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Joe Risalo
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-03-23 15:26:01 UTC
Obviously we're all annoyed with the disappearing post. CCP tried to address this with the forums creating drafts of what you're typing. However, the drafts themselves are f'd up and smash your entire post together. So any spaces and numbering schemes you may have used will have to be corrected. So obviously, the disappearing posts issue still needs some work.

However, there are some other issues.

When clicking the flag for your most recent notifications, it doesn't seperate old notifications that you've already viewed.
So if 3 people have posted since I created a thread, I click that notification and view them. However, 3 more people come in and post as well, but it doesn't seperate them, so now it's showing that I have 6 comments on that page.
When you're subscribed to more than one thread this can get very confusing. So there's 5 posts on this thread, 4 on this one, and 9 on this one, but I only have 5 new notifications since the last time I checked. So are all 5 of them on the same thread??

The simple fix for this is, every time I click a notification, whether it be a like or 5 comments, ERASE IT.. COMPLETELY. This way, I will automatically know that I haven't read any of the comments I've received through notifications.
Sure, maybe you can keep a back log in the actual notifications section, so when I click "see all notifications", I'll be able to click the back log and see all the notifications for the past weak or whatever.

I don't know why it insists on posting new notifications with old ones, thus getting it all mixed up, but they should fix it.
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#2 - 2012-03-23 15:29:46 UTC
Personally, I still copy-paste my posts. A few months worth of habit doesn't change overnight, lol.

As to the notifications, I have a feeling that it has to do with the way that the notifications system works. Personally, I still want to be able to get to older notifications now and then (for various reasons), I don't want them to delete old ones.
Joe Risalo
State War Academy
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-03-23 15:31:30 UTC
mxzf wrote:
Personally, I still copy-paste my posts. A few months worth of habit doesn't change overnight, lol.

As to the notifications, I have a feeling that it has to do with the way that the notifications system works. Personally, I still want to be able to get to older notifications now and then (for various reasons), I don't want them to delete old ones.


I figured that, which is why I suggested that the "see all notifications" link would have a back log of old notifications that you've already viewed and were deleted off the notifications flag.
Kiroma Halandri
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2012-03-23 17:31:29 UTC
I also wish that it told you which thread it was before you checked.
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Joe Risalo
State War Academy
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-03-23 18:14:50 UTC
Kiroma Halandri wrote:
I also wish that it told you which thread it was before you checked.


that too
Miss Whippy
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2012-03-23 18:16:51 UTC
I can never understand why CCP have wasted so much time on building these forums form scratch and wasting a load of time on them, when they could have picked up something like VBulletin for a about $100 and then intergrated it. Would have been much better in so many ways, would have saved time and money too.

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Tidurious
Blatant Alt Corp
#7 - 2012-03-23 19:00:33 UTC
I think the feature that I miss the most from the recent change is that now, when I use the quick-reply feature, I can't subscribe to the thread at the same time! That little check-box meant so much to me, was several fewer clicks, etc.

Also, since these forums are ALWAYS the slowest page to load no matter what connection or computer I access them from, it was nice to not have to go to an additional page to post a reply that enabled me to also subscribe - it saved a lot of time.
Joe Risalo
State War Academy
Caldari State
#8 - 2012-03-24 16:01:01 UTC
up
Joe Risalo
State War Academy
Caldari State
#9 - 2012-03-29 16:33:18 UTC
bump
Quade Warren
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2012-03-29 16:48:37 UTC
Joe Risalo wrote:
mxzf wrote:
Personally, I still copy-paste my posts. A few months worth of habit doesn't change overnight, lol.

As to the notifications, I have a feeling that it has to do with the way that the notifications system works. Personally, I still want to be able to get to older notifications now and then (for various reasons), I don't want them to delete old ones.


I figured that, which is why I suggested that the "see all notifications" link would have a back log of old notifications that you've already viewed and were deleted off the notifications flag.



I copy/paste as well. I like Google's solution in gmail which has a "Save Now" button. They should integrate something like that, with an additional tab that displays all "drafts" that have not been posted.

I'd like this feature so I could write out an idea, save it as a draft and then come back to it later when I want to flesh it out more before posting.


Quade Warren
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2012-03-29 16:53:55 UTC
Joe Risalo wrote:
Obviously we're all annoyed with the disappearing post. CCP tried to address this with the forums creating drafts of what you're typing. However, the drafts themselves are f'd up and smash your entire post together. So any spaces and numbering schemes you may have used will have to be corrected. So obviously, the disappearing posts issue still needs some work.

However, there are some other issues.

When clicking the flag for your most recent notifications, it doesn't seperate old notifications that you've already viewed.
So if 3 people have posted since I created a thread, I click that notification and view them. However, 3 more people come in and post as well, but it doesn't seperate them, so now it's showing that I have 6 comments on that page.
When you're subscribed to more than one thread this can get very confusing. So there's 5 posts on this thread, 4 on this one, and 9 on this one, but I only have 5 new notifications since the last time I checked. So are all 5 of them on the same thread??

The simple fix for this is, every time I click a notification, whether it be a like or 5 comments, ERASE IT.. COMPLETELY. This way, I will automatically know that I haven't read any of the comments I've received through notifications.
Sure, maybe you can keep a back log in the actual notifications section, so when I click "see all notifications", I'll be able to click the back log and see all the notifications for the past weak or whatever.

I don't know why it insists on posting new notifications with old ones, thus getting it all mixed up, but they should fix it.


To expand on this, my biggest complaint with the notification system is how it takes you to the front page of the original thread and not to the page the comment was posted on.

I totally agree with a page that lists previous notifications, even for the last 3 days. All unchecked notifications should stay indefinitely whereas notifications that have been checked only stay for a short period of time. Maybe an archive feature so you can return to it later? This allows them to expand the view on notifications so I can see what thread it was on, what page on that thread the comment was made, etc.

Anything to increase the ability for players to collaborate ideas effectively would be a boon to the game.
Joe Risalo
State War Academy
Caldari State
#12 - 2012-03-29 17:09:15 UTC
I would also like if the OP could make bookmarks. You click on his thread, and he'll have bookmarked the ideas that best fit and/or fix on what the Op was about, then you could click it and go straight to those posts to read them.

Cause lets face it, if you have an 18 page thread, some good stuff will get missed by new comers. That's how a lot of threads die, because only a certain few are deaply informed on the topic and most new comers don't want to read through all the pages of crap.