Posted - 2011.04.07 14:25:00 - [1]

 

Edited by: Akita T on 10/04/2011 01:05:57

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As some of you probably noticed, the new forums are online... and these forums here will be closed (made read-only) very soon.

I have only two minor regrets... one, that I will be forever in second place after Dark Shikari (unless Chribba somehow managed to merge posts from both forums in a single statistic) and two, that the new forum format is still the ridiculous "fixed max width" one that several people complained about.

So...

Goodbye, old forums... long live the new forums !

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EDIT : YES ! VICTORY !
Even if just briefly, the old forums are back, while the new ones... well... you probably know that story.


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EDIT 2:

Now, to be honest, this move is actually quite nice.
Given how things were moving these past few days, I almost fully expected CCP to keep clamoring over the new forums and keep getting them broken and emergency-patched and so on and so forth.

However, it seems they finally saw reason and did the right thing.
It probably took quite a bit of ego restraining to make this move back, but it was the right thing to do.
So, in a way, some kudos are in order.
It could have been much worse.


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EDIT 3: from the new sticky about the forums...

Originally by: CCP Wrangler

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Originally by: Calathea Sata

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Originally by: CCP Wrangler

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It has been an interesting weekend so far. Our shiny new forums haven’t worked quite as expected and they have been going up and down a few times. We have opened up our trusted old forums for your posting pleasure and we will be keeping the new forums down until they can be sorted out. There will be more information on this on Monday. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you and we thank you for your patience and understanding.

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CCP needs to apologize for throwing out untested unfinished unpolished rubbish at customers as well, to a community that is so dedicated to your company's product and expecting nothing but excellence and deliverance, this is an insult.

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You have my sincere and personal apology and I also apologize on behalf of CCP.

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Security holes aside, how about an assurance that user feedback will be actually USED next time you ask us to test the forums ?
Or what about making the new forums not just barely functional and somewhat secure, but actually a clear improvement over the current ones in every single way ?

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EDIT 4 :


Can anybody think of something good to say about the (temp suspended) new forums ?
OTHER THAN an actually functional search function ?
I mean, a feature which actually WAS a noteworthy improvement over these forums right here ?
One that really worked as it should, not buggy as hell.
And it would have to be an OBJECTIVE improvement, not just a stylistic personal taste choice.

I can honestly think of none other than the search that was useful to me personally.
And even that wasn't such a big deal considering eve-search is around, and google works reasonably well too.