Board Thread:The Gatehouse/@comment-24160655-20140129164526

Hey fellow contributors and habiteers,

at the moment we are in the process of migrating the old community pages to this place. It will be easier to maintain and we have a wide variety of options for customization.

Now there is one thing we need to talk about: The Keep.

Up to this point most of the migration was in my hand and I thought it would be good to mix the new community style forums (which you're reading in right now) with the wiki-style forums known as The Keep. They have different advantages and disadvantages:

Community style:


 * + Quick access (also anon)
 * + Easy threading
 * + Direct access for discussions on wiki pages
 * + Perfect for LFG
 * + Easy polls
 * - No stickies
 * - Limited Moderation
 * - Limited formatting
 * - No templates

Wiki style:


 * + Templates
 * + Full formatting options
 * + Stickies
 * + Better mod-options
 * + Better discussion possibilities (like talk pages on wikis)
 * - Not as easy as community style
 * - Afaik not polls
 * - Bigger barrier to jump in

The current implementation I chose is a hybrid solution. For example the Polls and LFG are definitely something that is perfect for the community style forums, however the Wizardry for tipps and tricks or the Dungeon would be better off having stickies and less strict threading. So put them into The Keep. However, Wikia has archived the entire wiki-style forum, which makes it inaccessible for non-mods. However, Breadstings has pointed me to the tardis wiki they use this hybrid approach as well and quite successful. They have done this by changing the namespace for the wiki-style Forum to The Howling (it's a Dr. Who thing). To do this, we have to have a discussion about this and then contact the Wikia Staff when we reached consensus.

What do you think? Do you have suggestions?

But most important:

What do you think about changing the wiki-style Forum Namespace to The Keep, so we can use it properly? 