[alanchrishughes]

@lincme.co.uk I agree with you on basically all of this, but there is still the major organizational problem with the way things are setup now, like look at the url of this page and how overly complicated that is. Like I said before I agree with you that renaming “forums” to “groups” is a great idea and that could really cut down the url/organization of things to something much easier for non-techies to follow like

thewebsite.com/groups/the-group-name/the-topic-title

An off topic suggestion, but I think non-techies are thrown off by having to register for websites and checking their email, verifying, password, etc. they don’t care enough and just leave. Most blogs don’t require you to register, at most you just have to enter a captcha, maybe having an option for group creators to allow non-registered visitors comment on topics would increase interactivity. Just a thought.