For those who are new, this is a weekly post where you can share your praises/complaints/wish features for our forum, game pages, content, etc. So, have at it and let us know your thoughts! (Sorry about the late post by the way).
Also, here's something more specific we could focus on for this week:
Some of our users have raised concerns on the current format of our forum, with the main issue around our forum's nature of aggregating all user posts. Because the general discussion and game-specific posts are all displayed on the main forum page, it can make it difficult to have a focused discussion around a specific game without generating threads that can go off-topic. To clarify, the main issue isn't that there are off-topic discussions happening, but that the nature of the current format makes it unclear when it's appropriate/desired or not.
Another issue that's been on my mind is that our current format isn't suitable for rapid growth in our community. If you think about how fast some of the posts can get buried even after a day, imagine how difficult it'll be to keep up with the pace if we grew 100x in size (and that's still nowhere near the size we want to be at).
So, here are some of my thoughts before I share my ideas for a solution:
With that said, here are some of my ideas (please feel free to comment on this/add your own suggestions). Some of these ideas have already been discussed in the past and were going to be implemented in the near future:
Well, that's all I have for now so let me know what you think!
Next week, let's focus on how we can revamp the game pages :D
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Sliddell11 14 months ago
These are all great ideas @philryuh! One thing that might be a cool idea, is if on a particular forum post, every beginning comment of a thread that you have commented on would be highlighted. That way when you’re scrolling down the super long “what did you play this week” post, you know where to go instead of having to closely examine every line.
Another small thing I’ve noticed however, is that when I tap on the drop down tab up top (on my phone), then the “lists” link, it just takes me to my profile and not my actual lists. Not a huge thing, just something small that takes a little more effort than anticipated.
CaptainPossum Supporter14 months ago
Are there plans to make recorded plays editable at some point? Thanks
slapsgiving14 Supporter14 months ago
I mentioned in another post, but I would love a way to eventually sort through my plays. I will say that I used to never log plays because I felt it was cumbersome but now it's much better. But it would be cool to customize it. What did I play in 2019 for instance or 2020. Maybe allow for color customization. I'd especially love to see the option to give each game a color. That way when you're looking at it there is some difference besides size. And... circle graphs.
Skurvy5 Supporter14 months ago
Phil, as always, you are thoughtful and spot on with your comments. I think you’ve got the right idea with your plan in point #4. Your suggestions sound reasonable and practical. Let’s give it a shot!
I know I’ve been guilty of taking Threads off topic, and I agree that we should be more careful of this as the website grows.
I think the idea of community guidelines is a good idea.
theDL Premium User14 months ago
I agree, I like @philryuh's suggestion in #4 to have different views for the forum, and I love the idea of having a customizable forum "front page" with all of your subscriptions. I also strongly agree with #2 - we need guidelines for the forums. Both conduct roles and content/topic guidelines.
As for having content creators post a ton of links but having them not show in the general forum, I also have mixed feelings. It definitely sucks to spend time posting things and then have no one comment, or just have one person comment "Cool" just to get another point in the giveaway (not that I'm not guilty of that myself). But you're right - flooding the forum with tons of links wouldn't be good either. This would kind of change how the forum works I think, but you could set a rule that if they're posting links for more than X games in a day, the kind of build them all at once on one page and just got submit once. Then in the forum it would just say something like "TheDiceTower posted 800 links" (lol). Then that post could just have the list of links they posted with the names of the games they're associated with. This way only one part shows up on the forum instead of 800. This might be a crazy idea but I'm just spit-balling.
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Marshwiggle92 Supporter14 months ago
After having thought about this for a bit I think I can say I like most of @philryuh's suggestions. Here is what I think I would do.