I'm not sure if a similar post was made already or not, whatever I decided to sort the thread by "oldest" or "newest" it would reload after a few "load more" and start from the start again.
Anyway, elsewhere in the forum I was having a conversation about my impressions on the problems of this new forum specifically for people posting stories and legacies, which ended in this list which seemed relevant to this thread. Thinking about it, many of these points apply to long threads in general I think.
- The forums are hard to navigate and it's very easy to miss threads and posts I would be interested in reading. It took forever to find again all the stories I was following, and the fact that the Creative Corner section is merging several formal sub-sections is causing threads to be submerged even quicker than they used to
- The whole forum is slow to load and full of glitches (to me the most annoying are the forced log out, even when I'm still writing or editing a reply, and the page reloading at most "load more" (usually showing the first post again))
- The new "load more" layout makes it very tedious and confusing to navigate long threads and is painful to apply to the creative corner, as it doesn't use chronological order and it doesn't get along well with long posts
- Sadly, I didn't find any indication in this section that hints to a reintroduction of pages in threads
- We don't have spoiler tags in replies (as far as I know), which makes it difficult both to hide long posts under a spoiler (like we used to do when posting many pictures or walls of text in stories updates), or also to hide the comments to new chapters to avoid spoiling other readers
- I'm losing hope about custom avatars, and even more so about custom signatures. The resulting mood kills the joy of any creative exploit!
- The forum is in general slow to load
The new and different template, less suited for the creative corner activities and long threads in general, and possibly the frequency of annoying bugs, are in my opinion worrisome enough to foresee a decrease in the activity of those who post and read stories and legacies in the next few months. This would really sadden me, I liked a lot the community on the old forum and I would find it very sad to notice people were quietly starting to move away.
So the question becomes: are you planning to implement any change that may make navigating long threads and stories enjoyable again, or do we have to look for some new place where to spend our time?