Redo Dev Tracker Please

Huggernaut · May 2014

The jumbled wall of posts that is the dev tracker is terrible.

It doesn't show the time / date of the post, it's just a chaotic jumble of blurbs that looks like it was ripped out of the back of someones old high school year book.

Also, don't cut them off.

By this I mean, just let it run on, the more you scroll down the older the posts get. However, if you've been on Vacation, or had a terribly busy work week and would like to scroll back through a week or two of posts for anything important the devs might have said ... it's nice to have that option.

Just have them as short highlighted links that scroll down, top to bottom, newest to oldest, in point form with dates & times.

What is so difficult about this?

P.s. Stop auto-hiding the agrees / lol / etc at the bottom of posts. There is ZERO need for a hidden roll over there. I bet half the people that use the forums don't even know those exist because they've never moused over the bottom of the post to reveal them.

Carnage2K4 · May 2014

They should also call it "Mod Tracker"
There has only really been one Dev post... The forum Mods didn't develop the game.
A few don't even understand issues people have.

kaze_mizuno_ESO · May 2014

100% agree with this. For other MMOs, a dev tracker (or mod tracker) is fairly common to see, either on the official website, or aggregated by a fan site, such as MMO-Champion's "Blue Tracker" for dev and CM posts on the World of Warcraft forums.

At first, when I searched for something similar for ESO, I was very happy to see it was something on the official website, not relegated to a fan site. Then I actually looked at it, and...it's a jumbled mess. For whatever reason, this sort of "uneven window panes" style has become very popular lately for things like news and blog sites with a large number of postings. I believe the idea is to maximize the amount that can be seen on one screen without scrolling. Unfortunately, the actual result is a bit of a confusing mess.

I understand the desire to be unique, but there is also such a thing as "If it's not broke, don't fix it." Have a look at MMO-Champion's "Blue Tracker" here:

blue.mmo-champion.com/

No one wants to make this game more like WoW, myself included, but there's a reason the format of MMO-Champion has worked for the better part of a decade. It's simple, and just as importantly, it's comprehensive. It's a list, sorted by date, rather than a jumble of uneven tiles. It has multiple pages that go back as far as need be, rather than reaching the end of the most recent posts and just...stopping (That's particularly bad on a big patch day like today. 10 PM EST, I couldn't even see things that had been posted earlier this afternoon).

alenae1b14_ESO · May 2014

Really, this Dev tracker is so hard to follow, this isn't pin interest, just show us the freaking posts and let us choose the language.

kaze_mizuno_ESO · May 2014

I did notice a small change recently. If you reach the bottom of the page, it automatically loads more, instead of just stopping (which led to older posts being much more difficult to find). It's a step in the right direction, but without more comprehensive changes, it's still like playing "Where's Waldo?" with posts.

I know there's a lot on the plate right now, but hopefully the forum design team isn't the same as the game development or bug fixers, so there's no reason change here can't happen as well.

I'm just going to be blunt. The tiles do not work well for this type of content. Please give us an ordered list, or at least a filter to organize it as such.