Hmm maybe you can have the Base discussion thread linked to the current Album discussion thread, like a small banner at the top when you clicked on the Album discussion thread or something, and vice versa, to help ATRL members get used to Base.
I'm quite like this idea. The challenge here is to establish a new posting habit, which news should be posted in it right place without too much irrelevant discussion and spam. Promising, but it will take time to get used to. People, including myself, have become too convenient at posting without considering if the content is OT or not. The new posting habit would take away some fun in posting, but it will also result in a much more organized board.
I'm a member of msj, a Macintosh sharing board where they are extremely strict with posting rules. Download links of an app are belonged to a sub forum, while discussion of the very same app must be posted in another sub forum. As a result, I always know where to go when I'm looking for a download link or software feedbacks. And searching for information is just easy as pie. Not a very good analogy, I know, as it is a "boring" geek forum, but ATRL can also benefit from the same idea.
One thing concerns me is that when the Base threads growing so large, say, 500 pages+, those monster threads would stress the server a lot. Album discussion thread can be closed when the era is done, hence putting less stress on the server, but the Base thread discussion seems to be endless. How will you fix this?
Oh sorry for my English
