Doing a bit of housecleaning with the regional category organizations. The organization had always been a bit funky with a number of US regions lumped with the rest of the world. This effort attempts to group regions that are geographically close (relatively, at least compared to the rest of the World) together:
New Orleans-> New Orleans, the South
Midwest-> Midwest, Mountain West
Texas->Texas, Southwest
Rest of US and World-> Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Rest of World
You may get notifications on old discussions that moved from rest of US and World to their new respective categories.
I would think Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and anything else subject to US Government might be better as a separate category from the Rest of The World category? Just 2 cents.
Wouldn’t it be easier to further resolve the lumping of ROW regions too?
There may not be a lot of posting / activity to date, but as people have started traveling again, maybe it it would encourage sharing if there were some differentiation.
For eg
Hawai, PR, caribbean (“north American beach vacation” theme as it were)
Mexico, central & South America
Africa
Rest of Europe (ex Italy, Spain, Portugal, France)
(That’s still missing plenty which gets lumped into Rest of World until someone really wants something there differentiated.)
We’ll have to see about activities. Having a category by itself doesn’t necessarily encourage activities. In fact, having a quiet category discourages activities. We’ve seen frequently in the past a category for a specific geo is requested, and then nothing happens for a year.
Organization-wise I am totally with you. Just I am weary of too many dead categories.
