I don't know about you but I'm hoping that the hottest part of summer is now behind us. We have been working on a lot of fairly major updates to the main site that we hope to launch in October, but it's now time for us to start making a number of changes and adjustments to the Forums as we begin to prepare for the coming season.

One thing we are thinking over is the idea of having a section of the Forums set aside just for TRIP REPORTS (as we have temporarily set it up here).

Of course, it's Forum members that will be using this during the coming season & so we would very much welcome any feedback at all that you might have now - so please do let us know what you think.

Good idea or not?
TRs should be kept within the main Snow Talk section?
Any other comments?

We'll see what kind of response we get from everyone in the next few weeks before making a final decision on whether to keep this or not.

Look out for some other Forums changes/improvements in early September.

Thank you.

I like the idea of them being in the main snow section, but I reckon it would work pretty well having it's own area too. Fence sitter? Maybe

Sounds like a decent idea to me.

Forgot to say SJ1, that new stuff for the site you showed me the other week looked really excellent. Hope it all comes together well

Agreed, you guys take on more & more every year. Gambatte!

Not sure about this myself. I suppose when there are so many posts in winter it might be a good idea to have them in their own space as such.

I'm for anything that takes the "bulge" out of the Snow Talk General Discussions area. Not sure that this will be it, but we'll know by the end of next season!

SJ1, if it's practical, to kick off you could move my TR: Japan 2007 thread to the new section.

A section for TRs sounds like a great idea. I think they're fun to read and giving them their own section would probably encourage more people to write them. Of course you'll get snow-related TRs and non-snowrelated so I don't know how you'd want to organize them...

I'm not sure about this one either. It sounds like a good idea but if there are too many separate forums people might not bother to check all of them. Then again, as the snow ones are at the top, and this is the purpose of the site it might be a good thing to encourage more snow talk.

Good idea I reckon.

good idea. Not thought about this one. But good idea.

Too many fora are going to Balkanise this space. Bad idea.

here's one:
Snow Talk
General Talk. <-- sounds better than General Off Topic no?

Thanks for all the comments, any more very welcome.

Are you planning to split the snow related TRs from the general TRs SJ or everything goes in this forum section?

tsondaboy, I suppose the idea at this stage is for the snow related TRs to be here (this new forum under SNOW) and other ones can go in the JAPAN TRAVEL or OVERSEAS TRAVEL sections - of course we can adjust and change depending on what is best and what people want.

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Well that has confused me!

Bollocks soub, not in here you didn't :p

You asked us what we would like. I'll take the TV, 4 pints of Sam Smiths and a cornish pastie. Please