Should Oakland-Fremont-Hayward area be a separate sub-forum? (San Diego, San Jose: living in, beach)

[Exult.Q36]

Dallas & Fort Worth have separate forum why not oakland and San Fransico

[Administrator]

Originally Posted by artemis78

What about adding a separate poll with the "combine all three" option to see how it plays (both here and in the SJ forum, and maybe even in the CA forum)? Kettlepot has a good point about the all-or-nothing approach.

Thanks!

I don't mind adding such a poll if people vote the San Francisco/Oakland split down.

[artemis78]

I think the issue is that the current poll is a choice between two versus three forums, so there's no way to vote for just one forum. (For instance, some of the folks above have noted that as long as San Jose is separate, they think Oakland should be separate too; but if San Jose is rolled in, they support a single forum.) The current poll doesn't get at this---I think it needs three options:

- Have three separate forums (Oak, SF, SJ)
- Have two separate forums (Oak/SF, SJ)
- Have one single forum (Oak/SF/SJ)

We won't be able to get at that third option from a yes or no vote on the current poll.

[ALX8725]

Originally Posted by footballer0607

We should have an SF-Peninsula Forum, a San Jose/South Bay forum, and an Oakland/East Bay forum, or something like that.

i like this

[ALX8725]

East Bay should really have it's own thread titled "East Bay"

[baybook]

While I would vote for the entire Bay Area. SF and the East Bay seem way more tied together than SF/East Bay and South Bay. After all, we used to share an area code. (Sf and East Bay that is)

[kgbnsf]

I didn't even notice that there was a separate San Jose forum until I started reading these posts. I just assumed "San Francisco" was the Bay Area. There should be just one Bay Area forum: San Francisco or SF Bay Area. We're too intertwined to have separate forums. I don't want to have to read two or three forums just to read Bay Area posts.

[Administrator]

Originally Posted by kgbnsf

I don't want to have to read two or three forums just to read Bay Area posts.

Please note that we have a have a feature that lets you see mutliple forums of your choice on one page: Subscribed Forums.

[fizbin]

Originally Posted by Administrator

Please note that we have a have a feature that lets you see mutliple forums of your choice on one page: Subscribed Forums.

Thanks - that helps a lot.

It does not stop having to post a question on multiple threads if the subject pertains to and you want input from folks in both areas.

Edit: I also noticed that the thread preview feature (where you can see a chunk of the text of the initial post of the thread by hovering your mouse pointer over the thread title) does not work when looking at the combined subscribed forums list.

[sonarrat]

Looks like it was narrowly defeated - and rightly so IMO. There are better solutions than we have now, but further dividing the userbase and confusing newbies isn't going to help.