Feedback: Official Forums

[Gaile Gray.6029]

Welcome to our new official forums! We're glad you're here, and hope you enjoy all the improvements these forums offer you.

 

Please post your input about the forums here. If you encounter a forum bug, please share the details in this thread. If you find a graphical or visual bug, please host a screenshot on a photo-sharing site and provide a link. This thread is intended to discuss forum features and functionality.

 

We will be gathering your input and will address issues as soon as we are able to do so.

 

 

 

[Thoom.9653]

The old forums had a great feature where there were arrows to navigate between ArenaNet posts in a thread. Any chance of that making a comeback?

[Moyayuki.3619]

Will forums for Living World, HoT, etc. be created?

Also, as much as I am loving the new look of the forums, I think that the overall forum view has too many spaces between forums, if that makes sense. I don't want to feel like I need to scroll a lot. Other than that, great work! I love we can have avatars, now, so we can tell each other apart! Will we eventually be able to choose our own images (as long as they follow basic rules of decency, of course)?

[Pompeia.5483]

Obligatory request for dark theme/night mode :)

[Pifil.5193]

The old forums had a great feature where'd they'd break every 50 posts, will that be a feature here too? ;)

 

Great news! Thanks for the new forums!

[Maressa.3509]

It has been stated elsewhere but for the sake of keeping everything in one place...

 

There are a lot of lines on the page which are really distracting, especially since they aren't complete lines and break up quite a bit. When threads get longer it's going to be very messy.

[Kevjoe.6172]

One suggestion which springs to mind is more avatars. We need way more of them!

Next to that, I think this is quite an improvement, other than that it will take some readjustment.

[psizone.8437]

Will the 'Reactions' be updated with all comments/posts from the previous forums or will it begin from scratch?

[SpecterMAT.7306]

Oh hai.

It's might be me, but I think the current wrapper width is too big and uncomfortable to read.

Currently the max-width is 1167px and the wrapper usually for easier read is around 940-960px.

Here is an image about how it would look like:


 

 

 

[TheSlothArmada.6709]

I don't know why but the space between each post feels too close.

You can tell when there is another post, but it doesn't feel like there is enough distinction between each one. . .

[BlaqueFyre.5678]

Now the important Question, does the Search function actually work on this forum?

[ParagonPaladin.7516]

While scrolling, I would suggest shrinking the avatars for "started by" and "most recent" user. They're a bit large and distracting!

[Winderly.2718]

"terrific features, including:

...Search Engine"

Really ? We will finally have a functional search feature ? Skritt !

[Lucis.3156]

Good job Anet on the forums facelift:D

(Small request: Nightmode pls)

[Dondarrion.2748]

First impression immediately after logging in; nice, simplistic look & feel.

Will post more when I get a hang of what's going on ;)

[Ithir Darkleaf.7923]

This was a total surprise! After 5 years I thought a new forum wasn't on the works at all and... oh boy.

Thank you so much for this ArenaNet, you totally made my day :D

[joeyw.9531]

So much faster for me o/

[WhatLiesBeneath.9018]

Total surprise! I love it, I'm excited to see how much often I will be here :) Great design and easier for the eyes.

[FrouFrou.4958]

While trying to edit my signature it says I don't have permission to change it, is it disabled from us mere plebs or is it something that gets unlocked later on?

 

edit: Also when people hit Thumbs Up or whatever, the icons below the post are quite massive. Could those be shrinked down a bit?

[gebrechen.5643]

I think it looks good. Not sure about the speed on mobile yet, but I will soon know

[OriOri.8724]

Lot nicer, but there is a lot of empty space now. Posts feel very spread out, which is great for mobile, not so great for desktop viewing. Could you guys shrink the white-space above/below each post, and surrounding each users' "nameplate" such that posts take up less vertical space?

[Hya.5168]

(copy&paste from another thread, as this is the better place for it)

The new forum is nice, but posts are hard to read (especially those short), because it is a mess of text with member name, posts, thumb ups and toolbar below each post. It will be helpful to have each post in a "box" and/or reduce the size of thumb ups and toolbar below or another way of distinction. :)

Otherwise, good work!

 

Edit: Just a quick mock-up how it may work: https://i.imgur.com/nXRGTjy.jpg

 

 

[khani.4786]

I would very much like a dark/night theme. The stark white background keeps me from posting much of the time.

 

More avatars would also be nice. The ones we have are awesome and I wouldn't want pages and pages of them, but options like Skritt, quaggan, largos, the racial symbols, catmander/commander tag would be good additions.

 

I'm not a fan of how spaced out everything feels, but I'll get used to that. Mostly I want a dark theme. Thanks for the forum update!

[Kaltyn of Torbins Deep.294]

> @Pompeia.5483 said:

> Obligatory request for dark theme/night mode :)

 

This is actually a very valid point. White takes more power to generate than black, or even the darker colors. Haven't looked at the mobile site, but if bright white is it will have an impact on battery life.

[AegisRunestone.8672]

> @FrouFrou.4958 said:

> While trying to edit my signature it says I don't have permission to change it, is it disabled from us mere plebs or is it something that gets unlocked later on?

 

You get to unlock it when you become a "Veteran." Which is obtained through getting positive feedback from posts (thumbs up, helpful).

 

I have a question: I checked the "How do I...?" section and I didn't see anything about Private Messages. How do we send those?

 

Thanks, Gaile. :)