I really fail to see how… since this forum is not ugly nor clunky… I still see very basic forums in use where it is a single text based thread with no features nor options nor can it be expanded on
Here with this forum, more features will be opened up as we go, changes can and will be made or adjusted as we go also
This new format IS ugly. I realize that’s a subjective matter, but that’s how I feel about it. And it’s super clunky! We’re forced to fumble our way through these massive changes without any sort of user guide, demo, or anything else that would , in any other commercial interest, be provided to users before rolling something like this out to everyone. But, nope… roll it out into PROD, let the users fumble and thrash about in stunned confusion, and then simply dismiss their lack of enthusiasm for these changes. Given all the self-inflicted damage Gaijin has done to itself in recent weeks, one really would have thought the company would be far more transparent and communicative about such a broad and sweeping change.
Did you or the other mods get a chance to play around with the new forum systems beforehand? Or did you at least know it was coming? Or were you just as surprised as everyone else when you logged in the other day?
Why wasnt there an adjustment period like there was with the new bug report site? (which is also clunky to navigate)
Why does this forum seem half finished but is played off as ready?
What was the reason behind locking editing and being able to post more than 3 times a day (seriously?) behind a “trust level” that I have a feeling can be reset to 0 on the whim of an administrator?
That’s the new thing, u don’t
I don’t like it :(
New features are all cool but sadly I do not see them at the moment, why do you force such drastic change then ? Changes as we go ? So this product is clearly unfinished, all you had to do is to push this back by 2-4 weeks, give us proper announcement, gather feedback, present us your ideas, take some from the community and incorporate them, easy as that
All with proper announcement, topic, news…
This as a forum at the moment is in my eyes half finished - partially nonfunctioning product which in my eyes is missing even more features than we had on the good trusty old forum (edits, sometimes I can not say who is replying ti who and what text, not enough emojis… for example)
Plus it is unpleasant to look at, my eyesore after 15-20 mins of reading
The only thing positive about the forum change is that now you can decide to view hidden messages anyway xD
Yep as I see another one of my comments just got hidden lol. By the “community”. Yeah whatever.
Little hint ? we can still view them but you have to click on the greyed out view content.
I would prefer for comments not to be hidden and for the individual to be able to decide if they do or do not want to read these comments, all of the comments hidden so far have been hidden for no reason.
Just show me that it’s been flagged or something without hiding it.
i still dont like that version of the Forum Edit: now you cann edit your post lol
This annoys me too, every one i have clicked on has not been anything i would consider worth flagging compared to the stuff around it. Its just amusing seeing something flagged and its a tame post, followed by the one beneath having actual swear words and is completely uncensored XD
@Pacifica , would it be possible to add a general discussion tag into machinery subsections? Please. Because there are some topics which concern all NF vehicles. And right now there is no proper way how to tag such topics.
Also topics such as these Naval mission objectives - Discussion would much better fit into the Navy subsection since this is only NF related discussion. But again I can´t tag them properly.
Also would it be possible to give users ability to tag @ moderators and @ Forum Moderators groups so they don´t need to tag mods specifically?
Color scheme change addition is nice. Very much prefer the light scheme personally. Credit where credit’s due.
Ah, that seems to bring one back to the level of control we previously had. Good stuff.
The Forum will use what ever Avatar that you have selected in game, it just may take a little while to update or you could try log out/log in and see if that helps
Otherwise, you cannot use custom avatars
Good stuff. Thanks. Pity I can’t get a pic of my wargame tanks and figures up there (72 scale). All the best. :) Also, we don’t have smileys in the new forum? No big deal if no.
I wonder if… 🙂 from my browser.
We may have Emojis at some point on the forum
What browser did you use that with ? I only use Firefox so dont know if it has that option lol
😎Start+. does some
So tip to whoever’s running the forum from someone who used to do this professionally. Your category list in the left nav is killing your usability. There’s no way from default on standard laptop/desktop browser settings to go to “all categories” without a down scroll, in part because you have multiple “suggestions” headings, so a lot of the site, like for instance, all the squadron recruitment stuff, is being completely lost and ignored; people simply don’t know it’s there. You should trim down the sidenav list of categories to six to bring “All Categories” back up into visibility.