Subtle changes, bugs and feedback

On subforums?

When I started with LFGSS on Microcosm I thought the pushback was merely the degree of change that people had experienced. But yet, it really is harder to manage classifieds, polo, and other parts of the site where multiple forums logically belong to the same group.

Then I still thought... meh, it will get easier and it will be fine... but other sites that were brand new and had never used vBulletin came online and they had their own issues too.

Then there was the way we do permissions... which is per-forum... it's a pain in the arse to configure permissions for a whole site, because you have to copy a forum's permissions to every other forum.

Finally Rapha started using Microcosm and they wanted geographical forums, and forums within those to manage types of things: racing, social, etc.

And it basically makes sense... and this isn't just change, and it does fix a lot of things.

So what I'm working on is this:

• Forums can contain forums, just as they can contain conversations and events
  
• Forums that are children of another forum inherit permissions, unless they have their own permissions
  
• The home page... is a forum
  
• Meaning that every visible forum is already a child of "Home"
  
• Meaning that the entire site permissions can be set in one place
  
• Also meaning that conversations can be used as notices by being pinned at the top of the home page
  
  

It basically fixes a lot of stuff, but does require a lot of changes.