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MasterSeedy's avatar
MasterSeedy
Seasoned Ace
17 days ago

Welcome to 2025: What if we had a forum?

Here's an idea. What if this year we had a place where people could post about various issues and then, later, others could come along and comment on those things and the servers remembered those comments in a way that allowed them to easily reproduce them for anyone browsing the web. 

Like, what if, instead of hiding the comments away behind "read more" they were just there when you scrolled down? What if you could skip down to the last place you'd been reading the last time you were in that same comment thread? What if there was a place where the entire point was reading about what's happening in SWGOH and the one thing the place did well was make it easy to read about what's happening in SWGOH? 

I'm not a programmer. There are a whole bunch of nerdy law questions you might have someday where I'd be the right person to ask, but I am not a programmer. I don't know how hard it is to create a place where there's text and then more text and you can find the text that you want instead of being stuck behind text that you don't want, but I do know that when I was a teenager volunteering in a science museum in the 1990s they had this thing called "Usenet" and you could find things to read easily and quickly even on computers that are now 30 years worth of obsolete. 

The badges are cool. I'm glad we can bold and attach photos and whatnot. But I still want a place where we can read text, leave, come back and skip to the place we were the last time we were here so we can just read the text we haven't read yet. 

It doesn't seem like a huge ask, given computers were doing this quite a long time ago. Why is this website so great at flashing me cool colored badges and so bad for just reading text? 

That's my dream for 2025: a forum where you can actually read things. Crazy, I know, but I'm clinging to the belief that it's still possible. 

8 Replies

  • DarjeloSalas's avatar
    DarjeloSalas
    Seasoned Veteran
    16 days ago

    Perhaps the best example of how difficult it is to use these forums is when someone necroposts in an 8 year old thread. I don’t know how many times I’d have had to click “read more” to find the newest post, because I gave up long before I got there. 

  • I agree. The new forum is certainly better in terms of visuals compared to the old one and has admittedly improved somewhat throughout the last few months, but it still could use some improvement here and there.

    For one, the sign-in. I would prefer if I didn't have to sign in again every half hour. At the very least, I would be thankful if I could at least sign in immediately instead of having to go through several error messages.

    The necros. I agree with Darjelo, I just don't understand what's the point of scrolling through countless threads to find and post in one from years ago. I can understand posting in a thread where the last comment was from a month or two ago. But years? Unfortunately, as strange and meaningless as it is, it was also common during the time of the old forum. Maybe lock the threads after a certain amount of time has passed since the last post. You can still visit the thread, you just can't post anything or leave any likes. It's not so much a technical issue as it is just strange and uncomfortable, but still.

    The profile images. Until a while, maybe about two weeks, ago, I had Maul as my profile image. Then, it just somehow turned into a silhouette. And when I tried to change it (back) an hour ago before writing this, I had only a limited choice, and most of the time the image next to my username was different from what I had chosen. Maybe give us a wider arrange of images to choose from, or allow us to upload our own images like in the old forum.

    Empty pages. It doesn't happen that often, but it still happens. I open a thread, but there is nothing there aside from the EA banner at the top.

    Design. Like I said, the design certainly is more visually appealing, but stick to a single constant design. A few months ago, it kept switching from an EA design to a Khoros (or whatever it was) style. A few days ago, the way the threads showed up on a page had a different design than right now.

    Show more. Like you said Seedy, it can become a bit frustrating having to click the "Show more" button who knows how many times just in one thread. I wouldn't mind not being automatically taken to the last place I was in a thread, but I would appreciate it if I could simply scroll down through a thread instead of having to click the same button over and over again.

    These are for the most part minor compared to the issues we had a while ago. Still, even just a bit of improvement can do great good sometimes.

  • Agree.

    Threads seem to default to most liked first every time for me, so scrolling down and reading is generally an incoherent mess, unless I remember to select the order before I start reading.

    I used to spend a lot of time on the old forums. A couple of visits per day was normal. Learning stuff, reading opinions, sharing things I'd learnt. Some long threads were well worth the scrolling and reading multiple pages of what was said. 

    Now I might visit the forums a couple of times a month, and pretty much just go to the announcements. Seeing this thread at all was a very rare visit to the general discussion page.

    I don't see my habits changing while these forums stay as they are. 

  • MaxBane83's avatar
    MaxBane83
    Rising Rookie
    16 days ago

    I would add to the list:

    Arrangement of Replies. Replies to Posts in SWGOH Game Info Hub can be sorted by Most Likes, Oldest or Newest. This kind of option is not available in the regular forum or there is no obvious way to do it. Extending this option alone to the rest of the forum would be a great improvement for content navigation.

  • The info hub is ridiculous. I have to scroll past messages that were posted months ago to reach the newest updates. And the sign-in is ridiculous. This website seriously needs a fix. 

  • chpMINIsolo's avatar
    chpMINIsolo
    New Ace
    16 days ago

    It would be great if when you respond to a particular post in the thread the replies would be together right below and indented. It used to be like that, but now the replies just get added to the bottom of the list 

  • Finalistic_Kleo's avatar
    Finalistic_Kleo
    Rising Hotshot
    16 days ago

    When there were too many answers, the "tree" of answers becomes inconvenient. The current look of the forum is more pleasant than it was 0.5 years ago.

  • chpMINIsolo's avatar
    chpMINIsolo
    New Ace
    16 days ago

    Disagree. Especially when you need to repeatedly hit “read more”.

    Responses to individual posts in the thread are much easier to follow along with when they are in a tree format, not at the very bottom of the entire list of posts

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