The forums are getting more and more cluttered and the search tools is becoming more and more useless.

I can think of a very simple way of making things significantly easier.

Here's an example on a working forums:

http://forums.bit-tech.net/forumdisplay.php?f=4

All threads are required to have a Prefix, which makes it significantly easier when browsing for a certain topic.


For example, the "Interior, Audio, Electronics" forum is filled with lots of info, but it's such a broad forum that things get lost, having Audio, Interior, Electronics prefixes would make it so much easier to just find something relating to Electronics.

 

^^great idea

 

is vbulletin 3.7.5 capable of doing that?? i dont see it in the list of features, though i could be missing it

 

It's an add-on:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=123033

 

my interwebs skills sucks

then yeah, i agree in certain areas of the forum this could be quite useful. in other areas, it could require heavy moderation to keep things from becoming even more confusing

 

It can be turned on/off depending on the forum area