Feedback on the Bug Forum needed
- Main Bug Collecting is still done at AHQ - Hi everyone, I've spend the last couple days cleaning up the bug forum and now I'm interested to hear what you think of it. I don't want to go into details on how I think it should work. I want to hear how it feels to someone who newly ventures into the bug forum or tries to report something. Cade did make a post here: General Information About The Bug Reports Forum | EA Forums - 4965007 to give some general info and of course it has all the downsides this forum generally has but I'm interested in the special features the bug forum here work out for you. The main differences currently are: There's no template, tags are used instead A bug has a status by which you can filter. There's upvotes instead of me toos (upvotes are not likes, they work like the me toos to show how wide-spread the issues are) What do you think of the bug forum here ? What do you feel is missing ? What is unclear ? I'm specifically interested in these question: How does the flow of the bug forum feel to you ? Do you understand what status a bug is currently in and what they generally mean? If you reported something and it was closed down, do you know why it was closed down and what to do next to get help/see that your issue is reported properly ? How does the sorting in this particular forum feel to you ? Do you understand which tags to put for your particular issue ? Do you easily re-find your post know when you've gotten an answer ?
New Here! Looking for Tips on Making the Most of EA Forums
Hi everyone, I’m new to the EA community and wanted to introduce myself! I’ve always been a big fan of games like The Sims and FIFA, and I’m looking forward to being part of this community. I’ve heard a lot about how helpful everyone is here, so I thought it’d be a great place to join in, learn, and hopefully contribute too. Since I’m still figuring things out, I wanted to ask—are there any specific tips for getting the most out of the forums? Are there threads or sections that are especially active or helpful for newcomers? I’d also love to know how to get involved in community discussions or events. Thanks in advance for any guidance, and I’m excited to get started!- EA_Pythia3 days ago
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Invalid HTML error when publishing new stories. Please help.
I am trying to post a story with images on one of my threads, but keep getting an error message come up saying: 'This content is not published. Invalid HTML. Please remove this before posting. Lib- sim.' (no idea what the last bit means). The story is pasted in plain text from a Word doc and have tried uploading each image via the option in the bottom bar (From Computer) instead of copying and pasting but it still won't let me publish the story. There is no HTML content used in the story, it's all from my computer, so am not sure why I keep getting a message about invalid HTML content. I am wondering if it's the length that's causing issues, as when I do shorter posts with one or two images, it works perfectly fine. I notice there doesn't seem to be a spoiler option on the bar for new posts/replies after the main introductory post so I can't get the long post into a spoiler. Has anyone else had the same issue when trying to post stories (can't find related topics in Search)? And if so, have you managed to solve it?You've reached your limit for uploading images
Trying to post an image a few days ago I just got the message that I've reached my upload limit for images, and that I cannot post images any longer. What is even more surprising is that this applies to linked to images as well - even though they do not cause strain on the servers at all and is NOT uploaded to the servers. Just to be clear, I've cleared cash, logged out, logged in again and tried different threads as well as different images, and still the same result. This is not a temporary glitch. I've since read the rules very carefully and NO WHERE can I find the information that there is a limit to how many images I may upload or link to. With a community so based on pictures as the sims-community is this is make it or break it. I cannot take part in screenshot threads started by the gurus. I cannot upload images of my builds in threads asking for images. I cannot complete my projects of NoCC decades fashion. I cannot complete my story by using screenshots, nor start any stories in the future. In essence, I am unable to take part in a large part of what makes this community. EA_Cadeand EA_Nils I have written to you both privately on this matter and yet I get no answer. Is this really what it's supposed to be like?
Feedback on new Sims forum
I want to offer some feedback... I've tried. I really have, but I don't think I can use these forums. They are cluttered, from the "sidebar" that occupies almost a third of the screen to the "preview" text, to the choice of glaringly bright colors. With so much being shoved at me at once, it becomes physically painful for me to try to read or post. I'm getting headaches trying to use them forums. They do not appear to be designed to support discussion, but rather tech support style question-and-answer posts. The way replies are sorted, and nested, and the lack of "page numbers" in favor of "show more" all combine to make it extremely difficult to follow a chronological progression of comments in a thread. I genuinely feel that these forums are the wrong tool for the job... they're like using a hammer to cut wood. You can do it, but you shouldn't.
Dark Theme Please!
Having recently been dumped over here from the old Sims forums (which, tbh, were not great either) I am shocked by how dated and user UNfriendly these forums are. It literally gives me a headaches because they are so bright and as a result I don't even want to look at them. PLEASE, at the very least, add a Dark Theme to these forums, I'm begging you.
"Related Posts" sidebar on the forum encourages necroposting.
I don't want to necropost, but I find myself inadvertently doing that by clicking on the posts in the "Related Posts" sidebar on the forum. Most of the posts are nearly a decade old. To avoid necroposting, could the "Related Posts" only list posts that will not encourage necroposting? If a post is too old for people to add posts to, maybe it shouldn't appear there.Wow! It's been a while since I came on the forum
And I can honestly say, not impressed with the changes. As an Elder I struggle to keep up with all these new changes. If it aint broke don't fix it! All the links to various platfoms, most of which I know nothing about or are interested in. Trying to find out information is not as easy trying to cope with all the changes. At least I have my memories of better Forums from the Sims 1 and especially the Sims 2 days. Younger people do not take into account older people when making changes, the newer technology and how some of us struggle to understand teminology and changes. But just remember one day you will be an elder and maybe then you will then understand. Yes time doesnt stand still does it! Why do things have to be so complicated and why when something works perfectly well you have to implicate changes. You even make us use your avatar picture. Nothing special anymore. I even had to verify who I was to get on here! Perhaps it is getting to the stage where I should hang up my playing days.
Opinion on New Forums
It may just be unpopular opinion, but I find these new forums to be painstakingly difficult to read ,(text is tiny, and colors are blinding), follow thread, my hand hurts from scrolling through hundreds of post I already read since day one to get to current. Newest somehow works but requires a lot waiting of leg work too. Is it just me. Have I been put on a delay? It wont let me post to threads all the time for just no good reason. Notifications are not as clear and prompt as last forum. While I think it may need kinks worked out, I myself may have to take to another forum. I may check in periodically to see if they have improved it, but for now, I can't. Let me know is anyone if experiencing the same or if it's just me.
Forum posts not posting properly and half posting.
Has anyone else had this issue since The Sims 4 forums upgraded? Three times now i've made posts only to find they have got lost in the abyss. I hit reply again and it doesn't register. Just now i made a full post in the what happened in your game today thread for the sims 4. I hit reply and nothing happens. I hit reply again and only half of my post is posted.What happened to the forums? Hate it!
It's been awhile since I visited the Sims forums and wow do I dislike what they've done. 1. I can't make my own avatar anymore? 2. The design and layout is hideous. And way too bright! DARK THEME PLEASE! 3. What happened to all the wonderful sub topic forums? Made looking for specific topics so much easier! Whoever is responsible for this hatchet job... we are not friends. I can already feel the headache coming on from the brightness. If there IS a dark theme PLEASE somebody point me to it!Limit of uploaded Image reached? What about PM?
Why I get every time the news 'limit of 1000 pictures reached', when I try to put a picture in the new Forum? The pic disappear at once . I've no picture done in this Forum. Why PM have spoiler? It is not nice to read the start and the end post, but not the text between. It is curios to read and communicate like that. Several Times I could not answer in the PM, because a box appeard, that I would have done enought news today (similar like the box for pictures). That stops communication for both people in PM. And I don't like the bottom frame, taking the half of the Monitor, while reading PMs. Nice: the colours and sizes for the text and the table for the posts. Also i like, how you can upload now pictures ... if they would stay in my posts 😉.
Does anyone actually think these forums are an improvement?
I honestly just don't see it, it's a big mess and I have to click many times to even see the newest comments on a thread. It's just a huge downgrade to me compared to the old Sims forums which where so much easier to navigate. It just makes me far less interested to really engage here. It just seems even worse than Discord. Maybe I'm getting old but I honestly feel like social media is often getting less social due to "improvements"
New Sims Forum Feedback
Hi! This is for the team at EA who are hopefully picking up on feedback and looking to constantly improve these new forums. What I’d like to stress, and ask for from all us lovely Simmers, is that this isn’t a place for being overly negative, aggressive or angry towards the team or specific staff. I’ve seen quite a few reactions that are just that and if we want to improve things, while we don’t have to be overly positive either, we need to be constructive at least. Having been a member of the original Sims forums and the newer rendition in recent years, I think it’s fair to say what keeps the forums running is the sense of community. So a few things I think that would help this would be: customisation for profiles - avatars, signatures, adding social media links or blogs/websites so we can find each other elsewhere. Paying specific attention to each rendition of the game, the Sims 3 community is massive and has been around a lot longer. So please consider us when making changes! I can see the sims 4 forum/threads already have plenty more tags and options than ours do as well as sub forums that we haven’t been able to keep. We have a whole community of storytellers that benefitted from the stories and legacies subforum and whether the game is 15 years old or not it deserves to live on. Changes to the formatting of threads and replies. I’ve noticed it is already hiding multiple replies under a “show more” filter which limits conversation. Also nesting replies is confusing, the original board style was much easier to navigate and chat on, which is what these forums are all about. As already highlighted, changing the automatic filtering by likes to newest would make it feel more relevant and conversational as a quick fix in the mean time. I personally miss being able to bookmark threads, especially since the sims 3 forums have lost our sub forums and all the migrated ones are in the franchise discussion (please rectify this!). I can’t navigate to what I want to read and am losing track of what I’ve chatted on unless I get notified. Could we also have a list of the rankings just out of interest? I have no idea what a traveler is but apparently I am one 😂 As always, super grateful to the team for taking feedback on board and looking forward to improvements and developments as they come! Happy Simming! LizzieNecroposting not good - so why do the forum advertise 5 years old threads?
When in a thread I get a list of "related posts" to the right. Typically, those posts will be 5 or 7 years old. Recently I commenting in one of them, a thread about graveyards that I thought was highlighted this way due to the new pack. Old thread but very relevant these days thanks to the upcoming Life & Death pack. The result was that the thread got closed because it was considered necroposting. So - WHY do the forum list all those old threads if we can not post on them? My suggestion is that threads that are too old for commenting on, are automatically set to "read only" and NOT advertised as a "hey, come check out this necro-thread". Or, ther could at least be a gravestone/grim or similar symbol indicating the read-only status. I've been on all TS forums for 24(?) years (which is actually a quarter of a century!), but I still do not know what exact age makes a thread too old. A symbol or read-only status would be of great help.New Forum Oddity
Well, here's a new weirdness I have never seen before... I tried to click Like on a post and instead got a pop up of a brief user profile as if I had hovered over a random user's name or avatar (a random user who, as far as I could tell, had nothing to do with the post I was trying to Like). (I keep saying I'm walking away from these forums, but there are a few people and threads that pull me back.)Show more button
When I click the Show more button when reading a thread, it reloads the page and then brings me back at the top of the page and then I need to scroll back down and find where I was and continue reading. Can you please make it so it just loads the next batch of posts without reloading the whole page? It's getting very tedious to read this way especially with all the nested replies and no pagination.FEEDBACK ON FORUM
On your "Update to the Forums" post it said: Site Performance: In recent weeks we’ve seen site performance is not consistently at the level it should be. "Sometimes pages wouldn’t load, errors like “community not found” and “internal server error” would appear, or folks couldn’t log in"We’ve been working behind the scenes to identify what’s been happening, andwe believe one of the main causes of this has been found and addressed this week. As ever, if you are encountering such issues, please let us know. Well I'm here to let you know that it is most definitely NOT FIXED! I have the Sims 4 Forum bookmarked: This is the Bookmark URL I've saved When I tried to access the forum today using that saved Bookmark, 2 things happened: 1 - It took me to another's profile about their Badges (Lili824 is NOT me!) I feel like that's a breach of privacy when I'm taken to someone else's profile! 2 - When I tried go Log in I got the "Couldn't Authenticate" message AGAIN. I'm, so confused by why this particular website has so many issues and not one single other website has them. I should not be logged out unless I log out myself. This is not a bank/personal information website that would time out due to privacy issues. The other forum never logged me out unless there was an update with the site or my personal PC. So, why does this one have that issue? I should not have to clear my "cache" in order to make YOUR website work. I don't have to do that for any other website. Why should I be inconvenienced by clearing the cache and browsing history from all of my other saved sites just to make YOUR site function correctly? That's NOT acceptable!!Idea For New Post Alert/View
I'm hoping and wondering if we could get something where we can see on topics when a new post is made in the yellow area I would want it to say, New Post by person name and time passed Also would be cool if the message count indicator was highlighted a color too or something
Can't Post in Stories
I have not been able to post my updates in stories. I keep getting a message I've exceeded my maximum and to try again later. At least the update I was trying to post is there. (if I hit reply on the last published update, that is.) It has been suggested to me, that if I used codes-links at all, that those could be the problem. I used them three times. Twice in What Happened In Your Game Today?, thread, to let other players know I had posted updates to my story, (in Creative Corner and then a third one in WHIYGT? to let them know I had gone back to Creative Corner, since I wasn't able to find my own posts. Oi! My intention was to remove the code-links on those three posts, hoping this would clear the problem. However, I scrolled through the WHIYGT? thread and they appear to be hopelessly buried. I'm at my wit's end. I am now posting over at Sim Creatives. I will pop over here now and again, just to keep in touch, but I'm reallythat unhappy with how these threads work. I can't even bring myself to call them forums. More like random Post-it notes in which you're entirely lucky should you stumble across one of your own. Yes, I understand that this site is still undergoing construction, but a simple pardon our dust, won't cut it for me. They are unusable as things stand. My updates are stacking up and only being allowed to post one a day, will take a bit of time. And that's when I'm able to publish! So, unless this matter can be cleaned up, I have no other choice when it comes to sharing my stories.
[Sims 3 forum] Cannot make post, then gets told limit is reached.
So I tried to make a post in a thread in the Sims 3 forum, and the post wasn't made. So, of course, I tried to post it again, only to get this message. It is now the second time I encounter this error when trying to make a lengthy post. Now listen, the Sims community is in large part made up of people who use the game for storytelling purposes, and as such we will often make lengthy posts. I don't know if its the lenghty posts themselves that make this happen or what it is, but it just looks like this forum was created without in the slightest bit taking the Sims community into account.... In particular the Sims 3 community, you couldn't even give us sub-forums.... (holds up picket sign, shouts angrily) Edit: The health of these forums is clearly not good. I have tried several times now to make the post, and it won't let me. Yet, the post is stored so I don't have to rewrite it, which is good. Also, when logged out sometimes it fails to recognize my user, and I've had a few instances where the forum itself just won't load, getting a couple of different versions of a "This page can't be found error". as well as threads not loading and only giving me top blue bar and then a white page. Maybe it will be better tomorrow....Disappearing pictures
So, new feedback... over the last couple of days I've noticed that the icons for the various forum sections have been disappearing. Today, the pictures in my story post disappeared for about thirty minutes. Oddly, they didn't show the little "broken picture like" icon. They just weren't there at all... and then they came back. So that's... odd.
Sims 4 general discussion is at the bottom of the list?
Since a few days the sims 4 general discussion subforum is appearing at the bottom of the list with subforums? Is this by design or a glitch? It is tedious to always have to scroll to the bottom. I assumed general discussion was the main section of the forum. Or is the main purpose of this forum to report technical issues and not to talk about the game?I like the page view for boards!
I’ve been quite negative about various aspects of the forum design so far, but I just wanted to provide some positive feedback and say that I really like the page view for boards, where you click on the bolded number of posts at the top of the board! It’s so much less cluttered, and you can see many more discussions at once by scrolling down the page. And then more discussions by clicking on the next page. I think it would be a great improvement if this page view could be set to be the default for each board. And also if each thread could be displayed in the same way. Might that be possible one day (soon)?
Text gets highlighted and deleted while typing
Every so often when I'm typing in a reply, the last several words I typed will be suddenly highlighted then immediately deleted. "Undo" doesn't replace the deleted text. When I try to re-type the text I deleted, sometimes the same thing happens again after the same letter of the same word, and sometimes not. It could be that it's being triggered by some particular combination of letters or words, so if I don't use exactly the same wording it doesn't happen? not sure about that. This happens once or twice in every forum browsing session (twice in the last 15 minutes). This doesn't happen on any other site I visit, or in word processing or other software, so I know it isn't just user error. What's going on? Is it some sort of filter detection? Using Safari on a Macbook Pro
The Sims Community is Different
Okay, I’m not going to post about the glitches, missing features, and other problems in the forum itself. We all know what those are. I would just like to amplify something that maybe needs to be taken more seriously by those who decide these things, and that is this: the Sims game is completely different from the others here, and so is the Sims gaming community. I took some time to look at the boards for the other EA games on the forum, and we simmers are definitely having the most difficulty with the switch. My perspective is that forum interaction and community is directly related to the way the game is played, and the Sims is not like the others. This type of forum is fine when gameplay and community are centered around gaining levels, adding in-game allies or friends, getting performance tips, or raising gameplay related questions. Those types of interactions are the basis of the community for those types of games, because the game has structure. There’s only so much to discuss. A sandbox game like The Sims doesn’t fit in that box. The game itself is open ended. It can be anything we want it to be, and one person’s game is not like anyone else’s. That kind of player directed, open ended game requires a community format that is also open ended and user directed. It needs a loose structure that allows players to share the wide range of possibilities the game gives us. This forum cannot do this. Big, continuous topics with multiple people sharing stories and screenshots are a staple of the Sims community, and after a matter of only weeks, this forum is breaking under the weight of those long threads. On the old forum, we had topics that were years old, still going strong. Conversational topics, idea threads, creative threads and social threads are being buried under long loads, “see more” scrolling and nested replies that don’t allow a natural flow of ideas and communication. My own “Blue Moon” thread is becoming difficult to maintain because I can’t even tell where the new responses are, in order to respond back. While this forum seems to suit games like Star Wars, it is not functional for a game like the Sims and the community that plays it. The Sims is not Star Wars, and it requires a community format that recognizes the difference.Can we have an updates on the forum-feedback?
This forum has been live for a while now, and at least from the Sims-community, the forum has gotten som harsh, but fair and well deserved, feedback by users. So my question is if we could get some updates about where we stand on those issues and when we can expect some improvements? Primarily I'd like updates on the following: Forum performance. What is being done to address the massive performance issues on the site? Pages not loading correctly, or at all, loading being slow, images not displaying as they should, the constant log outs and difficulty logging in... where do we stand on those issues? (Seriously EA cannot possibly be content with the performance) Personal avatars for all users. One of the major wishes from the community was personal avatars, to express our personality and recognise each other. Where do we stand on this? Page loading vs. pages - is there anyway to get pages back instead of infinit loading more on larger threads? Customisable feed so the thread starts in a logical way, and ways for the forum to remember where I left off instead of me having to start over each time I get back into a thread. This needs to be prioritized, longer threads are more or less unreadable at the moment. Spoiler tags on comments so to simplify loading times.Incorrect redirect
Starting yesterday the link to my Community Builds post has been redirecting to a Sims 4 post instead. The link is copied correctly... but redirects incorrectly. My post (added in a space after https so you can see the actual text)... https ://forums.ea.com/discussions/the-sims-3-en/soocoolsims-showcase-%E2%9A%9C%EF%B8%8F/1568017/replies/1568019 goes here... Post the last screenshot you took in The Sims 4 | EA Forums - 831274
Questions & Feedback on EA Forums' functionality
Ask questions about EA Forums' functionality and give feedback on new features & design during the forum launch.133 Posts
