Silvia Bluejay

All the threads can be left unpinned and jumbled in one single forum, if the result is not too chaotic. My impression is that it would be so, and that people would start posting in the wrong threads and possibly causing some information to fail to reach its target. Once again, not a huge problem, but we're simply discussing so that we can try to make things as convenient as possible for both posters and readers.

Well, having to scroll down isn't the end of the world, it's an easily performed action both on a PC and on tablets and smartphones. Having a long list of pins and having to divide the forum into two subforums are two actions that reduce the immediacy for the reader, in two different ways. I guess our only option is to try and choose the format that annoys the lowest number of readers...

I stopped looking at and unsubscribed from the How Was Your Gig thread long ago as I don't like endless threads, as that thread is not easily searchable, and all the bands are thrown into it together. If I wanted to look for a certain gig by a certain band, I would have to read the thread backwards without having any idea whether the gig has been posted there and at what point in the sequence. I doubt that thread is a good substitute for what I'm trying to do here. The subforum solution would undoubtedly be the best, except that it's less immediate than the pinning, and may split the potential readers of the Gigs forum into those who go directly to Band Media Stuff or whatever we'd call it, and those who click on Gig List instead and don't bother with the other subforum. Not an easy one, I know. The pinning solution would be best for keeping readers together IMO, but definitely not if there are like 20 pinned band threads before we can even begin to see the gig list.

I've added this video to your thread under Gigs.

Keeping an eye on this. When you have agreed on some more details I'll pin this thread - or a new one - and tweet it to our followers.

That post is making my head hurt!

I wonder if I got the caption of the photo completely wrong when I uploaded it to Flickr or, more likely, Google search took the title of the Basschat thread and used it as the name of the image. Either way, you're No 2 in the thumbnail list on the normal search page, and still No 1 in the full image search results

Fantastic! Thanks

Oh, and add your BC name and Si's in the title, please?

Current gigs would be better, but the first post is OK as an introduction of the band (Clarky and Ou7shined have done more or less the same in their threads )

Music has no age!

Again, please add where and when if possible! Ta

Good stuff

Where/when were the photos taken, Clarky?

Excellent, and waay cool

Anyone mind if I unpin those two old threads from the top and start pinning your bands, just to see if it's manageable that way? (May only work for as long as we have a limited number of band threads, but at least it'll give us time to refine things )

Yay!!

[quote name='andydye' timestamp='1381139997' post='2234735'] a sub-forum would be a superb extension of this idea! [/quote] We'll definitely have to see how things evolve, Andy. I thought about the separate forum but we need to be sure we don't end up splitting this forum's audience. I'll keep an eye on this

Incidentally, if posting gets chaotic, I'll ask the admins to create a separate subforum for the live stuff threads. However, there is the risk that visitors won't bother checking out both the gigs list and the live stuff forum, hence my initial idea of having both kinds of posts in the same section.

LOL Yes, aren't they well matched! We'll have to get Damien the drummer to wear one too

Of course you guys can start your own threads! The Dani Molino one is just to show how it would work. Thank you all for your replies!

I've just started a new thread in this style, with the most recent photos I have of two gigs (Happy Jack's acoustic ones with Dani Molino), just to show how the new threads would look. If I had video, I would edit the relevant post and add an appropriate link.

Catch, London, 02/10/2013