Simple site restructuring...Problems with Electric Onroad section.
 

Hello mods and all other members. Continuing the thread started by Futureal in the Electric Onroad section, lets get down to business.

I and MANY others here feel that the Electric Onroad section is and has been the "catch-all" section for quite sometime.

My suggestion would be for the Forum layout to be re-structured like this:

(General Interest Forums)
1. RcTech Chat Lounge
2. Racing Forum
3. Rookie Zone
4. Track Locator Forum
5. Electronics Zone (Radios, ESCs, Chargers, etc.)
6. Painting, Designs, Graphics and Photography
7. RcTech Site Suggestion Forum


(On-Road Forums)
1. Onroad Chat Lounge
2. 1/10 Electric Touring
3. Nitro On-Road
4. 1/12th - 1/10th PanCar

(Off-Road and Monster Forums)
1. Off-Road Chat Lounge
2. 1/10th Off-Road
3. 1/8th Off-Road
4. Monster Truck Off-Road

Then simply keep the order for the remaining forums, as the ForSale and all the other forums are ok.

Basically, this type of restructuring would be easy to do and would make RcTech a much more organised and RC-Friendly place to be.

Please take my suggestion into consideration, Also...if anyone who reads this agrees with my suggestion, simply reply with a short note saying so.

Thanks,

Sean M. Kaldahl - Soviet

GOOD IDEA! :nod: :cool:

Thanks for ignoring US. . . :P

1/10th Pan Car (Road Course, not Oval) - 9000 posts can't be wrong! :D

FIXED!!!

I agree, and like Boomer said, don't forget the 10th pan cars!
Also, don't throw away the current longer threads. Lot's of usefull info there.
IMHO, It might be usefull to make a FAQ section for every class, so the same questions wouldn't have to be answered over and over again.

This would definately be good !

I would also underline, that the direction RCTech Electric onroad forum goes for the moment, tend to be more and more boring. Many repeated questions about the very same thing and also longer and longer between any usefull info. So to avoid that the current trend, please use this thread.

Thats the reason I suggested a "chat" type forum for each general catagory. ;)

One more thing that I would suggest would be to expand the specific car threads to sub-threads.
Let's take my example, when I started in 1/10 EP cars with a losi xxxs a few months ago (I am an 8th scale off roader) I had to go through thousands of posts so as to get the info I needed, ending up asking probably the same things that were answered a couple of thousand posts behind.
So a format of the type
1/10 on road
----Team Losi
----------XXXS
-------------How do I ........?
-------------Diff problem
----------JRXS
-------------How do you......up your..... ?
----Tamiya
----------TRF415

1/10 off road
----Associated
----------B4
----------T4


and so on and so forth



Anyway it is up to futureal, whose time, I and we should all appreciate.

Just my 2 cents

Antonis

Under the General forums there should be an Electronics section... No matter what we race we all use the same radio's, batteries and chargers....

Agreed.

Great idea...List fixed to reflect.

I really like the FAQ idea, and would be nice to have someone who could kinda keep them up to date but that's a BIG job.

I mean, in the NTC3 thread, the biggest question (ongoing. . .always. . .) is new people coming in asking for essential upgrades. . .and who wants to read through several hundred posts.

I see the same thing on the TC4, 1/10th Pan, 1/12th, etc.

Not sure how this could be easily implemented. . .but would be nice, eh?

It's very difficult to search an individual post.... I've tried.... I think the new VB software will alow you to do it, but Shane needs the time and money to do that....

The problem is, there are so many different cars out there, attempting to make a forum for each you'd end up with 200 sub forums...

There's also a ton of tips that can go between cars/companies...

So... Something like this....

Electric On road (main forum)
-Subs-
Yokomo
AE
Losi
Xray
Corally
(etc...)

I hate trying to search the large posts for info...

Look...you MUST divide by classes, not manufacturer. If you go by manufacturer, you'll end up with the tangled mess we have now.

By dividing by class, you automatically create a logical search pattern for the end user.

Within each class' forums, you then could have sticky'd threads for all the popular car makes, and leave the rest of the forum for the more general-type stuff.

Here's the biggest problem....

If you have a TC3 and you want to find info on it, you still have to search through a post of 10,000 replies of mostly people having conversations....

Kinda like the Yokomo... There's the MR4TC-SD post... But yet it covers the SSG, CGM, Rayspeed and now worlds... Although the cars share suspension and gears, the cars are very different....