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 t...
Forum Discussion
Unfortunately, I think that it’s going to be impossible to use these forums to truly foster a Sims community because we cannot even read one another’s posts here.
Customized avatars and signatures would be nice, but fundamentally, I think we need pages and an easy way to sort things chronologically. “Show More” does not work.
Some topics/threads already have hundreds of posts. They cannot be navigated via “Show More.” Theoretically, we can sort by “Oldest” and click “Show More” until we get to the newest post, but it’s far too tedious and time consuming. Often it even glitches and sends us to the top of a page and then we have to scroll down for ages, hit “Show More” again, scroll again, hit “Show More” again, scroll again, hit “Show More” again … Throughout this process, there’s no indication of how many posts we’ve scrolled through, if we’ve reached something we haven’t read before, or if we’re close to end. Also, every single time we visit a thread, we need to do this via either sort by “Oldest” or “Newest.” It creates an awful user experience. For comparison, the old forums ordered things chronologically, remembered where we left off in each thread, and automatically took us to our last read post.
But, more importantly, with these new forums, I don’t even think it’s always possible to make it from one end of some threads to the other end of them. For example, is anyone able to get from the oldest to newest post in the What Happened in Your Game thread (which isn’t even 2 weeks old) at all or without “Show More” glitching at least once?
I understand that Community Admins are working to improve things, but unless they change quickly, longer discussions and story posts will likely die out because the forum structure does not allow us to have them here.
Unfortunately, increasing “Show More” to showing 30-50 posts probably won’t do enough to make all posts in a thread reasonably readable. “Show More” is already glitchy and if there are a lot of posts with images, etc. it may be more likely to break/glitch (and we’d still be without a reasonable way to know, and navigate back to, where we were before).
