These Forums Are Terrible

Ishau

I am typically not a negative person, but these forums are set up so terribly that I couldn't believe a company of this size created it. Many things need to happen in my opinion.

1.) Split the different languages better. When you log into the forums there should only be 3 headings. English, French and German. Everything should be under those headings. I shouldn't click on Official News and Patch Notes and see stuff from other languages in there, it should only be English. Each Language gets there own section and doesn't have to put up with English when they want to view something either.

2.)Give me the option to filter out posts from other languages when clicking on Development Tracker or Recent Posts. There should be an option in profile that I can say untick French and German posts so they no longer show up in Recent Posts.

3.)There forum design is quite poor in my opinion. It's not an attractive place to navigate.

4.)Give us a General Discussion. I tried to post this in Game Discussions as to not spam Customer Support, but with the current layout this is the only place you can actually post stuff in.

It's just a shame such a great game is let down by such poor forums.

alleigha

Amen!

willpascoe24prb19_ESO

Many of us have said the same thing.

Jumas

+1

vencibushy

It take some time to get used to. However I do agree that the board is quite annoying and poorly designed.

Akaasha

Other games kept the beta-forums and a couple of months after the release they updated them with a new skin. I do agree that they aren't great and are hard to browse.

class101

/signed

Some help for the webmaster

http://blog.vanillaforums.com/help/tips-creating-categories-vanilla-forums/

Etchesketch

So bad that I don't bother with categories. I just click recent discussions and read/post from there.

Nimerian

+1 Ishau, completely agree, one of the worst forums Ive seen, and definitely the worst forum Ive seen in a game of this size. They throw all the languages together, that is a world first in cheap+non functional design, no general discussion omg. They should take you as a site designer and even if U have absolutely no web design skills I believe you will do a better job at this.

geo_twinkertoes

up vote

amm7sb14_ESO

Yes I agree. Difficult forum is difficult.

pignouf

Yes put an option to filter languages according to our region settings in our profile.

spliffmaster2b16_ESO

Also wish there was RSS available for the Dev tracker.

Bollerlotte

A jump-button, to next costumer support comment, might be functional too.

Right now there are threads of the actual ongoing maintenance, 22pages+ and that low-visible, not yet highlighted costumer-support post is hard to find.

Turelus

They have said they're looking into improvements for the forums including updating the Dev Tracker to be a list format rather than the weird box style it is now.
I like some of the features of the forums being able to tag someone with a name drop is awesome! I do wish it was more organised though with sperate sections for "Features & Ideas" so they don't get berried in the rants here and a "General Discussion" section for more common talks leaving this section for just issues with the game.

Ironclap

The worst part is that we can't set a language to filter out the two others, it's a disaster to navigate especially the announcement and server status sections.

dannymcgr81b14_ESO

I have to agree with this. I can't imagine what the designer was thinking when he or she came up with this format. If you can read multiple languages you don't want to read the same post three times and if you can't read more than one that makes two-thirds of the forums useless. I like to read the dev tracker but it's like a treasure hunt trying to find the few posts that I can read.

randomaffliction66

Ruh roh the forum police are on there way to edit your thread and shut you down.

Myrdreth

Etchesketch wrote: »

So bad that I don't bother with categories. I just click recent discussions and read/post from there.

I do the same. It's like they want to make it more difficult for us. It's really confusing.

lleddy0804

Completely agree!

lichmeister

the whole forum just feels weird but im sure we can adapt.but,yeah, seeing all the foreign language posts is kind of annoying. mostly when searching through the dev tracker or the official posts (patch notes, news, etc)

Tuktuck

/signed

sylviermoone

Just out of curiosity.....is anyone else having issues with it being in the wrong language? My specs are set to English, and all of the text is usually in English. Today for some reason, it is randomly in German. All the places where it says "agree", " quote" "views", " comments".

Just kind of odd.

Morrawind

Not much worse than the guildstores for searching.

Wrekkoning

Omg a buggy craptastic game has lame craptastic forums. Imagine that:)

Sakiri

My one friend with constant crash issues wont even come here for tech support he hates the layout so much.

He goes to reddit instead. That says a LOT.

Drazhar14

I agree, the languages should be split into completely different forums at the very least, and there should be a general discussion section for ideas and changes instead of using the customer support forum for that (like this topic did).

theyancey

Beta forum was much better.

Malphas1

Same trouble... oh! I mean: agree!

Moobs

Yeah, worst forum layout I've ever seen.

Ironclap

Navigating these forums is like scrolling on a page with round knife for a mouse wheel