High-Rise Developments?

[lakeshore]

What is the height requirement for a building to be a high-rise in this forum? What will be left to talk about In the Development News forum? The only reason I am asking is because I wanted to be the first to post in this forum.:)

[Jaye101]

haha, I think it should be placed at 12 stories? We're using this as a way to expand the Toronto Forum! :)

[phunky]

You might want to put a sticky explaining the purposes of each forum in each forum.

I have a feeling the low-rise development forum might not get much traffic, however.

PS: Expanding the Toronto forum would allow Greater Toronto developments to be in these forums, or have a subforum like the high-rise and low-rise forums. That would be truly "expanding" ;)

[kettal]

Now I have to sift through 4 Toronto boards? Is there a way to see new posts in all of them at once somehow?

[phunky]

I would also like to see the regular developments forum closed if you're going to seperate the two into low and high rise.
Although I think you're already planning on that. Just moving all of the topics into the correct forums.

[Jaye101]

^^ Yep, that's exactly what's happening... 15 stories = Highrise?

[gei]

This was a really bad idea.

Not only is it ambigious what's considered a high rise and what's considered a low-rise.... there just wasn't enough traffic on the main development board to justify this additional granularity.

It takes too much time to have to go through two seperate forums to see one or two posts that have been updated in each. It was much easier to see them all together in one forum.

On top of that some developments are neither high rise nor low rise... ie the waterfront stuff (HtO). Where will these threads go if the main development forum closes?

All in all I think it was a very bad idea and we should go back to the original format.

[phunky]

Well personally I find it odd that changes are done to the format without considering the members first. It seems a lot of message forums are created for the owners of sites rather than for the members. Decisions are made without consulting the members.
There hasn't even been a proper explanation for the changes given to the Toronto forumers.

I don't much think this change was necessary either. There just isn't enough traffic in the development forums for this. Also a development is a development. I don't think we need to segregate the two types.

[InTheBeach]

I don't get it.

Does this mean that more developments are coming? If you build it, they will come?

Announcements are slowing down. That's why people are starting to bite each other. That is the new form of entertainment. Lot's getting built, but not much that is new to discuss. I guess we need to see this current round rising above ground level.

How many Manulife fights can we have?

[ScrapeTheSky]

I have to admit I'm not a big fan of splitting the developments forum into high and low rise. It just makes things more confusing.

[Jaye101]

Eh Phunky, that's why this thread is here. I've been observing the Chicago Forum which has the same configuration, and I thought it worked very well. It helps us not forget about the smaller projects that are also changing our city for the better. There is a lot of activity in the Toronto forum, and expanding this section was to ensure there was no loss of information of the many projects around the city. A high-rise in this context is 15st+. The Toronto Forum is one of the most active forum's in NASF and this split, along with other expansions will only increase the activity around here. It shouldn't be confusing at all, it's actually quite clear. However after a few months of trial if you guys wish to return to the original format I will make sure that will happen.

-Jaye

[Taller, Better]

Announcements are slowing down. That's why people are starting to bite each other. That is the new form of entertainment. Lot's getting built, but not much that is new to discuss.


You might have put your finger on it, Beach. Good observation. There is a certain crankiness in the air of late.

[phunky]

Eh Phunky, that's why this thread is here. I've been observing the Chicago Forum which has the same configuration, and I thought it worked very well. It helps us not forget about the smaller projects that are also changing our city for the better. There is a lot of activity in the Toronto forum, and expanding this section was to ensure there was no loss of information of the many projects around the city. A high-rise in this context is 15st+. The Toronto Forum is one of the most active forum's in NASF and this split, along with other expansions will only increase the activity around here. It shouldn't be confusing at all, it's actually quite clear. However after a few months of trial if you guys wish to return to the original format I will make sure that will happen.

-Jaye
Well yes that is why the thread is here. But a member had to ask first. A mod should have created the thread and informed us so all questions could be answered. We, the users of the Toronto forums, were not asked first or consulted. I realize this is a private forum and the members don't have to be asked. I just think it's wise to do things that way :)

[current]

I like the changes because the web site is "SkyscraperCity" so most people are interested in high rise developments. Small developments like Umbra did not fit in with the high rise developments in the Development Forum. Umbra also did not fit in the general Toronto Forum because it is a development.

By having a third Forum "it helps us not forget about the smaller projects that are also changing our city for the better"(Jaye101) and helps to clarify the focus of the High Rise Development Forum to taller buildings, and keep the busy and popular Toronto Forum focused on non development issues.

I also like the way the Chicago Forums are organized. They call the Low Rise Development Forum the "Neighborhood Development News". This way smaller projects do not get lost in one large Development Forum and get better recognition in their own forum with more threads.

[valantino]

each section could use a shortcut or sticky on the top of the page to the other