Most of you have already noticed (and discussed) this, but I wanted a dedicated thread for this new feature. I'll quote (with some editing for clarity) myself just for context:
Feedback is welcome, but please note that this is still very much a work in progress. I've taken too long to get new stuff up on the site, so I'm trying to get things up faster and then iterate on them publicly, as opposed to tweaking and planning forever. So if I seem at all curt or dismissive, it's probably just because I'm still working out the best way to do this stuff.
That said, I'm really pleased with the basic structure so far. I think this is going to work well.
Here's the basic idea: you can create new topics directly from individual movie pages. When you do, the topic is "linked" to that movie. It goes in its own (mostly hidden) forum that holds all movie-specific topics, but it'll still show up in New Posts and various searches, and it'll have a prefix in front of it to indicate that it came from that movie's page.
The basic idea is that a lot of people probably find the site after watching a movie and want to talk about it, or ask a question about it, so it's more natural for them to find the movie and discuss it through there, rather than through general forum categories.
Side note, if there are no threads yet for a movie, the page will search for related topics as a placeholder, but these'll be replaced by the linked topic(s) as soon as someone creates one for the first time.
Example of a movie page with a topic "attached" to it:
Pulp Fiction.
Example of a movie page (for now, at least) with no topics attached that displays its best guess at related threads in the meantime: Taxi Driver.
The basic idea is that a lot of people probably find the site after watching a movie and want to talk about it, or ask a question about it, so it's more natural for them to find the movie and discuss it through there, rather than through general forum categories.
Side note, if there are no threads yet for a movie, the page will search for related topics as a placeholder, but these'll be replaced by the linked topic(s) as soon as someone creates one for the first time.
Example of a movie page with a topic "attached" to it:
Pulp Fiction.
Example of a movie page (for now, at least) with no topics attached that displays its best guess at related threads in the meantime: Taxi Driver.
That said, I'm really pleased with the basic structure so far. I think this is going to work well.