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 "prev...
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EA_Failroader
Community Manager
Community ManagerHello and thanks for the feedback! While we are currently making sure things are working, we're also concerned with how well they are working as well. We want to provide a forum that is inviting but also functional so giving us solid opinions about the features and tools helps us understand which direction we need to continue focusing our efforts.
Feel free to keep trying out things out on the EA Forums and leave any feedback you'd like to pass along too!
#keepcalmandgameon
With all due respect, all of these concerns have been voiced months ago -on the official sims forum- as soon as we were notified that a new EA forum was to be launched. Why were these concerns not taken into consideration? Why were features such as the use of personal avatars and signatures not prioritized, among other things mentioned here? I'm not familiar with the rest of the gaming communities, but I feel that the sims community has been completely overlooked. If anybody did any research into how the sims community (which are all creative people) utilizes a forum, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Yes I'm staying calm, but I'm also very confused.
One size fits all only works for community managers, not the actual community.
I really hope people's feedback will be taken on board. It would be sad to see people who have been active members for years leave, because they're lost and no longer feel welcome.
Thank you for saying this CAPTAIN_NXR7 . As soon as the "new forum is coming" hit us, we all asked questions, voiced concerns, and explained what features we cared about for the Sims forum. And there was quite a lot of consensus about what those features were. It feels like none of that was listened to.
The feedback is recurring and simple. Whatever backend you picked isn't suited for the intended usecase. We want a slow moving forum usefull for chronological story keeping in the case of the sims. not Reddit. This place is not for finding solutions, we always get forced to AHQ for that even within the discords of games.
Now i don't know if there was forums before for the other games, but the Sims community is being migrated from an actual historic forum (and that got migrated from forum to forum with every sims generation). This feels like several leaps backwards in functionRespectfully, I can't help but feel that if I can't read and understand a thread because it's completely out of order, the site doesn't really work because it doesn't do the task it needs to do.
I would like to point out that the new forum is also very slow. It took more than a few seconds to load this thread. Then I had to re-sort it to show newest posts.
