The new EA Sims Forum

EA_Spectre  Allow me to illustrate a problem with the notifications. I choose to use pictures because sometimes they tell more than words.

On the bell I can see that a notification has come to me.
Now a whole series of notifications from threads I follow opens up. 

I would like to follow the comments in this group and now I expect the notification to take me directly to the latest comments, but instead I end up on the front page.

It is a very active thread which, as you can see, was created 9 years ago.

If I choose to sort by Oldest, I now have to scroll through 2843 answers.

If I choose to sort by Newest, you can see my own answer that was transferred 5 months ago as well as the two newest answers that are in reverse order and several layers.

How should we continue such a conversation?

We can of course create a whole new thread, but since we are, as I said, a fairly active discussion group, we will quickly end up in the same problem.

I absolutely hate that this site does not allow to read in a chronological order. It gives me anxiety. Nested responses and having to read backwards after selecting "Newest first" is just a joke. 

How am I supposed to read a story thread this way? 

This site isn't a forum, it's just a standard Q&A site which absolutely does not fit the Sims community.

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1014450/the-all-new-ea-forums-are-live-now/p8 We're being asked to redirect our comments/feedback here to the new forums, but in all honesty it's hard to figure out how and where best to do so. Many other people are probably going to be confused as well once they realize that this is where the staff members are gathering suggestions. It would be my guess that starting a new thread for each individual concern would probably not be preferable.

The original poster has already outlined most of my top concerns, but I'd like to add a few additional details.
* You're obviously hearing this a lot, but having the ability to recognize each other by way of personalized avatars and a customizable profile page is extremely important to a lot of people. The old forums do an excellent job in that respect, so if it's possible to do the same here that would be much appreciated.
* As already mentioned, it would be definitely be helpful to have the newest posts show as the default option. However, even when sorting posts that way, having to read posts in what seems to be reverse order is extremely difficult. Page numbers and post numbers would be a lot of help to remedy that problem.

Would it be possible at some point to recreate a specific "off topic" section for random topics and forums games? That is where I've spent 99% of my time over the past several years on the old forums, and there are others who have done the same. Having those threads grouped into "The Sims Franchise Discussion" section isn't particularly convenient.

If a member of the EA staff happens to see this comment, I want to say thank you for your patience and effort. Clearly you have a lot to deal with right now, and it personally means a lot that you're already making so much effort to listen to everyone's feedback. It's completely understandable that it will take quite some time to sort everything out and make needed improvements and additions to the site.

Hey MonaSolstraale that's exactly the kind of feedback we are looking for. The last thing we want is for you feeling that you are not important here. Because you are important to us. We see you! 👀

Would you prefer having the newest posts showing as the default option?

We'll make several smaller design changes over the course of the next months and I'll keep your feedback in mind for that.

/Spectre

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.