Official Forum Feedback Thread
By
8_Ball,
Posted on: 2009-07-31 13:32 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I'd really like to be able to see the subforums from the outer-most level. Allow me to expand and contract the lists of subforums like you can with the different language forums.
Secondly, I'm having the exact same problem that I had when Exteel moved its forums over to the new boards. My avatar doesn't work any more.
The link to my avatar is here: http://premium1.uploadit.org/Vitamin...PhoneSmall.PNG
The forums won't recognize it as valid since "PNG" is capitalized, but the link is wrong if you make it lowercase. Please fix this by making extensions non-case-sensitive.
Third: The dev digest is broken (html doesn't get rendered) and none of the links work.
Also:
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The old forums had you do this, you know.
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Are all replies a "Quick Reply" a la the old forums now?
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Man, the pages take a long time to load.
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It means that there was a name conflict, and there's someone else named Umber_EU.
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Originally Posted by Umber_NA
I'm wondering about the "_NA" added to both our names, I'm assuming thats a North America modifier as I've seen a few "_EU" floating around as well.
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Arc #40529 : The Furies of the Earth
I think the forum looks a lot cleaner, but there is a bit too much wasted space in my opinion. The "last post" feature on the overview should lose some of that empty space and be given some more room for text. Also, I would lose the large gap between posts in the thread views.
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One odd bug I've noticed; sometimes when I try to use the spellchecker the forum pops me out of spellchecking mode spontaneously.
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No; click quote or New Reply at the bottom of the post/page. Also, you may need to set your "Message Editor Interface" options in the User CP. I chose the second option, Standard Editor, but it was defaulted to Basic Editor.|
Originally Posted by SerialBeggar
Are all replies a "Quick Reply" a la the old forums now?
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Originally Posted by SerialBeggar
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Arc #40529 : The Furies of the Earth
The naming thing kills any excitement for me. The colour scheme doesn't help, but that bleeding suffix I got stuck with makes me not want to see my board handle.
Yeah, so apparently another guy over on the Euro servers apparently was just as uncreative as myself and referenced the same meteorological phenomenon for their board handle. Someone with zero posts to their name, I should add. Which now leaves me stuck with that bleeding _NA at the end of my handle. Which I am very much not happy with for a variety of reasons.
One, 'NA' makes me think of 'not available'. I'd like to however assure the ladies of the CoH forums that I am very much available and up for pretty much anything.
On a less serious note (which is probably item two), while I play on the North American servers, I'm still German and living in Germany, which makes me think the NA label is wholly inappropriate to me. Yes, I realize it's only meant to indicate server clusters of origin. But it's not how it parses in my mind.
Most importantly, item three, it's plain not the name I chose. If I wanted a suffix of any sort, I'd have added one when I signed up 25 years ago. It's a text-based environment, handles are the only unique identifiers and first indicators of personality available to us.
I'm not gonna bother with being humble. Even if it's not the greatest handle in the world, it's mine, I'm pretty sure I've had it since the bleeding CoH Beta boards and I'm not gonna share with a guy who doesn't need any handle cause he doesn't post or maybe isn't even around anymore.
Please hurry up with that promised fix, cause typing through gritted teeth appears to be harmful to my fingers.
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This! I missed this first time I logged in to these new forums.
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Originally Posted by Sharrow
Is there a way to expand the front page to show sub-forums without clicking through to a category?
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Please, please this! |
Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
Please, for the love of all that's holy, TURN GRAPHICS IN SIGS OFF!!
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And can we have a link after the last post in a thread to return to the index?
When I've finished reading a thread I now have to go all the way back up to the top of the page to return to the thread index.
I know it's minor, but it was a nice QoL feature on the old boards.
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I just saw that my EU counterpart has zero posts as well. Hopefully they'll give us priority, since our counterparts clearly don't care about posting on the forums.
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Originally Posted by Eisregen_NA
Someone with zero posts to their name, I should add.
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The dev digest is broken and is showing HTML code.
The avatars being 100x100 instead of 80x80 is going to throw some people off, including anyone that uses City Info Tracker, at least unless/until they adjust it (I'm glad I made myself a couple sizes of mine already). Also, having the left 80%ish of the avatar box filled with gray makes transparent avatars look funny.
The background being a sort of dark teal instead of black is starting to get annoying, and it's less readable than white-on-black or black-on-white.
In the forum index, the big star icons next to each forum are about twice as large (in each direction) as they need to be, making the page much taller (needing more scrolling) than it ought to be.
Emoticons (and post icons) were designed for white or light backgrounds and show an ugly light "halo" around their black outline. They need to be re-edited (I can do this myself later tonight if I get bored enough, or there are probably a godzillion other icon sets out there that don't have this problem).
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Oh yes, please!
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Originally Posted by Suzumebachi_EU
And can we have a link after the last post in a thread to return to the index?
When I've finished reading a thread I now have to go all the way back up to the top of the page to return to the thread index. I know it's minor, but it was a nice QoL feature on the old boards. |
Tech support IRL, CLR/DRU/MED/WHM/PRI/DEF. Hmm, I sense a pattern...
S 80% E 80% A 40% K 0%
A few of my alts
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If I'm interpreting things correctly, you can turn off signatures entirely (including text signatures), or images entirely (including images used in the posts themselves), but there's no option to only turn off images in sigs.|
Originally Posted by Umber_NA
The options for disabling images are under User CP, you can individually turn off avatars, sigs, and some third option (in-post pics?)
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The options (enable/disable for all):
Show Signatures
Show Avatars
Show Images (including attached images and images in [IMG] code)
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Two! (thunder, lightning etc.)|
Originally Posted by Liquid_NA
I just saw that my EU counterpart has zero posts as well. Hopefully they'll give us priority, since our counterparts clearly don't care about posting on the forums.
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One more and we can form a lynch mob. Shame it's 1 AM over here and I have no idea where to get a pitchfork from at this time of night. Come to think of it I wouldn't know where to get one during the day either.
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I'd like to know, from the main menu, where the new threads are. Also, I'd like the ability, at user CP, to turn off graphics, that way those who want to see them can and those who don't can turn them off.
Also, I'd like you to poke the Euros. Poke 'em with a stick.
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Up where it says City Of Heroes Forums>English, click on English. Then save that to your Favorites and log on that way. It works for me.
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Originally Posted by BrandX
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Arc #40529 : The Furies of the Earth
Subjective Feedback:
As someone who's moderated and administrated for some big vBulletin forums in the past, I must seriously question the decision to leave the following features activated:
- Images in posts
- Images in signatures
- Reputation points
Images in signatures are also nothing more than big ol' "LOOK AT ME!" signs, and are entirely extraneous. If you do plan on allowing them, however, I suggest a staunch limit on both dimensions and image size, so as to avoid people posting banners with large animated bits in them.
Reputation points ... well, they're just evil. Quality of posts and the contributions a user makes to the community should be the measure of their reputation, not little green or red dots that can be added or taken away for any reason whatsoever with a single click. If nothing else, I beg that the Rep system is disabled! Do you remember what happened on the old boards when we could rate users? Do you?
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Testing...just seeing there's a _NA by my name.
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Check the top right corner of your forums page. If you have an _NA it's hardwritten into your handle and visible there. Obviously too late for you, but other people might wonder.
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Originally Posted by Fury_Flechette
Testing...just seeing there's a _NA by my name.
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Please get rid of the grey background behind the avatars. It eliminates the transparent images that we use. Other than that it will take some getting use to.
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My sentiments exactly.|
Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
Please, for the love of all that's holy, TURN GRAPHICS IN SIGS OFF!!
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edit: I should mention that I have turned all images off for myself, but I would ideally want to be able to see images in posts, just not images in signatures.
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Most everyone had two stars unless they only posted to Forum Games. Which rendered the entire system pointless. Same thing will happen here, so it's really a non-issue. Though I've considered asking people to bomb my Rep to the depths before I even say anything controversial. There is no such thing as a bad Rep.
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Originally Posted by GoliathBirdEater
Reputation points ... well, they're just evil. Quality of posts and the contributions a user makes to the community should be the measure of their reputation, not little green or red dots that can be added or taken away for any reason whatsoever with a single click. If nothing else, I beg that the Rep system is disabled! Do you remember what happened on the old boards when we could rate users? Do you?
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"If you're going through hell, keep going."
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I'd also like to see something similar.. That "all" link was probably one of the features from the old forums that I used the most. The closest thing I could find was to go into the User CP Options and set the posts per page to 100.
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Originally Posted by Donathius
Maybe I'm just not seeing it but I would like to be able to view all messages in a multi-page post. The old forums had an "all" link next to the individual page links, and that doesn't seem to be the case here.
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My Suggestions:
Make http://boards.cityofheroes.com/forumdisplay.php?f=547 the default.
Redo the emoticons to either be PNGs (making the backgrounds blend correctly) or redo them to work with the background. (or create an option that we can use custom emoticons)
Remove the ability to have images in the signatures.
That's all I've found so far. The page takes a long time to load, but that's probably just because everyone is on the forums.