Your thoughts on our forums

29 August 2020 05:51 AM

CaliMonk Administrator

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Hi everyone,

As you’ve noticed these lasts years (?), I’ve made several changes to the forums to make them more usable. Improvements on mobile, fixing broken functionality and extending it with some long requested featured.

However, as time goes by I wonder if this current forum software (which has been the debate before) is still the right one to use. So who better to ask then, you, the forum members. What do you want in forum software? Is there certain software or example forums you believe are much more usable? I’d like to seriously start looking into moving software, if there is enough wish for different software with rationale on why :-)

I’d also like to see how these forums could have certain subforums for other genres as well (like RPG’s and Platformers for instance), so again, open to suggestions. As a stretch I -might- even be able to get all the old archived forum posts back together, but no promises there.

Let me know!

Ivo

29 August 2020 10:07 AM #1

zobraks Sr. Adventurer

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Hi there.

I wish the forum software would allow image attachments, so all the pictures from this thread could be preserved (as long as the forum lasts).

I also miss “members online” or “who’s watching what” option, because I like to lurk and find out what other members are interested in.

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29 August 2020 08:38 PM #2

Donuts McGee Sr. Member

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I like the forums how they are. The only improvement I can think of is a chat room, like they used to have back in the 90s. I think it was called IRC or IRQ, and it’ s more social. You go there if you want immediate back-and-forth chat. The forums are good but waiting for hours to get a reply is not ideal, sometimes you want something more immediate.

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31 August 2020 04:45 AM #3

TimovieMan Administrator

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Donuts McGee - 29 August 2020 08:38 PM
I like the forums how they are. The only improvement I can think of is a chat room, like they used to have back in the 90s. I think it was called IRC or IRQ, and it’ s more social. You go there if you want immediate back-and-forth chat. The forums are good but waiting for hours to get a reply is not ideal, sometimes you want something more immediate.

We have Discord for that.

@Ivo, maybe feature the link to the Discord more prominently at the site? I had to search in the forums to find the link again as I couldn’t easily find it otherwise.

Edit: I’m also missing the links to the latest articles at the top of the forums. I quite liked having them…

Edit 2: More on-topic, I’ve gotten so used to the forums as they are (and no longer frequent other forums as much) that I don’t really see lots of improvements any more. You should have asked me this question five years ago.

31 August 2020 05:49 AM #4

Vehelon Sr. Member

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I went to the Discord “chat” and the last message there was 2 weeks ago. So… it’s even less active than this forum.

But I’m sure Donuts is a patient guy. Happy chatting!

31 August 2020 01:52 PM #5

CaliMonk Administrator

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TimovieMan - 31 August 2020 04:45 AM

Edit: I’m also missing the links to the latest articles at the top of the forums. I quite liked having them…

Hah removed them as I hardly saw anyone clicking on them and I didn’t like that it pushed the content so far down, but I’ll likely re-introduce them. Was just thinking of how to make them more useful, but perhaps they were already fine as they were.

31 August 2020 01:53 PM #6

CaliMonk Administrator

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Vehelon - 31 August 2020 05:49 AM
I went to the Discord “chat” and the last message there was 2 weeks ago. So… it’s even less active than this forum.

But I’m sure Donuts is a patient guy. Happy chatting!

It’s not super active (there are times where there’s more) but every day or so there is -some- activity at least.. we need more active chatting folks there though :-)

31 August 2020 04:49 PM #7

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CaliMonk - 31 August 2020 01:52 PM
TimovieMan - 31 August 2020 04:45 AM

Edit: I’m also missing the links to the latest articles at the top of the forums. I quite liked having them…

Hah removed them as I hardly saw anyone clicking on them and I didn’t like that it pushed the content so far down, but I’ll likely re-introduce them. Was just thinking of how to make them more useful, but perhaps they were already fine as they were.

They were my route to articles I wanted to see. I don’t use the homepage much, so them being gone is a bit irritating.

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31 August 2020 09:49 PM #8

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