Oh, I wouldn't mind going ahead and consolidating at least now, whether or not it had any effect on our resource drain. I already said I think Quotables should close with Elena's post of the One True Buffy Quote. Buffy Spoilers Light can obviously go. Then we just have to decide whether to dump Previously or the main topic - I'd vote Previously. That'd be satisfying on a cleaning-up-the-house level, at least.

We'd have to do another proposal, though.

A lot of natter moved from Natter to Bitches in the last few months, particularly when there was a lot of interpersonal disruption. That said, I don't think the overall level of natterish posting has gone down in any way. There's a ton of natter going on in Lit, F2F, and sundry other threads.

It does begin to sound to me like we need a dedicated server, and that's a sizeable piece of change to drum up. We need a sugar daddy.

Then we just have to decide whether to dump Previously or the main topic - I'd vote Previously.

Except that Angel's about to go into syndication, and I think people were expecting to use Previously for that.

I admit, I just feel like since May (in fact, since we knew there would be no S8), we've been saying "we have to redo the thread hierarchy now that Buffy's off the air," and since May, it's been put off until August. Now we're saying that for technical reasons, it should wait until October.

Maybe I'm misreading things, but I think we're actually not putting off the restructuring of our threads until October, we're talking about putting off talk of a new TV thread until we've restructured.

I think we're actually not putting off the restructuring of our threads until October, we're talking about putting off talk of a new TV thread until we've restructured.

This makes sense to me.

Except that Angel's about to go into syndication, and I think people were expecting to use Previously for that.

Oh, good point. I'd forgotten Angel doesn't have its own Previously thread.

...and I just realized this conversation is already happening in Bureaucracy, so I'll move it there.

We've been saying since May that we need to restructure now that there's no more new Buffy. But there hasn't been any real discussion of what to do. Based on Kristen's comments, techno-not-really-literate I assume that restructuring now, especially if we add attractive new threads, could wreak havoc on the board.

I'm suggesting that we use this time to figure out what we really want to do and where we want the board to go.

IOW, my answer to

I admit, I just feel like since May (in fact, since we knew there would be no S8), we've been saying "we have to redo the thread hierarchy now that Buffy's off the air," and since May, it's been put off until August. Now we're saying that for technical reasons, it should wait until October.

is, let's start planning now with a target completion date in mind.

It does begin to sound to me like we need a dedicated server

Right now, we don't know if it's a coding issue, or if our usage is really too high for a shared server.

Until we know one way or another, I agree that we should table this proposal.

Except that Angel's about to go into syndication, and I think people were expecting to use Previously for that.

Thank you. To be honest, the whole option of bumping Previously ticks me off a little. I mean, sure, always been a Buffy and Prev thread. But that hasn't stopped discussion in either thread. Prev is a syndication thread, and there's no reason to make it just Angel discussion. The entire point of it is to discuss already aired non-NAFDA episodes, and as both Angel and Buffy fit into the category now, I'd think that it would be more prudent to keep it, as it's functionality will certainly not suffer.

Hasn't all of Australia seen the finale now?