[M II A II R II K]

The San Francisco forum is basically dead except for 2 or 3 threads which doesn't justify it's existence which prompts cancelling it, and L.A. as well as Sacramento is slow too.

I was thinking of merging this entire section into 1 single California forum, but if enough people still want to continue the L.A. and Sacramento section that will still be considered.

[pizzaguy]

Put it back the way it used to be.

[Echo Park]

i would have been split on this but seeing as how the local forums are dying out, may as well merge them.

[peanut gallery]

Whoa, I think you're way overreacting to the recent slowdown in the SF subforum. It's basically due to the absence of a few of the locals lately. All the SF construction threads are slow too. I chalk that up to people having difficulty getting into SSP. It coincided with that. Get the site functioning normally again and you'll see the SF forum return to normal. It seems a lot of the SF forumers can't or don't keep trying to get in if they get bumped.

[Gordo]

Whoa, I think you're way overreacting to the recent slowdown in the SF subforum. It's basically due to the absence of a few of the locals lately. All the SF construction threads are slow too. I chalk that up to people having difficulty getting into SSP. It coincided with that. Get the site functioning normally again and you'll see the SF forum return to normal. It seems a lot of the SF forumers can't or don't keep trying to get in if they get bumped.

100% agreed. I only check the site maybe 20% as much as I used to, since most of the time I get the "Too busy" message, which pisses me off and keeps me from checking again for a day or two.

[JDRCRASH]

Yeah i'm getting sick of that High Traffic Load message EVERY SINGLE morning.

[J_Taylor]

Yeah i'm getting sick of that High Traffic Load message EVERY SINGLE morning.

I will third or fourth that;)

[innov8]

Yes, the High Traffic message has been happening to me for at least the last
month. After I get the message a couple times, I just quite tring till
the next day. That might have something to do with the slow traffic.

[ltsmotorsport]

The high traffic thing only blocks you out for like 5 or 10 minutes, although it is very annoying.

[Fusey]

I want a San Diego subforum even if no one uses it... again. :haha:

[JDRCRASH]

The high traffic thing only blocks you out for like 5 or 10 minutes, although it is very annoying.

I usually check back within half an hour.

[CHapp]

Please retain the status quo.

[ocman]

The problem is the existence of the city compilation forum. There's no reason for it to exist outside of it's own city/state forums.

[CHapp]

:previous: I raised this disconnect between the area forums and their Tall Buildings somewhere in Forum Issues a while back & was informed by an Administrator that they lacked the manpower to make links. But does the California Forum lack that manpower? I wouldn't think so, At least we have a band aid approach at our disposal: all it would take is a one-post sticky thread, occasionally updated, that lists our current Tall projects. Of course that thread would best be maintained (not even necessarily compiled) by a moderator. Strangely enough, there's only one moderator listed for the Cali forum: fflint (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/member.php?u=75), who resigned from his duties some time ago. On the other hand, what about moderator J Church (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/member.php?u=387), location San Francisco?

May I also take this opportunity to point out to the gentlemen in charge that the various California projects listed in the Skyscraper Construction (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/forumdisplay.php?f=103) and Midrise Construction (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/forumdisplay.php?f=361) forums (we don't seem to have any Supertalls ;)) are well visited and kept up to date. :yes:

[ozone]

Why not just two sub-sections: Northern California and Southern California?

[JDRCRASH]

^
Because people can get too technical about what qualifies as NoCal or SoCal.

[M II A II R II K]

^
Because people can get too technical about what qualifies as NoCal or SoCal.

I guess that would be a problem.

- Merging it back to the way it was, but in that case what would work better is merging it back but have a seperate megathreads sub-forum under it to free up space on the main page and generate more topics which would take place in the sub-forum.

Especially if forumers in those cities mostly migrate to the stickies, they wouldn't really need their city forums and the new megathreads section would more than accomodate that as an outlet for those threads and potentially many more.

- Other options include a Local conversion for any of the cities.

- Chopping a city or 2 and collapsing them back into the main Cali forum.

[M II A II R II K]

Anyway there's probably a more likely option, since the NW is even more dead than this then the merger can take place between NW and California.

To create a brand new Pacific Coast States forum, where the active enough city forums would remain under it and the dead ones chopped.

[nequidnimis]

I would agree with you. Many of us have been using City Compilations for San Francisco. That is quite busy.

[CHapp]

By contrast I hardly ever go to City Compilations to check out the San Francisco news. As I said, I feel there's a total disconnect between it and the Bay Area section.

Doesn't mean a thing though. I expressed my views a while ago, and as far as I'm concerned MARK & Co should do whatever they deem fit.