Can you imagine the confusion and even more stupid questions that would clutter these forums if both were combined??
I am not asking for them to be combined. All that needs to happen is add the v7.x forums under a category heading of FreeNAS 7 Forums just like there is the FreeNAS 8 Forums. Not that hard really and it would stop the confusion as people could then post in their respective version of FreeNAS forums and not have to go and find a completely separate forum on another url for the v7.x help. Seriously why would you think otherwise this is the 'forums' for FreeNAS?
They are separate because they are completely different other than the name. It's bad enough now when people can't tell you what version they're using, but considering the major differences, a major portion of the posts would be trying to verify who was talking about what resulting in wrong answers. As it is in these forums, people still can't post their questions in the proper sections. Having them separate allows the people that develop each version to clearly see what people are having trouble with and respond more directly without wasting valuable development time responding to questions about a different product that they are not involved with. Bitching about lack of support in the FreeNAS 7 forums in the FreeNAS 8 forums will not get you any sympathy or solve the problem with the lack support in those forums. Sorry....
*Sigh*... We know it is a separate version, but so what? Again just to be clear for you it would be simple enough to have a second set of forums on the forums.freenas.org site with the heading category of, you guessed it, FreeNAS 7 Forums and then have a set of sub-forums under that just like there is for the FreeNAS 8 Forums. Then people could post in the sub-forums of the version to which they have, that being either 7.x or 8.x.
The only bitching going on here is people like yourself not seeing the logic of having the forums on the one site and just split between FreeNAS 8 Forums and FreeNAS 7 Forums.
This would then stop version 7.x users from posting in the v8 forums as they could 'clearly' see the set of forums for the v7.x version. This by the way is what I logically did when I came to these forums. I saw the FreeNAS 8 Forums and scrolled down to (logically) find the FreeNAS 7 Forums for me to post in, but no they did not exist on this site, they for an odd reason are on a completely different site - which is in my opinion counter productive and the number 1 reason why people that use v7.x post in the v8.x forums.
I hope I have cleared that up for you and made it easy to understand what is actually being asked for or suggested to be done.