Sub-forum hierarchy option

[woostar]

Could you add a Sub-forum hierarchy option?

for example:-

domain.com <---root

domain.com/forum/ <--- forum

domain.com/forum/sub-forum/ <--- inner forums

domain.com/forum/sub-forum/thread.html <--- thread

This would mean that inner sub forums can share the same forum titles as those anywhere else on the forum without having to add the forum ID into the URL.

for example:-

domain.com/forum-one/

domain.com/forum-one/archive/

domain.com/forum-one/archive/100-thread-title.html


domain.com/forum-two/

domain.com/forum-two/archive/

domain.com/forum-two/archive/101-thread-title.html


domain.com/forum-three/

domain.com/forum-three/archive/

domain.com/forum-three/archive/103-thread-title.html

I think it would be handy for anything from expired offers, support questions, archive's... there could be lots of uses for it.


What do you think, yay / nay?

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[briansol]

I personally think archiving is a huge waste of time, and makes your threads get re-indexed for no good reason.

[woostar]

I agree to a certain degree (when it comes to threads that already rank well)... but re-indexing old threads does (or will moreso in the future) have advantages. As the internet gets bigger it is only a matter of time before search engines push older and non updated pages further from the top results. By re-indexing them (without a 301, which vBSEO doesn't do on moved threads) "in theroy" you could be giving them a new lease of life.

But to be honest that's not the reason why I asked for it (it has sooo many applications), archiving was the only universal example that I could think of that would get the idea across. The reason I actually wanted it was to have country specific forums, E.G:

www.domain.com/us/local-contacts/
www.domain.com/gb/local-contacts/

^^ that's just an example, but I want to duplicate a dozen forums for several countries.