The new EA Sims Forum
I am a member of the soon to be Sims Forum. I have also raised my concern in the Forum and will repeat it here. Perhaps this debate has already started somewhere else, but forgive me for not seeing ...
Forum Discussion
On every platform I tend to sort things by most recent, so that when I visit a thread I read before, new replies are on the top. This favours anything new, whether a user is popular or not, which I think is the most equitable.
I can see the point of Most recent, but what do I use Most Viewed, Most Replies, Most Likes for?
When I point out heroes and rank, it is about the right to costume a personal avatar.
If you ever decide to aim for the most viewed, most replied or most liked thread, then you could actually find it. š
I'm not quite sure if I understand you correctly, but I think it must be a joke. š
The only thing I aim for is an equal Forum in which I can find my way around and feel comfortable in. š
EA_NilsCommunity Admin
MonaSolstraale Thanks for all your feedback!
Outside of addressing bugs, I also want to highlight that we are still experimenting.
We have intentionally enabled many of these features, so that we can gather feedback like yours.
At a forum/board level, seeing a list of threads sorted by Most Recent is essentially what's the default for forums since the dawn of time.
The other options are there to potentially help find trending discussions, or popular posts. Whether these turn out to be the right thing for different contexts (say game discussion vs technical support) - we'll learn.
As for ordering replies in a discussion / thread itself, there is one global setting, which is set to "sorted by like" and cannot be changed by us yet. There's also the option to manually override this for each thread, but it has to be done every single time. This isn't user friendly.Our goal is to provide more agency. The ideal state should look something like this:
- For our team: Global setting to set a default.
- For our team: Ability to configure an override at board level (e.g. to account for those different context mentioned before)
- For forum members: User-profile setting to set their own preference (e.g. Use default, oldest first, newest first, by likes)
- In thread: To change it on the fly without affecting your default settings.
