Anyone have a suggestion of exactly how to layout the video section(s) of Smashboards? If it is solid we will implement. The issue was, previously, there was so much subdivision that the video subforums had close to zero traffic and most of the subforums only had 2-3 threads posted per month - which is NOT enough for something to warrant an entire subforum.
Also, I hope everyone is aware that this exists:
http://smashboards.com/media/
We don't need a section for Tournament Videos. They should just be included with Tournament Results. When a TO makes a Tournament Results thread, it can show a little check box saying "Videos", and they can check it if their thread has videos. This will allow people to search the Tournament Results section and filter threads based on whether or not they have videos.
^This.
The media section looks like it could have a lot of potential. All of the media that is submitted should be tagged appropriately with keywords such as character and player names. That way someone can search "Mango Jigglypuff" and get all of the videos with Mango's Jigglypuff, whether that is his combo video, a full tournament set vs. Armada, or just a 15 second clip. Organizing videos like this will make it a lot less critical to organize them into subsections like how it currently is. You have a section for barlw videos and it gets broken down in the same way as Melee videos. It'd be much simpler to just have a Combo/Music video section, and let the user check a box for which games to include. This also allows more complex searches for people who may be searching for a certain player's content in multiple games, or you may just vaguely remember a video by the song name and the character and can only use that data to search for a long lost video. If people only want to search from Combo/Music Videos, Tournament Videos, or Miscellaneous, they can navigate to those sub-sections before searching.
Organizing videos by tags also gets rid of the current issue where when you click a section, the videos that fall under the sub-section don't appear. For instance, when I click "Smash Bros. Melee", it takes me to this link:
http://smashboards.com/media/category/smash-bros-melee.3/ . Unfortunately, this section has no videos. This suggests that there aren't any Melee videos, when clearly there are plenty. All videos should appear not only in their sub-sections, but in their super-sections as well. So when I click "Smash Bros. Melee", every single video should be listed in there. From there, I should be able to check boxes and search to find what I want. Maybe I want to check a box labeled "MLG 2006" so I can immediately see all of the Melee videos from MLG '06. I can organize them even further by check a box to list them by upload date, views, rating, number of comments, or whatever your heart desires. If you need some ideas, just start with the same filters YouTube offers (just search on YouTube for any keyword, then click "Filters" at the top left).
