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 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.
Progress?
I feel at this point that we've made out views pretty clear. The new forums have a number of serious issues - no avatars, no page numbers, no subforums, bad sorting, unstable logins, getting rerouted, long load times, etc. At this point, new feedback is just repeating the old. What I think we all want now is to hear from folks running this show. So, I'll ask the impertinent question... because it's what I do. What progress is being made to address the issues?
RSS Feed and Consistent Order
It would be nice if an RSS feed were available for the new SWGOH Game Info Hub. In the old forum I used this to send new posts to a Discord webhook. In the new forum, however, this is currently not available and a consistent parsing of the page is not really practicable, since the order of the "all-posts" view is completely confused by the migration. Posts from 15 hours ago that were originally posted in March are displayed there. So please give us back the RSS feed.
Suggestion: Ability to Set Nickname
Coming from the sims forums, its a little strange to now have the forum name be the same as my EA ID. I'm not a fan as I'd much rather have them be separate. Could there possibly be the option to set a forum nickname or change our forum name to something other than our EA ID?Forum Post migration help
(reposting here, I had this in the wrong section oops!) A few of my original posts from the old forums were nominated and moved here to the new forums. However they appear to be in the wrong section. Does anyone know who I need to reach out to get that fixed? All of my posts are for challenges I made so they should go in that section to make them easier to find for others
Quirks...
Forums are starting to go quirky on me, anyone else? It signs me out all of the time, the screen keeps going white (on my PC, I have not checked this from my phone), and my notifications completely erased (I had a whole page full yesterday and today they're just gone) and I'm not getting any new notifications? I know it's going to take a bit to work all the quirks out, just wanted to bring attention the problems I am having with the new forums just in case it helps 😁
