Hello. A new forum structure has been developed and will be implemented in a week from now.

Our Goals

• Simplify the website structure to make it more intuitive for newcomers.
• Do not break well-established communities..
• Do not lose valuable data.
  

We are eager to hear your thoughts about the upcoming change.

...so BBV4Life is about live Poker venues now?

Yikes somehow the description got replaced with the one for Venues & Communities!

There is still no mention of what happens to Other Gambling Games. This never got resolved in the mod forum discussion.

For the Game of Thrones subforum I think the 14k post TV thread is worth retaining and should move to OOTV, it still gets bumped to discuss future spinoffs. The rest can be archived. But this is just my opinion, I think 27offsuit should weigh in.

Title change of Poker Theory to include GTO is perfect and will make BQ infinitely more useful

Who can read that tiny crap?

Big plans; small product.

Always has been

Shitcan "Politics & Society," re-open/unlock "Politics," invite back the 200+ high quality posters your predecessors drove off. It was like the third highest trafficked forum on this site at the time it was closed. Bring back the original moderation as well.

morph help us! bbv4l is seeming undescribable. it should have its own title

if anything you should keep the 2+2 communites and put that's what she said and youtube, podcasts and twitch streams under it.

I also see OOT still there... what is this?!

Create a specific covid/madrobin forum, then close it ?

Seeing what's busy, what works, and what needs re-organizing was long overdue

It'll take some getting used to for my regular stops, but I think this will improve the forum experience and be easier for new people to navigate

new CONSPIRACY THEORY forum????

This is such a massive mistake, at least in the way it is listed in the screenshot. I understand that current volume in many forums is by my estimation ~10% of what it was a decade ago, but merging very distinct communities and expanding the breadth of each forum is not the way to do it. Instead of merging micro, small, mid, and high stakes together, just keep a minimum of 2 stake levels for each type of games (Micro stakes to 1/2 and 2/4+) and for nearly dead formats like SNGs merge them with the most similar game type(s). At a minimum these are the categories that should exist for game formats:

Online NL up to 1/2
Online NL 2/4+
Live SSNL
Live HSNL
PLO up to 1/2 (including any Omaha variants like 5C, 6C, double board, etc)
PLO 2/4+ (including any Omaha variants like 5C, 6C, double board, etc)
Low Stakes MTTs/SNGs
High Stakes MTTs/SNGs
Low stakes "Other" games
High stakes "Other" games

I have never really been a member of any of the NL forums, but I've been reading both the SSPLO and HSPLO forums for over a decade and both have (had) very distinct communities with minimal crossover between the posters in each forum. Merging all of the communities of each game type together is not going to revive activity in the new subforums, it will only exacerbate the rate at which the forums overall dry up.

I'm glad to see these forums getting reorganized and restructured. The problem with having 80 something subforums is that it dilutes traffic and makes the site hard to navigate. Newcomers see the endless barrage of forums and their eyes glaze over.

Most people frequent a handful of subforums and never experience the rest of 2+2. I understand categorization improves quality, but at a certain point it just gets ridiculous. 2+2 is filled with graveyard forums with only a handful of posts a year that no one will ever see. There doesn't need to be this much specification.

This seems like a good step in the right direction!

I like it. But inks to popular sub forums should still exist.

rly looking forward to WCGRiger updates

NVGB is going back to NVG?

I can see you buried History. But saving 4L, makes me smile again.

Thank goodness. This website has been stuck in 1996 for 25 years.

2006, here we come!

As an old fart I kinda want to hate on any changes, but honestly that looks good to me. Some pretty clever ideas in there as well.

fewer sub-forums

Excited about your purchase of this beautiful old girl. Kind of like an old sailboat, she needs a little TLC. But her bones are sturdy.

Why on earth is the image in OP hosted on an external image host instead of locally?