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Hi,

It's been 3 months since these forums launched. Since then, I can't think of any consumer-facing deliverable that have been implemented by the web team since. Am I missing it? I know there are a plethora of projects - Improving the clarity around purchasing packages and not being able to play right now; improving navigation on the home page; bread crumbs on the store; referral system.

Seems odd. Can we talk about it?

Thanks,
- tug

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Azryil

The ability to change display names.

Shoklen

The ability for badges to stick around longer then a fleeting maiden in the night... would be nice.

tugowar

edit: totally didn't just put that reply on the wrong post

CROW3

Probably priorities.

Massively ambitious mmo backlog > website

Viymjr

No name change
No polls
No LOL button

None of the above supersedes the game itself, but I assume the web team are not the same as the game development team so we should get updates concurrent with each other? I am happy we have a working forum again, would like to see an improved forum, but would much prefer to see some dates for the game testing.

Azryil

the LoL button and polls were intentionally removed.

tugowar

CROW3 wrote: »

Probably priorities.

Massively ambitious mmo backlog > website

Those should be distinct teams with different project backlogs.

I raise the issue because the non-progress is almost to the point that I wonder if anyone is even working on it. It wouldn’t be a big deal if no one was (game first and all), except that the staff keeps indicating that there is a Web team.

Shoklen

The "Web Team" is just Fred, age 63, and just learned HTML 4.0 from watching youtube videos and wiki reference documents... Give the poor guy a break.

(I'm joking for those of you without a sense of humor)

Viymjr

arzosah wrote: »

the LoL button and polls were intentionally removed.

I missed where they gave a reason why they did this?

Karthos

neomir wrote: »

arzosah wrote: »

the LoL button and polls were intentionally removed.

I missed where they gave a reason why they did this?

Probably because people made 100 polls a day for the same 4 topics.

Azryil

neomir wrote: »

arzosah wrote: »

the LoL button and polls were intentionally removed.

I missed where they gave a reason why they did this?

Toast explained why the LoL reaction was removed in this thread
https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/42538/bring-back-the-lol-reaction-to-the-forums-comments-back#latest
edit: found the explanation for polls getting removed
https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/comment/193618#Comment_193618

Viymjr

Fair enough if the functionality was misused then it is not worth having in the forums...

tugowar

Misused? Not sure about that. The old forums with the gamification were much more active.

Absolutely people achievement hunted for post count, badges, and different things. But did that matter? People were still here more. Isn’t that what you want to when you grow community?

Azryil

I can't remember many polls that were really misused, though it wasn't uncommon for the responses to be biased.

Dygz

Nagash

The forums are a mess but I doubt they will do anything

Karthos

It would also be nice if badges stopped dropping off randomly, only to be earned again, and dropping others off. Probably not an intended feature.

tugowar

Because I am keen on the topic, I noticed it wasn’t in the newsletter for any new hires for web team. Then I noticed that they are hiring two people for the web team. I’m assuming at this point that they don’t have any actual web developers. Interesting area for high turnover.

LieutenantToast

Hiya folks! I replied to our friend @tugowar on Discord about this, but figured I'd drop in here as well

Once the forum relaunch was wrapped up, our web team shifted over to working on more of the back-end infrastructure and fixes needed to support our upcoming Apocalypse tests. While I know Margaret has quite the list of web requests for refreshing and improving our website (and I also have forum requests like badge fixes for when we get the resources available), right now the primary focus is on prepping for that upcoming testing!

Karthos

@LieutenantToast

You should hire Spiderman for the Web Team.

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