Forum feedback thread (functionality, NOT content/moderation)

Runschei · November 2017

I would like a function for you to see tje comments and threads you have voted agree/awesome/insightful on. Not for everyone else to see who you have voted on, but YOU and YOUR EYES only.

Octopuss · November 2017

GrumpyDuckling wrote: »

Octopuss wrote: »

The forum doesn't take you to first unread post of a thread when you click on it, but on last post instead.
How anyone in his right mind can program it like this is beyond what I can understand.

I said the forum was completely useless and I was correct.

"Completely useless?" Why are you on the forum if it's "completely useless?"

This forum is very useful for reading information on patches/changes to the game, and the pop-ups giving information on events are extremely helpful to those of us who wouldn't know about them otherwise.

Ok, not useless. Complete crap from technical point of view sounds better to you?

Mojmir · November 2017

I'd also like a back too top button on the bottom as well as some way to hide quotes inside posts if that's possible.

Glaiceana · November 2017

Thank you for adding the "Participated" section into the top bar, that is really helpful! Having to constantly go into account options to reach them was very annoying

OutLaw_Nynx · November 2017

Blocking people should completely block someone. They shouldn’t be able to see my post and vice versa..

Mettaricana · November 2017

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Taking a page from Rich and doing a /lurk on this thread.

Remove the question answered popup on mobile im not gonna go back and click yes on 100 pages of questions either remove or gimme a check all delete option. Also remove the save as draft pop up it blocks the submit button on all my devices.

Remove and close old sticky threads on pts this last round was a nightmare.

Gimme use for forums points

Octopuss · November 2017

Opening a thread from the participated link STILL switches the forum to a different language (gb to us for example).
The top bar with dev tracker takes even longer to load than few days ago.

What are you doing over there? Wait, let me answer it myself - nothing.

Glaiceana · November 2017

OutLaw_Nynx wrote: »

Blocking people should completely block someone. They shouldn’t be able to see my post and vice versa..

Seconding this. The ignore function basically doesn't work. I still see their threads, and you even see their main thread post as well, and you see their quoted messages.

Octopuss · November 2017

And yet another missing feature:: It's impossible to sort your own discussions by various criteria.
Seriously, have the people who coded this never seen a forum before?

Tandor · November 2017

Octopuss wrote: »

The forum doesn't take you to first unread post of a thread when you click on it, but on last post instead.
How anyone in his right mind can program it like this is beyond what I can understand.

I said the forum was completely useless and I was correct.

It always takes me to the first unread post of a thread - provided, of course, I'm logged in and was logged in when I last visited the thread. That's on my PCs, I've no idea about on my phone as I don't bother to log in on that as I never post with it.

Octopuss · November 2017

It's a hit and miss really. Sometimes it indeed does, and quite often it doesn't.
And when it does, the damn horizontal links bar covers the upper part of the post. I'm just like WTF?! every time I have to use the forums.

RANKK7 · November 2017

People keep posting about bugs and issue about their main class in the General Section to get more attention.

BIG slap in the face to anyone posting in the appropriate section and not polluting the General Section with non-gerenal-at-all threads for which a dedicated section exists.

At this point I guess it's useless to behave properly in here, will start posting in the General section instead of the bug section and anyone could be encouraged to do the same since it seems there is no problem at all.

Misrule at its best.

Octopuss · November 2017

RANKK7 wrote: »

People keep posting about bugs and issue about their main class in the General Section to get more attention.

BIG slap in the face to anyone posting in the appropriate section and not polluting the General Section with non-gerenal-at-all threads for which a dedicated section exists.

At this point I guess it's useless to behave properly in here, will start posting in the General section instead of the bug section and anyone could be encouraged to do the same since it seems there is no problem at all.

Misrule at its best.

You're in the wrong thread too.

RANKK7 · November 2017

Octopuss wrote: »

RANKK7 wrote: »

People keep posting about bugs and issue about their main class in the General Section to get more attention.

BIG slap in the face to anyone posting in the appropriate section and not polluting the General Section with non-gerenal-at-all threads for which a dedicated section exists.

At this point I guess it's useless to behave properly in here, will start posting in the General section instead of the bug section and anyone could be encouraged to do the same since it seems there is no problem at all.

Misrule at its best.

You're in the wrong thread too.

This is a Forum feedback thread, I'm not off topic at all since I'm leaving my feedback.

Octopuss · November 2017

RANKK7 wrote: »

This is a Forum feedback thread, I'm not off topic at all since I'm leaving my feedback.

No, the point of this thread is to leave feedback regarding the functionality of the forum itself. Nothing else.

RANKK7 · November 2017

Octopuss wrote: »

RANKK7 wrote: »

This is a Forum feedback thread, I'm not off topic at all since I'm leaving my feedback.

No, the point of this thread is to leave feedback regarding the functionality of the forum itself. Nothing else.

Well it's not very functional the General Section when you have to dig among a lot of bug reports, build questions and nerf crusaders while there are appropriate sections for bug and combat, skills and builds.

edit: I see the thread title has been changed, the title wasn't that at the time I've posted, months ago.

"NOT content" part has been added. Just getting things straight.

SirAndy · November 2017

Octopuss wrote: »

Seriously, have the people who coded this never seen a forum before?

This is a pretty common off the shelve forum software, so you should probably direct that question to the creators of said software. They have a website where you can contact them.

Defilted · November 2017

Can we please get a do not agree button?..

TequilaFire · November 2017

RANKK7 wrote: »

People keep posting about bugs and issue about their main class in the General Section to get more attention.

BIG slap in the face to anyone posting in the appropriate section and not polluting the General Section with non-gerenal-at-all threads for which a dedicated section exists.

At this point I guess it's useless to behave properly in here, will start posting in the General section instead of the bug section and anyone could be encouraged to do the same since it seems there is no problem at all.

Misrule at its best.

I could apply your logic to almost any thread in the General forum and move all of them to sub forums including your post which would get moved to a complaints sub forum.

Where does it end? I mean the General forum would be empty because we are not permitted to talk about anything not ESO related.

General section on almost any forum contains a mixed bag of subjects this is nothing new.

Octopuss · January 2018

Several maintenances later, it's "nice" to see how they don't give a crap.
Why did we even waste time trying to point out what needs to be added or improved on the forum.

TheRealPotoroo · January 2018

Octopuss wrote: »

Several maintenances later, it's "nice" to see how they don't give a crap.
Why did we even waste time trying to point out what needs to be added or improved on the forum.

True that. The forum remains as almost unusably bad as it's been since the Great Revamp.

Octopuss · January 2018

I just don't understand why they at least don't compare the features with something like phpBB and sort of copy behaviour of certain parts of it, like search and the way subscribing to threads work.

Octopuss · January 2018

Oh LOL, they managed to break the forum language setting. ALL links now default to the US version.
(it didn't work half the time before anyway, but now they managed to kill it completely)

rootimus · January 2018

Octopuss wrote: »

Oh LOL, they managed to break the forum language setting. ALL links now default to the US version.
(it didn't work half the time before anyway, but now they managed to kill it completely)

Assuming (I know!) that the language selection is built into the forum software, rather than something ZOS have hacked together, you have to admit breaking it is an impressive feat.

Zaldan · January 2018

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Taking a page from Rich and doing a /lurk on this thread.

@ZOS replies not showing up on dev tracker, coders really need a kick up the whatsit if this still isn't automatic

although calling it Dev Tracker is a bit of an oxymoron, maybe change it to Z Tracker as 95% of the posts aren't from devs

ZOS_GinaBruno · January 2018

Zaldan wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Taking a page from Rich and doing a /lurk on this thread.

@ZOS replies not showing up on dev tracker, coders really need a kick up the whatsit if this still isn't automatic although calling it Dev Tracker is a bit of an oxymoron, maybe change it to Z Tracker as 95% of the posts aren't from devs

Staff and dev replies are manually flagged for the Dev Tracker, so this is working as intended - each person chooses which replies appear.

Octopuss wrote: »

Oh LOL, they managed to break the forum language setting. ALL links now default to the US version.
(it didn't work half the time before anyway, but now they managed to kill it completely)

Can you explain this in a bit more detail, please? Is it links that are in posts, or links on the actual page (such as Recent or Participated)?

Glaiceana · January 2018

Since December, when we go to our profile and look at our reactions, you can no longer see the number of reactions to a comment next to the three types. Small bug, but thought I'd point it out.

ZOS_GinaBruno · January 2018

Glaiceana wrote: »

Since December, when we go to our profile and look at our reactions, you can no longer see the number of reactions to a comment next to the three types. Small bug, but thought I'd point it out.

Yeah, that's a bug that Vanilla is working on fixing. Thanks for the heads up!

Octopuss · January 2018

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Octopuss wrote: »

Oh LOL, they managed to break the forum language setting. ALL links now default to the US version.
(it didn't work half the time before anyway, but now they managed to kill it completely)

Can you explain this in a bit more detail, please? Is it links that are in posts, or links on the actual page (such as Recent or Participated)?

Say you switch your forum language to English Int'l.
When you open the main forum page, take a look at the links to forum sections. All of them have hardcoded "en". This should dynamically change based on your language preference, so in my case "en-gb".
This worked until recently.
I have to point out that the bar with dev tracker has the links in correct "format", but the pages that open when you click on any of these are broken again.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Staff and dev replies are manually flagged for the Dev Tracker, so this is working as intended - each person chooses which replies appear.

Don't you think this should be automatic?
These posts more often than not have extremely valuable information in them.

Feric51 · January 2018

This might be a feature that I haven't figured out yet, but is there a way to see who gives my posts an "awesome/agree/insightful"?

Since we can't give this feedback to our own posts, could it be set up where if we click "agree" we see a list of user names of those who have previously "agreed" with that same post?