Restructuring of the areas

Willkommen in der OMSI-WebDisk!
Als Gast kannst du nur Inhalte in deiner ausgewählten Sprache sehen. Registrierte Nutzer können die Sichtbarkeit anderer Sprachen in ihrem Kontrollzentrum aktivieren, weitere Infos hier.
Alle Themen sind in den Foren mit einer Sprachflagge gekennzeichnet: = Englisch [EN], = Deutsch [DE], = Französisch [FR]. Wenn du die angegebene Sprache nicht beherrschst, schreibe auf Englisch!
  • Dear users,


    in the next days there will be some changes on this platform. You surely expect the announced new categories already. Now the time has finally come: The forum will be reworked! As this can't be done all at once, we are planning the restructuring in several phases, which will be worked through one after the other and will affect the daily business to different degrees.


    The team of OMSI experts and the administration has been working together in the last few weeks to develop a detailed concept and prepare everything so that the restructuring can take place during ongoing operations. The alternative would have been to close the platform for days or even weeks, which is of course out of the question.

    Phase 1: Forum

    The current categorization in the forum is based on the fact that the WebDisk used to have a small community. Since the closure of the MOF, however, we have seen a sharp increase in the number of users and thus much more community activities, topics and posts. The old structure was no longer up to this. We are planning the following concrete measures:

    • Better sorting of forum categories
    • setting up collective threads for commercial AddOns and reworking the "Commercial DLCs" section
    • Support forum as a central point for all requests for help from players
    • Help forum as new central contact point for developers seeking help, with various subcategories
    • Freeware area, where you can present your WIP and completed projects. This area is also explicitly intended for discussion threads, because the comment system in the filebase cannot be a complete replacement for a thread.
    • Minor changes in the community area
    • Introducing labels, which makes sorting, filtering and finding threads much easier. A small foretaste of this can be found at the Questions&Suggestions forum.

    During the restructuring we unfortunately have to limit your access temporarily to avoid conflicts. It is possible that during the measures your threads or posts are no longer visible, are moved or you can no longer write posts. After the restructuring, however, everything should be available again as usual.


    Please don't report threads or posts concerning wrong areas during the restructuring. We are doing our best to get the forum, the heart of the community, back into full operation as soon as possible.


    As soon as it starts, we will inform you here, in this thread.

    Phase 2: Wiki & FAQ

    Besides the forum and download portal there are other areas which are slightly revised. We are currently discussing how we can extend the Wiki, e.g. by adding new categories and instructions. We will also establish a forum-wide FAQ to replace the numerous announcement threads. Be curious about this feature! There will also be a uniform set of rules. Don't worry! We still follow a liberal philosophy, but the previous rules cannot be found centrally, which makes it difficult, especially for beginners, to get a foothold here in the WebDisk.

    Phase 3: Download portal (outlook)

    Also the categories in the download portal lead again and again to confusion and contain double entries. We would like to dedicate ourselves to this in the medium term. In view of the mass of entries we are still in the planning phase. Further information will follow after the completion of phase 1 and 2.


    We are pleased that you are using OMSI WebDisk to provide content for the community.


    Best regards,

    Lµkas (Co-Administration)

  • Anzeige
  • Hey,


    i will adjust and change the rights a little bit in the next minutes. Please don't be surprised if this may lead to some restrictions from time to time.

    I will inform you here after completion.


    Please be patient :)

    Greeting S-H

    Edit: Work is done

  • Now that we've already started with the first subforums during the first night, we can now ceremonially open the new area! :cork:


    Over the weekend, the remaining threads will also move. Please note that temporary closures in the old areas during the weekend may also lead to restrictions during the day. The community area will remain open the whole time.


    Subforums that have already moved completely will remain closed until they are finally deleted.

    From now on you are welcome to explore and fill the new subforums!

  • Dear users,


    the WebDisk team is finished with the new categorizations faster than expected! A very special thanks goes to Schleswig-Holstein and Lµkas, for this. Within one week they have dealt with the administration area of our forum software, created the new areas, set rights and finally moved all existing topics from the old forums to the new ones.


    A small summary:

    • Polls are now published more prominent in a special created Poll forum. You can subscribe to the forum with the following button at the top right bar and never miss a new poll again:
    • The Support area is the new central contact point for support requests of all kinds.
    • Everything from and for developers is located in the new Help area. You may already know the division from the Official OMSI Forum.
    • In the new Freeware area developers present their projects, both WIP projects and completed downloads. In addition, there are new support collection threads for maps, vehicles & Co.
    • There also is a Repaint area. Please take care not to open a thread for every single repaint, but to follow the idea of collecting threads. This means, that this area is basically meant for users who have made many repaints and want to list them separately, e.g. by license plate number or city.

    Feedback to the new categories is welcome! Please take part in the survey!


    Within the next days we will continue with the second phase as planned. But this does not require any major changes, so the forum and the download area will remain open during the whole time.


    With kind regards

    James, on behalf of the WebDisk administration team

  • Dear users,


    we also change the way in which announcements are published. We will no longer use the announcement forum, but instead expand the article system so that all important information can be cound there in the future. You may have noticed that the forum is not optimal for multilingual announcements (Opening a single thread for each language is a lot of work for the administration and confuses the users who are multilingual).


    All further information can be found here, in the new area. We hope that the changes will help you to find important information faster and also help beginners to find their way around this complex platform.


    Now there is finally a FAQ section with many important questions and answers about the WebDisk platform itself.


    With kind regards

    James

  • Hey,


    In the smooth transition between phase 2 and phase 3 we have now started with phase 3.

    The new categories of the filebase have been created. However, we have about 3000 files, which we now have to touch and move again.

    We will start moving the files bit by bit, so please don't be surprised if certain subcategories are not visible for a while.

    Most of the bigger changes we do anyway in the middle of the night.


    Greeting S-H

  • Hey,


    last night and this night all categories except Repaints have moved.

    The new categories are already fully unlocked and should be used immediately :)

    The old Repaint-Categories will be moved to the new Repaint-Categories step by step. But since we are talking about nearly 2.800 files, this will take more than 2 days.


    Greeting S-H

  • Dear users,


    we would like to bring you up to date:

    With today's move of the wiki articles to the new wiki categories, one of the last milestones of the entire restructuring has been completed.

    Only one single point is still missing:


    Zitat von James

    There will also be a uniform set of rules.


    We hope that all the changes of the last weeks and months have contributed a big part to a better overview on the webdisk! :)

    Thank you very much for your continued loyalty!


    Your WebDisk Team