New Sims forum: worries about creative corner
The new forum shows many new features, but as someone who spends most of her time around the old "challenges, stories and legacies" section, I cannot help but worry about the applicability of the new...
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I am currently working on updating my Whittaker Saga, to fix all the images that did not get transferred.
In the German forum, no image is transferred to the news forum because we have fed the forum directly with our images all these years. That was great, but now...everything will be empty! Do I want to put all my pictures in this new forum again... and keep scrolling and... scrolling... scrolling... scrolling? 🤪. They told us to try saving our images to Imgur and relinking them to the old forum to be ready for the transfer😁. No one did, because no one knew, what will come 🤭 ... I had some stories (comics) with just pictures in the posts. It will be completely empty when transferred 🤣 ...
Another issue I'm noticing: I don't see a preview/save before sending button in the editor. This also makes it very difficult to post longer stories directly in the forum. It's just for entertaining snapshots. Something I'm not looking for.
I can't stop noticing more and more problems as I test this forum. I prefer to read chronologically and not the answer with the most likes. There is no point in destroying a discussion or story like this because different posts belong together. Yes, we can choose... but first the system does the choosing for me and every time I have to change. And so I see jumping, scrolling, jumping, scrolling, jumping, scrolling all the time. Painful for the eyes, not good for health. It makes it so difficult to read here. Please change the ranking. But really, I don't know which direction... newest/oldest? Normally I'd say oldest according to chronology, but...
Yes I am missing normal pages 😩
This is why I think this forum format was a very deliberate choice. They probably don't want to moderate very long threads anymore, hence a forum format that discourages that. I noticed that this forum is already very slow when loading short threads with about 20 posts and few to none pictures, simply because it always needs to list and re-list all the posts in the Most liked order. With the old forum, all threads would be cached and helped to load pages faster. Slow loading pages and difficulty to follow conversations will, in time, discourage lengthy posts. I see we get notifications about new posts or likes we receive in threads we posted, but there is no way to link back to those posts to see what they are. Whoever thought those are useful must like abuse. Same with the most recent posts list in the right hand panel. 7 seconds ago someone posted something in a thread started by XYZ. How fun, now I can play detective and try find out who posted what and where. I think the format is great for shouting in the wind type of posts, you say what's on your mind, get if off your chest and then forget about it.
Yes, that may be true... just endless mindless snapshots for the brain will be the future, but then I'm gone with the wind. I have no interest in forums like this format.
