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Hello to our wonderful community.  It has been too long since I wrote.

The community that has sprung up around EllisLab is, in a word, inspiring.  I love our community, and I know that you guys do, too.

In honor of that, we are pleased to introduce to you the Community Help forum.  It is the go-to place for finding help and sharing your ideas for implementing, customizing, and brainstorming how to execute your vision with ExpressionEngine.

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Makes sense to me - much more intuit-able name for someone looking for help from the community.

FYI - The first sentence of your “What is the Community Help Forum?” thread still refers to CodeShare Corner.

I personally think it would also be beneficial to change the order - and therefore the implied hierarchy - of the forums within Community Support Forums. I would prefer:

1. Community Help
2. Development & Programming
3. General Discussion
4. EE Wiki Discussion

Mind you, I’m not a big fan of the current forum structure. I think I would merge Community Gathering and Community Support Forums to create one greater “Community Forums”. Pre-Sales could be moved to Support Forums (which I would rename “ExpressionEngine 2 Support Forums” - just to be more explicit).

I think the General Discussion forum is perhaps unnecessary. Consider merging it with Community Help. If you feel the need to keep it then consider renaming it to “ExpressionEngine Lounge” to be clearer that it is a forum for talking about ExpressionEngine without any expectation of getting any support from anyone - more of a social hang-out.

And if you did that maybe you’d need to rename The Lounge - not sure to what though, maybe “Shouldn’t you be doing this on Facebook/Twitter Forums”.

Or maybe just merge General Discussion with The Lounge. The Lounge would then be the default ‘talk about anything you want ‘cos nobody’s paying any attention forum’.

Oops, thanks Will!  Fixed that announcement.

I’ll review the other suggestions as well. Reordering the forum may be another step we take if there is still lingering confusion.  We did consider the order very carefully before launch, but I can promise that we’ll continue to watch the feedback and make changes that will help the community find these forums helpful.

Lisa,

Thank you for the name change. I’m sure it will help people find their way more easily around the forums.

TTFN
Travis