The new forums

[oomaumau04]

Why do we have new forums? Isn't the gen. board enough to cover those other 2? Now we just have to have light, casual conversation here?

[Jmom1010]

I'm confused too.

[oomaumau04]

Maybe I'm one of those crazy people who doesn't like change :)

[Brianna]

I don't particularly like the change either.

[Tristy]

I'm not so much a fan of change either...... but I did get use to the board changes so maybe I'll get use to the forum changes. Although most my post about everything will probably still be in this forum

[StElmosFire]

Well I think it's to help the new members put their questions where they will be answered and for us to just yes have light casual conversation here. No debating. Debates are still where they were.
I think it's a great idea.

[RedheadbyChoice]

The plan is/was to separate actual breastfeeding questions from the 'community' type chit chat that we have here. That way, say someone wants to help answer just BF questions, they wouldn't need to wade through all the posts about everything else (that we love to have here! :)) to find those posts.

We're still seeing how it's going to work.

Any suggestions? Comments?

[Jacksmommy]

I rather liked having the breastfeeding and parenting questions on this board. It brought balance to the board to have some chit chat here as well - made it just like normal mom conversations to have a little bit of everything. Sometimes when we have issuse to talk about it was nice to also be distracted by a post of cute baby pictures or whatever else. Now with the way it's seperated it feels more like this board is just fluffy and so then not particularly important and the bfing and parenting board are exclusively for those issues which, I don't know, feels more like work I guess. But that's just me. Maybe I'll feel differently once I get used to it.

[RedheadbyChoice]

Like I said, we're seeing how it works. I wonder, too:

1--are posts looking for info going to get lost, because people aren't sure where to put them?
2--will our community be less, because of not knowing where to post? Like a MIL issue that would have previously been here, but it also has a parenting question in it. That sort of thing. And then the support that would be given with a larger readership?

Keep the thoughts/suggestions coming, ladies!

Or, if you don't feel comfortable posting them, my PM box is always open. :)

[madelsmama]

I think our gen board community feel is gone. :( And the board now moves slower. than. ever.

However, I've noticed a lot more newbies posting in the breastfeeding questions forum since it's been split off. And I like that the newborn/adoptive breastfeeding forum is gone and converted into the breastfeeding forum. I always cringed when I noticed a struggling mom had posted in the newborn forum and no one noticed due to slow traffic.

I wonder if the General Breastfeeding board, as it was pre-split, intimidated some new members due to all of our chummy chit-chat. ??

So, while I was/still am a bit irritated at the changes somewhat, I can see some benefit to it as well.

[Jmom1010]

The plan is/was to separate actual breastfeeding questions from the 'community' type chit chat that we have here. That way, say someone wants to help answer just BF questions, they wouldn't need to wade through all the posts about everything else (that we love to have here! :)) to find those posts.

We're still seeing how it's going to work.

Any suggestions? Comments?


I totally understand that reasoning. But the board was not so busy that posts fall off page 1 quickly. And with everything being lumped together there was more traffic on the board.

I guess I'll see how it goes, but I have a hard time finding the threads I am in now!

[oomaumau04]

I don't know...I don't really visit the new forums. I hardly have time to visit this one anymore, so now I feel kind of bad that there are moms with questions that I'm not even reading because I only have time for one forum. But that's just me. I'm probably the only one who is dumb like that. :) Lol

[sweetkisses]

I think our gen board community feel is gone. :( And the board now moves slower. than. ever.

This is how I feel. And I personally don't like jumping back and forth between so many forums. I haven't been on much at all lately b/c it is soooo slow.

But.....if more new members are being drawn to posting in the breastfeeding forum then it may be a good change.

On the other hand I think it helps for others (new members) to read some of the small talk. It helps them get to know us better and feel confident in our advice. With the boards so seperated they may never venture over to the general boards, where we really get to know each other.

[pumpkinhead7]

I don't really like it either and had my input been asked for I would have said as much. Respectfully, in the future it would be really nice to at least be informed of the change and the reasoning behind it rather than just seeing new forums and wonder what the heck is going on.


I understand our input isn't really wanted, but just being informed would be nice.

[pumpkinhead7]

My suggestion? Make it all one big forum and dispense with all of the offshoots. It could be called "Breastfeeding ChitChat: Questions and answers and conversation from moms who have been there and back again" or something like that. It's less intimidating, there'll be more traffic and no one will have to try to decide where their question f its best.

As I new mom, if I wanted a list of Frequently ASked Breastfeeding Questions, all I had to do was google. That's not what I want or need from a support board.

[RedheadbyChoice]

Thanks for your 2nd post, Orange Butt. (and may I say how oh so very happy I am to be able to type that here? *kiss*) I was just about to post, wanting your input and what you'd do to change it.

PM me if there's more.

~ging

[pumpkinhead7]

Sorry, I meant to include it all in the first post, but the cream cheese, bagel eating, 2 year old that I belong to decided that said cream cheese would look mahvelous on the laptop screen. He's a treat.

[RedheadbyChoice]

;)

[Amy_G_]

I'm not really sure that Sassy understands that there are people here that post only on general with some looks at support boards; and those that post only on debates with a few that also post on the support boards. For instance, when Sassy has an announcement (all the way back to the map stuff), or the discussion a while back on debates about the LC forum, and then the new forums and changing the names of the forums, that was posted on debates, not general.
???

Sassy may think that the women on the debate board discussing an issue speak for all of bf.com, when the women on the general baord have their own opinions.

It was suggested on the debate board to take the chit chat out of the general board and make a breastfeeding question only board in the hopes that the women who get advice on the LC board would also post there and be able to get clarification of what the LC's say. Some of the women on that thread post on general, but the general board posters should have been able to weigh in on that vote.

I see that the more boards we have, the slower each individual board will be. the feel of the general board comraderie is gone, and the other boards don't really have a feel. the other boards may be getting some newbies to jump in that didn't before. They may not have posted before because they weren't sure where to put parenting, pregnancy, and breastfeeding questions cause the forum titles didn't necessarily fit what they were looking for. I think if activity doesn't pick up to a reasonable pace, the forums should be recombined and let the chit chat stay.

the LC's are not weighing in on the ask a mom board, and the questions on the LC board are not being reposted for more info on the mom to mom board either.

[Nipple_nectar]

I don't really like it either and had my input been asked for I would have said as much. Respectfully, in the future it would be really nice to at least be informed of the change and the reasoning behind it rather than just seeing new forums and wonder what the heck is going on.


I understand our input isn't really wanted, but just being informed would be nice.

My two cents is I think it's a mess :::sigh:::

Why did we need a change here? I'll admit that we definitely needed to combine the newborn forum with the GB but that is about it.

My opinion is that we should change it back to just the GB~ get rid of the little splits made~ I think you are separating the community where it was not needed:(