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How come there's not one of these yet?

Surely it would fit in well with the 'Life' theme. We've got cars, sports, food, books and movies. Surely travel and holidays could fit in nicely.

Would easily be as busy as la cuisine.
 
I've been thinking we need one for a while. Not only is there a number of travel threads but it's also a subject that many people want advice/recommendations on.

We could have a forum dedicated to US road trips there's been so many of them :p
 
Hades said:
Didn't see many boat threads but we still ended up with one somehow :D
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And looking at the amount of posts it gets I would say, in my opinion of course, that that is a mistake.

Forums should only add new sub forums when enough posts crop up on the subject in the general chat to warrant one. By splitting them up you reduce the amount of people looking at them unless there are plenty of threads on the subject.

EG, when I come on the site I check out the console forum, phones tablets, books/tv/film, motors, motorsport and GD. If someone were to ask a question about a motherboard then I'm almost never going to see it, but fortunately there is plenty of traffic in the section and it gets answered and a thread continues.

If there was a travel section I probably wouldn't check it and so would never see someones question about staying in Menorca for example, or what a cruise is like. Since there are not many threads on the subject in GD, its not an in demand topic. Making its own sub forum would almost certainly end up with people asking questions and getting threds of maybe 5 replies because there isn't enough traffic rather than 25 because its on GD and lots of people see it.

Subsection with no traffic = graveyard, that means people either post there and get few or no answers/discussion or end up posting in the GD anyway just so that it gets seen.

That's all my opinion of course, but I've seen so many good forum communities go from fantastic (eg 4 forums) to dead (25) because the people running it expanded way too fast trying to have a sub forum for every possible thing when there was no demand.

For the most part OCUK gets it right I'd say.
 
We don't want to end up like pbnation. Besides, I agree there aren't enough travel threads to warrant a whole subforum. La cuisine works because people eat everyday. On the water? Well let's pretend that didn't happen.
 
I can never be bothered to browse cuisine - I'm not going out of my way to look at threads only on that. However I used to post in food related threads in GD occationally.

I think a travel forum would reduce participation in those threads in the same way.
 
Why not replace "On The Water" with a "Travel" subforum, give it a try and see how it goes?!?

Nothing to lose except an existing relatively dead subforum.
 
I don’t think that the number of travel threads justifies a new sub-forum. At least you get to see them here and are more likely to get a response in here then in some far off place.
 
I'd like the idea of replacing the on the water forum with a travel forum. It would also help to act as an archive of travel threads and make it an easy searching/reference point.
 
I don't see the point.

I want to read such topics in a general forum, rather than diversifying everything down into its own sub-forum.

I also used to read the odd cooking thread when it was posted in GD, I never bother to read the Cuisine forum though.
 
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