The CT is working on making some changes to RYL to make things cleaner and more user friendly and one of the things we want to do is put the forum abbreviations in the title/description of the forum name. The goal of this is to make it easier for people understand the abbreviations and to reduce any confusion new members may have. This way there will also be one set abbreviation for all forums.
We would like to get the opinion of everyone to see which format is liked the best. There are 3 different ideas, please vote for the one you like the best
Thanks,
The CT
Option 1 - Abbreviation at the beginning of the title.
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Option 2 - Abbreviation at the end of the title.
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Option 3 - Abbreviation is included at the end of the forum description.
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Well it breaks my heart to see you this way,
The beauty in life, where's it gone?
And somebody told me you were doing okay,
Somehow I guess they were wrong.
Option 1 is way too distracting and confusing. Option 3 looks messy and is inefficient, and uses a lot of space for something that could be covered by 4 characters by putting it elsewhere.
I like number 2 the best because that is the standard for how abbreviations are written all over, not just RYL. When reading a book or publication that has an abbreviation the abbreviation is always presented immediately after the line it is abbreviating.
Thus number 2 is the only acceptable choice
Well it breaks my heart to see you this way,
The beauty in life, where's it gone?
And somebody told me you were doing okay,
Somehow I guess they were wrong.
Well it breaks my heart to see you this way,
The beauty in life, where's it gone?
And somebody told me you were doing okay,
Somehow I guess they were wrong.
But why? Option 2 is a standard for abbreviations everywhere.
Well it breaks my heart to see you this way,
The beauty in life, where's it gone?
And somebody told me you were doing okay,
Somehow I guess they were wrong.
Well it breaks my heart to see you this way,
The beauty in life, where's it gone?
And somebody told me you were doing okay,
Somehow I guess they were wrong.
“Never lose faith in yourself,
and never lose hope;
remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back,
there is still always hope.”
SD isn't the only forum that would get this, they all would. So it would look like
First Aid Advice (FAA)
Veteran's General (VG)
Eating Disorders (ED)
and so on and so forth.
Well it breaks my heart to see you this way,
The beauty in life, where's it gone?
And somebody told me you were doing okay,
Somehow I guess they were wrong.
It's just scrolling down and if passing by it it looks like SI. Probably just my mind. I don't think there's any need for the abbreviations after the forum title, it looks a bit untidy and not very easy on my eyes.
I think of all of them option 2 looks pretty tidy, or at the very least doesn't make it look any less tidy than it looks already.
I think that these are totally necessary, all the time I use a forum name abbreviation and someone goes "huh? what?" and not just new members, members that have been around for a while.
Well it breaks my heart to see you this way,
The beauty in life, where's it gone?
And somebody told me you were doing okay,
Somehow I guess they were wrong.
