Possibly rearrange the messageboards a bit?

[Unruly]

This may sound like I'm being difficult for the sake of being difficult, or just come off as nitpicky, but that's not really my intention. I just had a thought, and figured I'd throw it out here to see what other people thought of it.

Would it be possible to shift the closed playtest stuff all the way to the bottom of the messageboard listings once they've been closed for a few months or so? I just don't see the reason for the alpha and beta playtests of the core rules to be placed higher than stuff like Play-By-Post when the core rules have been out of playtesting for 4 years and pretty much no one has posted in those thread since release. The same can be said for the APG, UM, and UC playtests, though the time span is different.

I know I can just hide the topics, but even hidden they take up about two pages worth of scrolling. It's a minor annoyance, to be sure, but it's still an annoyance. I mean, why should I have to scroll past 30 dead sub-sections to reach one that's highly active? I would even say that maybe the old RPG Superstar stuff could use a shifting to the bottom as well, since there's stuff dating back to 2008 that hasn't been posted in in years as well, but at the same time some people are still posting in those old sections.

Bear in mind, I'm not, in any way, asking for things to be deleted. I'm simply asking for maybe a little bit of rearranging. Maybe create a special sub-section of Archived Playtests where all the finished playtests go?

It's not my website, and I'm a newcomer here, but I thought I would just toss my thoughts out there.

[Enlight_Bystand]

You can actually close stuff off at higher levels, so to clear out everything you want, you can close 'previous contests' under RPG superstar and 'older products' at the bottom of the Paizo Publishing page. This means that your two pages become two lines.

[Unruly]

Well then, forgive my ignorance.

I could have sworn that I had tried to do just that, and it didn't happen. I just went back and tried again, and I saw that it did, in fact, happen for a couple of them earlier but not for all of them. This time it worked for all of them. I'm going to assume that the reason it only partially worked earlier was because the script that handles it starts to bog down for me after hiding a few threads. After hiding 5-6 of them, it almost completely locks up and I have to refresh the page and start over. So I must have skipped them, or had them be the ones that caused the script to die on me.

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I already knew about closing them off and started doing this, but page load times, and the amount of forums that need to be closed off (there's a lot) made this solution a bit tricky.