But this feels kinda like a hassle? I have to press back several times to get back to the previous post, and things don't seem as easy to find as before. Maybe it's just me who needs to adjust to the new forum, but it feel a little disappointing
I've been giving the new forum a chance, but I have to say - I really dislike it. It's not the change that I dislike - I don't mind change - but the forum is just plain bad. It's really badly designed and definitely not suited for the community.
I hope we can, as a community, perhaps persuade the people over at Maxis to give us a different forum, similar to the old one (or just the old one?). I don't know if they have any say - it seems EA wanted all of the community to be in a central place (or something like that)... but we can hope.
I've been there a couple of times but just feel like the boomer I am, as I confused try to navigate the slow loading mess.
Today the forum is just a mess, it tells me I can' post with this message;
Content Not Published
You’ve exceeded the maximum number of posts you can publish. Try again later.
And no matter what I try I can't post. I can't make a post about the issue either.
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. -- Francis Bacon
At first glance it's not bad to look at, but when you get down to the brass tacks of using it reliably it more resembles a Potemkin village, the façade is OK but the function is quite unfourmlike.
Hope springs eternal for improvements but I have doubts the the functionality and usefulness can be obtained on the new forum platform in any reasonable amount of time.
Thank you so much 🙂
I hope they improve it because every time I press show more it jumps back to the top of the page. I can read a few posts at the start of the topic but not the rest of them
They did say it’s a work in progress. I’m giving it time. Nothing is perfect. Especially right out of the box.
I've had enormous problems with this new forum. For days, although I was logged in, whenever I tried to post anything, I got a message telling me that I had to be logged in to use that feature. I couldn't even post about it in the Bug section. However, now I seem to be able to post again although I haven't tried to post a new message yet. Will try that next.
I've given up on the new forums for now. I can't find anything, and its impossible to see the new posts in a topic that im interested. So I found myself back here on Answers HQ. Never thought I'd say it, but I prefer this forum format to whatever is over at the EA forums. Seems like others are having the same revelation 😃
