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ZeeGee1's avatar
ZeeGee1
Seasoned Hotshot
3 months ago

Sims forum feedback

Thanks for getting notifications back up!

Here is my feedback:

  1. Please give us the ability to change our avatars.
  2. We need subsections in the Sims 3 subforum, like how the Sims 4 subforum is arranged.
  3. Can we default to chronological order instead of 'most liked'? I don't want to see most liked. I want to see what everyone said in chronological order. Or at least be able to change MY default?
  4. Please give us a way to view pages on our old threads with thousands of posts.
  5. I HATE TAGS. Never used them and never will. ๐Ÿ˜‰

That's all... for now.

  • cocokayla's avatar
    cocokayla
    Seasoned Traveler

    I strongly agree with everything. It seems really odd not to have custom avatars or banners. The simming community is really creative and we need ways to express this. Please don't forget about your loyal sims 3 players ๐Ÿ™‚

  • 100% agree, especially regarding our avatars, viewing things in chronological order, and paging!

  • ZeeGee1's avatar
    ZeeGee1
    Seasoned Hotshot

    Couple more things to add:

    1. When I click on notifications Iโ€™ll have several and I wish it would only clear the notification I click to look at, cause when I go back to notifications I canโ€™t remember what all was new. The bold is gone and they all look read. 

    2. The sort order is very confusing especially when it comes to old threads. Mentioned it above but to see new posts on our story telling thread (for example) you click new posts but then have to go backwards to see replies. I loved replying to individual posts at first but on long threads it gets very confusing. Pages will help with that in these long threads.

    Thanks for your consideration! 

  • Page numbers back please.  And also agree on "most liked" Should be newest or back to numbers

  • EA_Nils's avatar
    EA_Nils
    Icon for Community Admin rankCommunity Admin

    Thank you for your candid feedback. I'll fire back with some quick notes:

    • Avatars - We are looking to improve on that. The next step will probably be more options available to choose from pre-selected avatar sets. Long term we are looking into allowing a way customize them, maybe as a perk tied to a certain rank?
    • Tags vs Subsections - Even though we migrated a lot of content, these forums are new. We are in test mode at the moment, and among that we are looking at whether tags and a flatter forum structures works best or whether many sub forums is better. It will take more time to evaluate feedback, but please keep it coming.
    • Pagination - Unfortunately that's not how these forums were built. That said, we also would prefer a better way to load all replies on big threads and will pass on that feedback.
    • luciusstorm's avatar
      luciusstorm
      Seasoned Veteran

      I've been trying to think of a way to say this positively, or at least without letting my frustration and anger override my judgement.

      I am at loss to understand why this forum technology was chosen. It seems to be such a poor fit. These features seem so fundamental... like something as basic as pagination. I really don't understand how we got to this place.

    • ZeeGee1's avatar
      ZeeGee1
      Seasoned Hotshot

      Thank you your reply and explanations, here and on the other thread. Not sure I used the right terminology when it comes to 'subforums.' I was asking for categories like the ones the Sims 4 section has.

      Avatars are changing and we appreciate it! Though I came back today and instead of my pink Picasso-ish avatar I was a big ugly dude. ๐Ÿ˜† Hopefully changes will continue to be made and tying them to 'rank' will hopefully inhibit spammers.