Update to Group sub-categories

[alan@ebay]

Hello,

We've tidied up the Group structure in some of the Group categories; now all Group categories have a consistent browsing experience. 

We noticed that there were a lot of Groups that were not under a related sub-category and were sticking out on their own in the Groups flow, this made navigation difficult. Any of the Groups that were not listed under a sub-category have been moved into what we felt were the appropriate sub-categories. 

In the near future, we will be fully reviewing all Groups, and we will archive Groups that have had no activity for a significant period of time. 

If you have any questions, let us know! 

Thank you for being part of The eBay Community! 

[copper.boom]

Hi Alan,

There are some fairly dead groups that used to be thriving discussion boards. Is there any chance some of them can be brought back to board status, under discussions --> categories?

If so we can get input from the community on a few that would benefit the most from "resurrection". I know the stamps & coins board/group is often referenced by some posters, as well as the P&G (pottery & glass) board/group plus a couple of others.

[all_fakes]

I would suggest that the Music/Musician group would be a good candidate for restoration as a board.

When this was a board, it got dozens of posts every day.

As a group, it gets less than 12 posts per year.

It is not that users were no longer interested; but that ebay changes resulted in the demise of that board.   It was viable, lively, active, and fun as a board, and the public could easily find it.  That all vanished when ebay decided to make it a group.

It may be too late of course. I can't predict whether former posters would return or not, at this point in time; it may simply be that ebay changes have driven them away.