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New or improved forum

Let's start with hello! My first created topic :p

So, although I realize there are far more important things to focus developing currently, I was wondering what people think about the forum, and the devs are around, if there is some plan to replace or improve it at some later time?

<strong>My thoughts so far:</strong>
<li>Having new posts at the end of a forum instead of a "new post" etc at the top is not very intuitive.</li>
<li>Having no "preview post" it a bit annoying when working around with bbcodes and whatever else you might be doing. I can see people making big guides to classes and such eventually, and I would really like to see that button.</li>
<li>Having a +1 or something indicator over the "Forums" tab as well as some overview of "unread messages in active topics" instead of the "notify me of follow-up replies via email".</li>
<li>Having some upvote system both for posts you agree with instead of people quoting or whatever else to just say "I agree", and a community upvote possible to give helpful players on the forum.</li>
<li>Having some clear explaination on how to use tags, do you leave them with "," or "spaces" ? </li>


That's just some of my ideas, I'd love to hear everyone else opinion, as well as some answer from the devs if anything like this is currently planned or being worked on.

Edit: Ok, so using "< li> clearly doesn't work the way it should either:p

Comments

  • Check out this <a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/website-design-and-features-suggestions/">small list</a> I made myself, you can definitely add those ideas to your list. I hope they add a search function soon, these forums are terrible as they are.
  • I agree with you. An unread messages overview is much better than a mail, this way you open the forum and instantly know what you missed. And an upvote system could be useful too, so you know how much success an opinion has gathered. I don't really use tags and bbcodes, so i can't speak for that matter. A search function should really be implemented, we all need it.
  • Website improvements and a revamp will be coming soon :) some changes are already being made

    but yeah notifications would help dramatically as its hard to tell where someones comment on my posts :(
    and yeah up votes 100% :)

    the way tags work is Example 1, Next tag so basicly multiple tags are just separated by a , and a space. if there is only 1 tag, then theres no need to put anything after

    btw don' t edit your post it might get deleted (known issue being worked on )
    and ill pass on the <li> issue :)
  • [quote quote=12385]Check out this <a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/website-design-and-features-suggestions/" rel="nofollow">small list</a> I made myself, you can definitely add those ideas to your list. I hope they add a search function soon, these forums are terrible as they are.

    [/quote]

    "404 not found", whoops?



    [quote quote=12387]Website improvements and a revamp will be coming soon <img alt="????" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.2.1/svg/1f642.svg" /> some changes are already being made

    but yeah notifications would help dramatically as its hard to tell where someones comment on my posts <img alt="????" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.2.1/svg/1f641.svg" />
    and yeah up votes 100% <img alt="????" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.2.1/svg/1f642.svg" />

    the way tags work is Example 1, Next tag so basicly multiple tags are just separated by a , and a space. if there is only 1 tag, then theres no need to put anything after

    btw don’ t edit your post it might get deleted (known issue being worked on )
    and ill pass on the

    [/quote]

    Cheers :D
  • @Nightspyre

    The link works fine.
  • [quote quote=12432]<a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/users/nightspyre/" rel="nofollow">@nightspyre</a>

    The link works fine.

    [/quote]

    <img src="http://i.imgur.com/YxOq22E.jpg" alt="link url" />

    Telling you, this forum isn't great. lol
  • If you have someone who can do css, html and a bit of php use vanilla forums. It can be used with wordpress. With a few extra vanilla plugins it does everything people want for a forum. Plus it's free.
  • Odd, here is the small list, though.

    1. Please allow us to privately message users on the website, it’s a basic feature that can come in handy.
    2. Build some interface to support guild pages, allowing people to build a page specifically for their guild complete with various informative sections, roster and maybe even a customization feature would surely please almost everyone. (small private forums for members of that guild?)
    3. Open up a suggestion box, that way it will be much easier for you to gather data on what the community might think is missing from the website.
    4. Better mobile support.
  • [quote quote=12444]Odd, here is the small list, though.

    1. Please allow us to privately message users on the website, it’s a basic feature that can come in handy.
    2. Build some interface to support guild pages, allowing people to build a page specifically for their guild complete with various informative sections, roster and maybe even a customization feature would surely please almost everyone. (small private forums for members of that guild?)
    3. Open up a suggestion box, that way it will be much easier for you to gather data on what the community might think is missing from the website.
    4. Better mobile support.

    [/quote]

    I think these are really good suggestions mate, really. PM is pretty normal on forums, but I didn't even realize it wasn't available here :p Guild pages is a pretty good idea. With guilds maintaining up to 300 members, a "guild message of the day" or a teamspeak will probably not cut-it, and a forum-section with some admin rights for your own guild could be a pretty genius way to keep everyone connected and up to date. Plus, if people are like me, they enjoy to check in on forums etc while at work, lol.

    Not sure what is wrong about mobile support, they're currently using html5 & css3 standard and it seem pretty solid on my phone, just the general issues with this current forum bugging things to the sides etc?
  • There already exists an improvement sub-topic for Forums: https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/suggestions-for-the-site-and-forum/
  • heads up they are going to work on the forums after KS has launched. It was talked about on discord a week or so ago.
  • I don't have much experience with forums so I don't have many suggestions but it would certainly be helpful if they made it easier to find the new thread button. I have been struggling to find it and I feel other users may have the same problem.
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