this thread has run it’s course/filled it’s potential.
Anything on top is just gravy.
Let it go in any direction it wants.
I think you touch on an interesting not often discussed aspect:
That forums and their structure can be overwhelming and intimidating to people who are used to oversimplified, gimped used interfaces that market lack of features and structure as user friendliness.
Fora/message boards can on the other hand be overcomplicated and impose unnecessary structures on content.
Structures that often hinders thought and talk rather than encourage it.
And structures that doesn’t aid the find-ability and clarity they where intended for.
This forum could probably do with a bit fewer catergories and just kick out the purely digital part entirely or split it off again and go back to the original name.
Even I, a relatively new kid in the game respond more to “APUG” than “Photrio”. Even after three and a half years.
I never used APUG, so I don’t have any personal nostalgia. It’s just a better name.
I know about Sean’s original
explanation, but I believe that was a momentary hiccup in time for a few years if anything.
Spreading out and becoming generic was never the answer to anything.