Octopuss wrote: »

Since the site feedback thread is locked and was never meant to get feedback about the forums, let's make one.
Please only post meaningful related stuff, not "omgz fix teh gam", or basically anything unrelated to the forum functionality.

I'll start by listing features that I feel are missing.

1) Mark all forums read.
This is a feature that basically EVERY OTHER forum has, so I am completely puzzled why it's not here.

2) Mark a subforum read.
This feature is here, but it's clumsy and annoying at best. Instead of doing this from a weird drop down menu on the main page, move this inside the subforums as simple links. Less clicks = a lot more user friendly. Also, the current implementation makes it even worse because of the loading times. Also, after you mark a subforum read, you are taken to the top of the main page. Annoying!

3) Search.
This basically doesn't work at all. Again, most if not all other forums have the ability to search in titles only, and all the other usual advanced things. Here, you search for something and get completely weird and useless results you cannot even filter by date. Also what appears to be an attempt to advanced search is ONLY available AFTER you search for something. This makes no sense at all!
Please, give us proper advanced search feature. You can get inspiration in pretty much any free forum software.

4) Classic thread subscription and other related stuff.
There's no way to unwatch threads you no longer are interested in, no easy way to track your own threads (it's here, but it's annoying having to click through various pages instead of having everything related centralized). There's no filtering, notifications lack further customizations (I had to disable them to stop getting spammed by every single new reply in a thread I started).


Lastly, the horrible long loading times. There's no reason why it should take up to four seconds to initially load the forum, and up to two seconds to open anything else. There's something badly wrong with either the infrastructure or the forum software itself (my guess).


I am not sure if ZOS staff reads everything (I'd guess not for obvious reasons), so if anyone knows relevant names, please invoke them.