[Danny B.]

Hi folks!

I've been visiting the article section a lot lately, not only for writing articles but also for reading about many interesting subjects.

I have noticed that there's always a new article on a daily basis, which is great!

But I think there is one problem..

Some articles just vanish very quickly, as new articles are posted and sometimes it's hard to find articles about a particular subject.. So my suggestion for that, would be to split the article section into sub-sections according to topic subjects, for example:

Technology
Making Money Online
Business
Personal Finance
Self Improvement

This would also make it easier for guests to browse trough our article section and find articles relevant to their interests.. Because the way it is now you just have to browse between a lot of different topics so it's not very straighforward you know.

It doesn't seem a lot of work to implement.. what do you guys say?

[cmoneyspinner]

It's a great idea. But in the meanwhile to help me find my articles I usually group them by giving them similar titles.

I have a group that begins with the generic overall topic "Blogging Advice" and then I add the specific topic so my titles read like this:

Blogging Advice : Best Blogging Platforms
Blogging Advice : Related Posts Widgets
Blogging Advice : Start a Post Series

Like you I sometimes have problems finding stuff.
That "trick" makes it easier for me to at least find my own stuff.

[Ash]

I think that this would actually be a good idea. Would make it a lot easier for a lot of people to find specific posts and read them. +1

[OldGuy]

There have been several suggestions for adding categories in the past. I have made some myself. Each time this idea has been presented, one of the administrators has responded that they prefer not to add more categories; apparently because it seems to litter the site with confusion.

As the content increases, it becomes harder to find content you are interested in. The more threads a site has, the greater the importance of adding categories to keep them where they can be found. It also becomes more important for the members to put the new threads in the right places, which is an apparent problem for many members even now.

I was active on another site in the past that had an index of nearly 525 categories when I joined. It had expanded to over 850 categories by the time I was no longer involved. However, there were also over 8 million threads on that site. That was an average of 9411 threads per category. Stuff was all over the map in the wrong places and it became even harder to find content you knew was there. The moderators were unable to keep up with the idiots.

As of this post, there are only 416,522 posts on 18,703 threads on this site. There are 8 main category sections and 8 subsections here right now. That means there are only an average of 2337 threads per main category with many of them already split up amongst the subsections. The article section only has 1150 topics right now.

If you have not noticed, there have been many posts from administrators who have moved a thread to the correct category because many members can't seem to get it right even as it is now. When you add more categories, it adds a lot of work for the moderators to constantly move threads to the correct category. There is a lot to consider before adding categories. It is always possible, but really needs to be carefully calculated before taking action.

For now, you can find just about any topic that exists by using the search system, accessed by the magnifying glass at the far right end of the top line of links. That is a lot less complicated for those who do the work of running and maintaining the site, and ultimately makes it easier to find that elusive content.

[bendahara]

Personally I think index do help to deep dive into the specific area that I felt that it could be useful for an example, if I want to learn more about SEO, the SEO tag could allow me to zoom straight to there and saving some time to filiter out the threads