Forum Changes

Combat Wombat · #1 March 5th, 2005, 04:53 AM

Well if somehow you haven't noticed there have been some major changes to the forum. What does everyone think? Personally I don't like the ads down the left side. But what little other changes there were are fine with me.

Richard · #2 March 5th, 2005, 04:55 AM

They aren't ads, their the press releases from the front page. Based on feedback we have received we wanted to make sure everyone knew what was going on with Shrapnel in case they did not go to the front page on a regular basis.

For instance say if we had a new SE:IV related announcement folks who just come straight to the forum will hear about it last.

Fyron · #3 March 5th, 2005, 04:58 AM

They take up way too much space in my opinion... could they be reduced in vertical size?

Combat Wombat · #4 March 5th, 2005, 05:00 AM

Also maybe a max of 5 instead of 7.

Sivran · #5 March 5th, 2005, 05:02 AM

Put them silly ads on top, in a nice adblokcable iframe.

Richard · #6 March 5th, 2005, 05:02 AM

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Imperator Fyron said:
They take up way too much space in my opinion... could they be reduced in vertical size?

I take it you have the other forums closed, with just SE:IV forum open. If that is the case then the posts would scroll downwards, past your active forums, and unless you scrolled downwards would not affect you.

Richard · #7 March 5th, 2005, 05:06 AM

Okay guys this format is a compromise based on feedback we have received from folks over the last 6 months. We have been testing it for the last few weeks in various browsers and resolutions and we think it's a pretty good fit.

Again those aren't ad's, they are press releases about games shipping, patches being released, etc. All of that information is useful to the entire community and is not just advertising.

I expect it will take some getting used to, but any time we change the forum we expect that.

Joachim · #8 March 5th, 2005, 05:49 PM

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Richard said:

Again those aren't ad's, they are press releases about games shipping, patches being released, etc. All of that information is useful to the entire community and is not just advertising.

Playing silly semantic games is only going to irritate users and customers (no wait, lets be equally foolish and call ourselves something else - what about 'Shrapnel down line testers' or 'Shrapnel co-funders').

And the boards just look ugly at the moment.

Sivran · #9 March 5th, 2005, 05:07 AM

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Richard said:

I take it you have the other forums closed, with just SE:IV forum open. If that is the case then the posts would scroll downwards, past your active forums, and unless you scrolled downwards would not affect you.

Huh wha? I don't get what you're saying. I suppose you're talking about something I could possibly do from the front page of the overall shrapnel forums or something I could do with threaded view..

Captain Kwok · #10 March 5th, 2005, 05:09 AM

Richard, I think the news links etc. on the left margin would be better suited on the right margin.