Official Forum Feedback Thread

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--NT

I like the forums in general, but I wish there wasn't quite as much wasted space. For example the borders on the left and right that show the city buildings image is just wasted. I'd rather see the forum itself go all the way to the edges of the window.

Also, I really miss the Dev and Community Digest posts. I can't seem to find an easy way to get a list of all the Dev posts in this new forum.

I like the look of the new forums and it's nice that you guys have new, more efficient scripts to run them and all, but over the new forums are useless to me.

Specifically, I use the forums to see what the Dev and Community red names are up to. That's broken. Will it come back? Maybe. I hear rumors, but considering I can't find any red name posts that say that I have no idea when or if that'll happen.

Also, as someone with a serious case of alt-itis I often used the FAQ pages for each archetype to get some ideas of which powers were good and which could be skipped when building a new character. Since links to old article weren't translated to the articles new URLs, those pages are now frustratingly broken.

Seriously. It took three days to port over the old messages to the new forums. Couldn't updating the internal links to other pages have been part of that process? The forums represent five years of combined work and knowledge compiled by the player base and it's all broken now.

But hey. I'm glad your scripts are working better for you now... =P

-Bux

I have a big request. In fact, it's a demand. It's so important that henceforth I'll be talking in bold letters.


I demand the word filter be changed back to replacing 'bad words' with the proper [censored] tag we had on the old boards. You see, I had a habit of just typing out [censored] whenever I meant to insult someone or swear at someone or something and allow for the reader's mind to fill in the blanks. It also casually removed the need for me to actually think about which words are acceptable around here and which aren't. While most common swearwords will likely still be caught by the word filter, some might not be.

Why don't I just type out ****** to fit my habits to the new medium? Cause it's suggestive. The number of asterisks equals the number of letters in the filtered word. Which might get people guessing as to what I meant to say.

If at all possible with the new forums software I therefore demand the return of the [censored] placeholder.

So I feel strongly enough to bring this up here. And I rarely ever post on the forums anymore.

The Dev/Community Digest needs fixed immediately.

Honestly, the Dev Digest was easily the most important part of the forums. I like to know what's going on with the game and what I can look forward to, or answers to popular queries. I'm not willing to go fishing through tons of topics to do so though. The Dev Digest made everything easier and kept us all informed rather well. Without it, so many people have deemed the forums not using at all- myself included. Granted, there are a butt load of people who find it useful still, but there's also a large number who don't.

And I feel strongly about this that I feel like people should be nagging about it relentlessly. ...Or at least once a day.

It seems that the reputation feature has become a sort of PvP element.
Though some may be having "fun" with that, I don't think anonymous negative (and sometimes downright nasty) comments are conducive to maintaining civility throughout the entire board community.
I believe the PWNZ thread exists for those who wish to engage in PvP activities on the boards, much as the arenas and PvP zones exist in game for the same.

I don't know if this has already been brought up, but:

Issue 15 forums appear to be sorted by default alphabetically by thread title. Changing this to be sorted by Last Post might be good for consistency.

This may or may not have been already brought up, but is anyone else (on Firefox, in case it has to do with that) having trouble with cookies not updating properly? For instance, I've marked the Site/Forums downtime announcement as read about five times now, and every time I come back it's marked new. Same problem with the "Go to newest post" arrow, it always just takes me to the OP.

I would like...

... to have the forums use a separate password from my game account. Using the same password for both makes me nervous.

... an option to select "always preview posts before submitting" or something similar to the option the old forums had. (Perhaps this exists and I just can't find it.) On the old forums, I was able to set that option in my preferences and all posts would be forced to preview mode before they required a final click to be submitted. Here I need to remember to do it manually. My memory is not what it used to be, so any way to help automate my posting quality control is very much appreciated.

... less background noise. The background image seems to slow down my iPhone forum viewing. (No, I'm not an addict. SO?!) It also seems to reload before anything else when I choose to open a new thread in a new tab or window, treating me to a less-that-lovely view of Statesman's codpiece whenever I open a window/tab that way. It would be nice to get rid of some of that clutter/crotch.

Generally speaking, I'm enjoying the new forums very much.

I was bothered by using the same credentials for the forums and the game until I noticed (had it pointed out, actually) that the login button submits the details via https. Thus, your password is encrypted with the same method other secure web sites use when it is sent to the server.

I haven't seen the code, of course, but I don't see this as a security risk. What is most likely happening there is that the web server takes those credentials, passes it to the back end, and if the login is good, gets back the account attributes it needs to serve pages (account status, user name, access levels, etc). It's done with the password by then, and in the end https shouldn't be any less secure than whatever the actual game client is doing.

I apologize for having brought this up earlier, as I didn't notice the https page the login button submits the form to. Bad form on my part. Note to self: read (in this case, page source), then post.

I'd like to have a slightly darker background option too for greater contrast. The new forums are pretty, but I do find them a little hard to read sometimes. And, like others, would love to be able to turn off just sig images, but turning off all images works too.