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Forum feedback thread (functionality, NOT content/moderation)

  • MissBizz
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    Octopuss wrote: »
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    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.
    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.

    AFAIK vanilla can't tell the difference between a moderator (be good guys!) post and a community manager/dev post... so then the dev tracker would be full of "We're reviewing this thread..." and random meme's from Gina on patch note days.

    Reason I'm pretty sure it's that way is that folks have previously requested that the "Z" shouldn't show up beside thread names when it's just a moderator post, and I'm sure the reasoning that can't happen is because it can't tell the difference.
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  • Octopuss
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    What is this vanilla you're talking about?
  • xSkullfox
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    Octopuss wrote: »
    What is this vanilla you're talking about?

    https://vanillaforums.com/en/software/
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  • Octopuss
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    Ah. I can see why Zenimax has been ignoring the feature requests - it's a 3rd party forum software. I thought they wrote it themselves.
    That's even worse :(
  • OutLaw_Nynx
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    There really needs to be a limit on how many threads you can created within a time span. I don’t need to name names because I think we all know who the common offenders are. It’s spam and all they want is more stars.
  • Auldjohn
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    Since the change the forum is horribly slow to scroll, and the lack of a scroll bar only adds insult to injury. I said it in the other thread and I'll say it again, I've got a Windforce GTX 980 but this forum feels like I'm using first generation Intel on-die graphics. It's unpleasant and unnecessarily frustrating. This is separate to the stupidity of making us stare at a blank screen for seconds at a time.

    Roll it back, ZoS. Admit you got this wrong.

    I have a scroll bar with Chrome Android. Need to screen pinch to find it on right side of screen.
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  • OutLaw_Nynx
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    I have no issues scrolling on my phone or laptop.
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    Edited by DoctorESO on September 23, 2018 1:05AM
  • OutLaw_Nynx
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    DoctorESO wrote: »
    There really needs to be a limit on how many threads you can created within a time span. I don’t need to name names because I think we all know who the common offenders are. It’s spam and all they want is more stars.

    You actually get more "stars" from comments than new threads. I think you also might be presuming that people actually care about forum stars. If someone doesn't want to read a thread, then they should just not read it. Sometimes, life is only as hard as you make it. ;)

    You make it impossible not to read your post, @DoctorESO. If you don’t care about stars why are you spamming? And why do you make like 12 threads in a week?

    Trust me, I would love to block you and never see your posts.
    Edited by OutLaw_Nynx on January 25, 2018 1:47PM
  • Octopuss
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    Any stars, post count, likes and similar should be removed. Then people wouldn't posthunt or something.
    I don't fully understand what the problem being discussed is though.
  • WIZZARD2K
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    Octopuss wrote: »
    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.

    I've noticed that it jumps to the correct anchor # on the comment, but then the top nav bar loads on top, always covering the post, unless we're at the bottom already. The solution would be to hide the nav bar upon loading a page accessed by an anchor, and load it as soon as the user starts scrolling.
  • TheRealPotoroo
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    Octopuss 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
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    I don't know about recently. I complained in this thread about that function being broken back in October last year but nobody paid any attention.

    https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/4541140/#Comment_4541140
    PC NA, PC EU

    "Instead of taking the best of the dolmens (predictable rotation), the best of the geysers (scalability based on number of players), and the best of the dragons (map location and health indicators) and adding them together to make a fun and dynamic world event scenario, they gave us....... harrowstorms." https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6850523/#Comment_6850523
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    Edited by DoctorESO on September 23, 2018 1:17AM
  • Tasear
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    Would be much nicer is new people could join easier. It's same acess-way since beta....
  • Streega
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    DoctorESO wrote: »
    There really needs to be a limit on how many threads you can created within a time span. I don’t need to name names because I think we all know who the common offenders are. It’s spam and all they want is more stars.

    You actually get more "stars" from comments than new threads. I think you also might be presuming that people actually care about forum stars. If someone doesn't want to read a thread, then they should just not read it. Sometimes, life is only as hard as you make it. ;)

    You make it impossible not to read your post, @DoctorESO. If you don’t care about stars why are you spamming? And why do you make like 12 threads in a week?

    Trust me, I would love to block you and never see your posts.

    I have a suggestion: remove the stars. ZOS crew knows anyway who, what and how much - and how useful the content you post is for the community.
    @DoctorESO, you stopped creating new threads, but instead you wrote around 100 comments in the past 24h. Are you a bot or something? Because for me it's not possible to eat, sleep, do chores, play ESO and write 100 comments on the forum within one day. You keep pushing important threads into oblivion, and you clog my Notifications with 5 or more meaningless comments in one topic, also pushing the other discussions I "pinned" down. If you don't care about the stars, why do you keep writing clusters of 3 comments one after another? Can't you find the "Edit" button? It's in top right corner, you know.
    Stop it. Unglue your eyes from the monitor, go spend some quality time with your family/friends/dog/cat/boat, or go and spam on Facebook or Reddit, if you must. Just stop polluting this forum with your excretions.
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    Edited by DoctorESO on September 23, 2018 1:30AM
  • Octopuss
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    Please leava this thread, you're polluting it with offtopic.
  • TheRealPotoroo
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    Octopuss 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 don't know about recently. I complained in this thread about that function being broken back in October last year but nobody paid any attention.

    https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/4541140/#Comment_4541140

    Still broken after the latest forum maintenance.

    @ZOS_GinaBruno
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    "Instead of taking the best of the dolmens (predictable rotation), the best of the geysers (scalability based on number of players), and the best of the dragons (map location and health indicators) and adding them together to make a fun and dynamic world event scenario, they gave us....... harrowstorms." https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6850523/#Comment_6850523
  • Tandor
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    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!

    I was hoping this would have been fixed in this week's forum maintenance, but sadly not so.
  • TheRealPotoroo
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    What's the deal with "Accepted Answer" icons chucking said post out of chronological order in the thread? It's highly irritating.
    PC NA, PC EU

    "Instead of taking the best of the dolmens (predictable rotation), the best of the geysers (scalability based on number of players), and the best of the dragons (map location and health indicators) and adding them together to make a fun and dynamic world event scenario, they gave us....... harrowstorms." https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6850523/#Comment_6850523
  • rfennell_ESO
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    I'll just put this out there...

    The moderation on these forums and the content on them is actually pretty good compared to many other games... and compared to some (cough *bungie* cough) it's downright amazing.

    The only issue I have is how they will remove snarky posts that were funny. They will trim humorous stuff if someone could possibly in some way be the butt of the joke.

    Trust me, I've had more posts *disappear* with the assorted insightful/agree/awesome's than anyone. I'll admit that in many cases I crossed the line, for sure.

    At least they tolerate my usually snarky or potentially insulting comments or vague accusations instead of warning me and temp banning me now.

    I think they show a fair deal of fairness in general...

    As for content on these forums, you might want to take a look at some other forums to compare. These are actually quite good and usually have some good informative posts.

    Keep that in mind if you disagree with someone here. This is a decent community. There are some bad seeds (I'm probably one of them at times), but it's really quite civil for the internet.

  • FloppyTouch
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    Bring back the LOL button please
  • Octopuss
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    I'll just put this out there...

    The moderation on these forums and the content on them is actually pretty good compared to many other games... and compared to some (cough *bungie* cough) it's downright amazing.

    The only issue I have is how they will remove snarky posts that were funny. They will trim humorous stuff if someone could possibly in some way be the butt of the joke.

    Trust me, I've had more posts *disappear* with the assorted insightful/agree/awesome's than anyone. I'll admit that in many cases I crossed the line, for sure.

    At least they tolerate my usually snarky or potentially insulting comments or vague accusations instead of warning me and temp banning me now.

    I think they show a fair deal of fairness in general...

    As for content on these forums, you might want to take a look at some other forums to compare. These are actually quite good and usually have some good informative posts.

    Keep that in mind if you disagree with someone here. This is a decent community. There are some bad seeds (I'm probably one of them at times), but it's really quite civil for the internet.

    You are completely offtopic.
    This thread is about the functionality of the forum software, not moderation or content.
  • Avran_Sylt
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    Add a notification if you're quoted by someone.
  • TheRealPotoroo
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    The International English selection is still being disrespected after all these months of complaining about it.

    https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/4541140/#Comment_4541140

    When will this be fixed, @ZOS_GinaBruno ? It used to work.
    PC NA, PC EU

    "Instead of taking the best of the dolmens (predictable rotation), the best of the geysers (scalability based on number of players), and the best of the dragons (map location and health indicators) and adding them together to make a fun and dynamic world event scenario, they gave us....... harrowstorms." https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6850523/#Comment_6850523
  • Octopuss
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    Also, at least two forum maintenances/upgrades later.
    This is completely hopeless :#
  • ecru
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    nice necro. i'd personally really like to see threads auto-locked after a certain period of time with no posts in them (a month or so?) to prevent people from bumping year+ old threads.
    Edited by ecru on April 2, 2018 6:11AM
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  • TheRealPotoroo
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    ecru wrote: »
    nice necro. i'd personally really like to see threads auto-locked after a certain period of time with no posts in them (a month or so?) to prevent people from bumping year+ old threads.

    Didn't pay much attention to the dates, did you. This thread got plenty of use in January and February, and a little in March. Far from being a necro, since we are complaining about problems that are old and on-going, it's this thread's longevity and continuity that makes it useful.
    PC NA, PC EU

    "Instead of taking the best of the dolmens (predictable rotation), the best of the geysers (scalability based on number of players), and the best of the dragons (map location and health indicators) and adding them together to make a fun and dynamic world event scenario, they gave us....... harrowstorms." https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6850523/#Comment_6850523
  • Octopuss
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    ecru wrote: »
    nice necro. i'd personally really like to see threads auto-locked after a certain period of time with no posts in them (a month or so?) to prevent people from bumping year+ old threads.
    If you have nothing constructive to add, feel free to leave instead of posting idiotic comments.

    The are legit complains about the forum functionality, and ZOS blatantly ignores everything.
  • TheRealPotoroo
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    Web site maintenance Wednesday.
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    "Instead of taking the best of the dolmens (predictable rotation), the best of the geysers (scalability based on number of players), and the best of the dragons (map location and health indicators) and adding them together to make a fun and dynamic world event scenario, they gave us....... harrowstorms." https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6850523/#Comment_6850523
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