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Perhaps I should further explain the reasoning behind the apparent merging of Creator's Cosmos and the three or four forums that it had entailed, as well as the addition of the other professionals currently belonging to our message board.
First, I hope that Steve Lightle, Dave Cockrum, Chip Wallace, and Tom Feister don't feel that they have been dissed or slighted in any way. The decision to downsize was a tough one and many, including myself were worried that someone may take it wrong.
The addition of other creators to the board presented a potential problem of adding more forums. Which would have increased the time and energy to maintain them and made the other not-so-Legion related forums push farther down the page.
The maintenance issue is due to the fact that even TnT's post-less board had 6 files associated with it and caused at least a 30 second stop in the board's maintenance routines. During the nights when my online time is limited that adds up. Then, the boards that did have posts would taken even longer and even though the program is capable of processing 200 threads per 30 seconds, the forums of less than 200 still took at least that amount of time to process. That means a forum with more posts at least seems to take up less time.
It became evident to me that in order to keep this board workable for my needs, I could not add more forums unless they would produce enough traffic to sustain them, thus making the effort bearable. No new forums seemed unfair to the newer professionals willing to spend time interacting with us.
The question as to how to handle the situation was raised in a chat about message board issues. And, the idea to merge the creator forums arose from there.
The idea has a lot of potential. A forum no longer focused on one person, but on a number of professionals has more with which to draw upon. The one sole creator no longer has the pressure of maintaining a constant presense, yet can still use the platform to discuss a wider range of topic rather than just their Legion work. Or at least that's how I like to envision this forum.
I'm sorry. I wish I was in a position to offer forums to each an every creator that's joined us here. It was my orginial intent when I first set up this board, but the reality of this site has shown me that it's not possible at this time.
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