New forum options, please vote!

My hope here is that most of the issues raised about this site will be addressed, soon-ish if not soon.  I don't know that they will be, but reading between the lines of various posts from EA_Nils et al, many of the problems would take real time (conversations with the forum host, dev time, testing) to solve.  Some features may have to be built from scratch.  The fact that we haven't seen changes yet doesn't mean those changes are off the table.  And this site is new, and many new projects don't start out with the full complement of features even when those features are anticipated well in advance.

I'm not suggesting that people keep using this site in the interim if it doesn't feel good, or right, or fun.  But I do hope that people looking for a Sims forum experience will at least check back here and there to see how this site evolves as time goes by, if it becomes a place worth using again.

The worst outcome I can see would be that everyone gives up and stops advocating for the features we know we want, and EA doesn't implement those features because it appears that no one still around considers them important.  So for everyone uncomfortable and unhappy here, please keep having these conversations, even if it's for the moment the only reason you show up at all.

I don't like MTS community site. 

I also feel this site is a dark and lonely site. It feels like it separates in a way I don't understand. 

I wouldn't mind the old TS2 site format (with pictures) or TS3 site. This site feels unwelcoming. 

If we do decide to migrate, I think Mod the Sims would probably be a better idea because it already has a structure very similar to the one we are used to. 

 If the majority of the Sims 3 community decides to migrate I will follow wherever the majority decides to go. But I would actually prefer to stay here for a while and, as @puzzleaddict suggested, continue having these conversations in the hope that they are listening. I do play a little Sims 4 too, and I like to see screenshots of new content when it comes out regardless of whether I'm going to buy it. I'm interested in reading news about the Sims 5 too. For these reasons I would prefer to stay here - and also, the Sims 3 is a game that is still being sold. I would like new Sims 3 players to be able to find us!

(As for story threads, I'm trying out something in my own story thread to make reading easier: making links to all my replies in the OP, as well as making all the replies link to each other. It means that whenever I post a new update as a reply, I have to edit both the OP and the previous reply. It's a little more work, but I think it solves the problem of individual story threads. It doesn't help with communal threads like What Happened in Your Sims Game Today, though!)

Hi, most of you here probably won't know me as I tend to only lurk in the Sims 3 area (as I still play TS3) but am much more active in the Sims 4 area.

Anyway, I am really sympathetic with the issues you raise here and along with others I've been quite vocal myself about them in the feedback section of this forum. I wondered if you're aware that some simmers here took the initiative earlier this month to set up a forum called Sim Creatives for just this reason? It was set up by SnuffyBucket and some others and is being mainly used for storytelling and screenshot threads at the moment, though I hope it'll grow and expand.

It doesn't yet have many separate sections for Sims 3 as such, but it's only just got going so you might be interested in having a look anyway. It's another option for you to consider. To me, it works and feels just like our old forum, and so is a very calm and restful place if only to hang out for a while 🙂

PS I should add that while I am a member at Sim Creatives, I haven't given up on this place at all and I really hope that with time it will improve (even if we know we'll never have pages). While there are still simmers here, I'll still keep coming back.

No pages on threads? That's a dealbreaker. I'll cast my vote for MTS because all the orange might get a little tiresome, but if nothing is gonna change, then anywhere but here.... 

These forums (almost) makes me regret buying all the expansion packs for Sims 3. I wouldn't have bought them if it wasn't for the old forums. Fact.

And me playing Sims 4 or 5 or any other EA game in the future? You can forget about it.

In case anyone hasn't seen this already:

An update on the forums. | EA Forums - 4958254

Not every request is on the list, but many of them are.  And we have more tags in TS3 and a tech forum, so some progress has been made already.  Please keep posting feedback in the interim.

To me, It would have been easier just to keep the other forums open instead of shutting those down to create this hot mess. These forums are annoying, not user friendly and doesn't feel like the place for a storyteller.

Honestly for me, the fact that there are no pages is a dealbreaker already. It doesn't feel like forums. The site layout is ugly and unintuitive, in my opinion (but isn't that just like all the rest of EA's new features?)

After reading that post they made about updates, I don't think it'll change my feelings about the site even if they fix the performance issues. I would be more than happy to migrate to a site like ModTheSims since their forums are easy to navigate. 

I've always been more of a lurker than a poster even though I've been playing the sims for years, but I've wanted to be more active in the community for a long time. This new forum change is a bummer :/ why couldn't they just leave us alone in our little corner?

I think you know how I feel about hot mayo! It's not just this area...It's the whole site. I google EA forums and I get some member from 7-10 yrs ago as my log in destination. This place is 2 months old and ready to die....( glitch ditch. I want to throw a tantrum.) but I can't.

The forum is drowning and thirsty( not in the slang context 👀). Seriously can I not yell at my phone enough looking  cray cray on the street. It's really the bubbly bloop bloop  loading....... glitch that gets me when I'm trying to see the most recent post only to bloop bloop bloop me back to most liked...

 I Can't Handle It.

Most liked is gonna get real ugly in a year form now if they can't even update that feature along with get rid of the scroll. I could spend all night here and I might be back.

I'm already on NRAAS and I've been hanging out more at Mod The Sims recently.