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MonaSolstraale
Seasoned Veteran
2 months ago

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 where. That is exactly the problem.
I think everything new requires getting used to and I will probably spend some time getting to know the new EA Forum. However, there is one thing that immediately catches my eye and surprises me.
How is it that almost everything is sorted by 'The most' such as Most Recent, Most Viewed, Most Replies, Most Likes. It is of course very nice for those who already have a lot of followers and likes, but for someone else it seems like a killer. On a forum like X, you're practically invisible and dead if you don't have a whole bunch of followers. I'm afraid the same thing is going to happen here.
As I said, it may be because I can't find my way around yet, but I need to voice my concern out loud and hopefully become wiser.
The best thing about the old Sims Forum is that it didn't try to look like a social media like any other social media where it's about scoring the highest rank and number of followers to get benefits. This applies in particular to the right to costume a personal avatar. I really hope the idea of โ€‹โ€‹earning enough rank to get a personal avatar is rethought.
The existing Forum has been a sanctuary where you have been able to cultivate the special interest you have in the game with other Simmers regardless of their rank and general popularity. The entire structure of the forum has made it easy to navigate.
I don't know how to navigate the EA Forum when it focuses on highlighting the most popular lore at the moment.
This cultivation of elitism leaves me with a feeling of loneliness. For me it's a killer because I don't want to be in a Forum where I have to be confirmed daily that I'm invisible and therefore unimportant.

  • Jooleeyuh's avatar
    Jooleeyuh
    Seasoned Scout

    My hopes for this place being improved are very low right now, considering I was banned from the old forum literal days before it closed for saying exactly what everyone in this thread is saying.

    A place where less-popular statements are buried by default and a chore to access can hardly be called a discussion forum.

  • 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.

    • crocobaura's avatar
      crocobaura
      Seasoned Ace

      It makes no sense to sort by most recent if you want to read a thread like a sims story where posts should be read in chronological order. It's also difficult to follow discussions, because you have the newest reply on top and whatever sparked the discussion at the very bottom so you need to scroll down and then read from bottom to top. 

    • pvrescue1's avatar
      pvrescue1
      New Traveler

      This is (supposed to be...?) a forum, not Reddit or Twitter, where that makes much more sense. Forums have had replies ordered chronologically as far as I can remember because it was the most logical: oldest first, newest last. Anything else just makes things more chaotic than necessary.

    • MonaSolstraale's avatar
      MonaSolstraale
      Seasoned Veteran

      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.

      • crocobaura's avatar
        crocobaura
        Seasoned Ace

        If you ever decide to aim for the most viewed, most replied or most liked thread, then you could actually find it. ๐Ÿ˜›

  • EA_NilsI have a problem updating my Story. The front page and some additions are transferred from the old Sims Forum 6 months ago.
    Today I updated with a new chapter. Unfortunately, I can't change the front page and the header that contains a date that refers to an update from March 10. It seems rather misleading.
    How do I fix the header?

     

    • puzzlezaddict's avatar
      puzzlezaddict
      Hero+

      You're not the only one to report this, and I don't know of a fix once this has happened.  But if you link the thread and write out the new title you want to use, I can try to edit it for you.

  • With my current problem with only  being able to access the new forum is on my phone as I have an internal server error which no one seems to be able to help me with, is to get active in the AHQ forums  which is easier to negotiate and use. 

    Never thought I'd ever say that!

  • Finely cracked my problem today.

    AVG browser protection anti tracking!