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 would like to second everything written in the OP and in the subsequent comments. Story threads (and threads like "what happened in your Sims game today", which are also image-heavy and need to be read chronologically) were, to me, the main reason of existence of the Sims forums. Without images properly loading, chronological order and easy navigation through long threads there, sadly, is not much reason for me to use the new forum.
I agree 100%. I spent time on that old forum for the stories and the pictures. Letting us preserve our most treasured threads and then having none of the pictures showing when we got here was a huge disappointment. It was hard enough for our community to be uprooted and displaced like this. To find out (with no warning at all) that the familiar threads and stories we were hoping would help us feel more at home here are essentially ruined due to all the pictures being gone has made the transition even more sour for a lot of us.
Making the default method of sorting posts be by "most liked", rather than chronological, and not being able to easily start reading a thread at the last place we left off really shows that the design was not intended for the way simmers interact with each other. It may work well for game sites where the main thing people do is ask questions, look for technical help, or briefly argue about some feature, but it doesn't work well for players of a game like the Sims games, where we want to write and read lengthy stories, share lots of screenshots centered around a theme, or have long detailed discussions about the game or our ideas. This forum format is not right for really creative and thoughtful players.
To make this site useful going forward, we do at least need a way to read threads chronologically with features such as pages and the ability to keep track of where we left off.
