looking for group forum

I have been trying to find a couple of players for a group for a while now. I find that almost as soon as I post in my FATE LFP post, it is immediately buried by posts from 80 pathfinder or DandD games. While I love that this community is thriving so, I would also like to see some organization to the looking for forums. How about some division by game in the forum? DanD, Pathfinder, FATE etc having their own looking for section in the forums?

So you want Fate DnD PF WoD and General sub forums?

Yeah in the looking for player/group forums... I think it would make it easier to post/search for games there.

Part of this is just the nature of the forum front page. Everything gets buried in LFP. OTOH you can always create an actual LFG listing for your campaign and list FATE as the system.

I have done that. Just making a suggestion. I just felt that perhaps a little bit of organisation in the forum would be helpful.

I agree will, the forum structure here is in need of help. But, only if you look at it from an end user position. I haven't been here very long so I'm not sure how things have progressed, but I think this site was initially a support page for roll20 and not nessesarilly a roleplayers page. However, it seems to have worked its way into being both. A better, in my opinion, way to handle the traffic this site generates would be to set up a bulletin board. Similar to thetangledweb.net. Again in though, the two sites serve different functions. I find it very hard to sort through the forum for topics. Especially since there is only one search field. I had trouble after posting a LDG campaign advertisement. My actual campaign listing would show in my notifications when people responded, but I couldn't find them on my campaign page. I didn't know that there were two pages for my campaign. Trying to to find an old post when you can't remember exactly what it was called is very hard in the forum pages. Just my three and half cents worth.

I agree, it needs subforums. Even if for not each game name (that would be long and some hardly used). Perhaps LFG sorted by genre? A subforum of Fantasy D&D/Fantasy Other/SciFi/Horror/Post Apoc, etc. And I'd kill a box of kittens for a search function on each forum area...trying to find things in say API forum is near impossible when the only search is site wide, and it returns 90% results that have nothing to do with what your looking for based on your keywords.

William R. said: I agree, it needs subforums. I think a little organization would be good for the LFG forums too. However, I'd break it down based on end goal instead of genre. One forum for GMs advertising games, another for players looking for a group and then a catch-all miscellaneous forum for the more esoteric categories like creating Roll20 communities, guilds and the "5 players looking for a GM" posts.

Dave D. said: William R. said: I agree, it needs subforums. I think a little organization would be good for the LFG forums too. However, I'd break it down based on end goal instead of genre. One forum for GMs advertising games, another for players looking for a group and then a catch-all miscellaneous forum for the more esoteric categories like creating Roll20 communities, guilds and the "5 players looking for a GM" posts. Agreed wholeheartedly. Players outnumber GM's several to one & should not have their "looking for..." posts be crammed into the same forum. For one, a GM looking for players forum could significantly cut down on the flood of "single player LFG" posts in lfg since many of them could simply post to a GM's LFP threads that match their interest.

Yes.