# What do you think about this new forum?
**URL:** https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20
**Category:** Meta
**Created:** [December 19, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20 "2017-12-19T14:47:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/1 "2017-12-19T14:47:05Z")
This may be the new forums for Thrive fans:
> **[The Emergency FAQ Replacement Thread | Thrive Community Forums](http://thrivegame.freeforums.net/thread/2622/emergency-faq-replacement-thread)**
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> Hi everyone. We've been having a lot of spam attacks from bots on this forum recently, which necessitates a lot of thread purging. Unfortunately it seems somebody accidentally deleted the FAQ thread
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### Author:  [@Aquos](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Aquos)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/2 "2017-12-19T15:30:40Z")
I think it’s kinda confusing, honestly. I prefer the general way Proboards was structured. I’ll probably get used to this, though. /shrug
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### Author:  [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/3 "2017-12-19T15:35:54Z")
Would you prefer this view to be the default: [https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/categories](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/categories) ?
It is more similar to the traditional forum layout based on categories, but hides the few new posts behind more clicks.
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### Author:  [@Aquos](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Aquos)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/4 "2017-12-19T15:39:34Z")
Imo, that’s a lot clearer. Just my opinion, though.
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### Author:  [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/5 "2017-12-19T15:45:17Z")
I’ve set that now as the default view. It does luckily still show a few of the latest updated topics on the right.
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### Author:  [@crodnu](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/crodnu)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/6 "2017-12-19T15:46:48Z")
This one is probably better, since we’re gonna get spammed with forum games otherwise
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### Author:  [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/7 "2017-12-19T15:47:57Z")
But isn’t _some kind_ of activity better than none?
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### Author:  [@crodnu](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/crodnu)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/8 "2017-12-19T16:08:25Z")
i mean, we’re gonna get spammed with forum games regardless, but at least with the category view they don’t get in the way of the other categories
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### Author:  [@TheGraveKnight](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/TheGraveKnight)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/9 "2017-12-19T16:14:35Z")
I’m hoping that the bot spam doesn’t occur here, or at very least not as much.
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### Author:  [@GROMALOCARIS](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/GROMALOCARIS)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/10 "2017-12-19T16:44:12Z")
The damn large minimum character limit of doom and all (I had to type this in this way cause the minimum characters are 20)
Otherwise seems like a good forum
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### Author:  [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/11 "2017-12-19T16:50:17Z")
Someone already tried the search function of this forum
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### Author:  [@Oliveriver](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Oliveriver)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/12 "2017-12-19T17:14:20Z")
> [@GROMALOCARIS](#):
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> The belgium large minimum character limit of doom and all (I had to type this in this way cause the minimum characters are 20)
This can be changed somewhere in the settings.
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### Author:  [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/13 "2017-12-19T17:16:13Z")
I’ve already halved it to 10 (except for first post of each user, they still need to use 20 characters), which is probably good if every reply is a full sentence. The only thing that’s too sort are things like `great`, `thank you` etc. which are replies that are sort of not very good.
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### Author:  [@GROMALOCARIS](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/GROMALOCARIS)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/14 "2017-12-19T17:22:47Z")
Ah, thats good, it would help keep threads from flooding with those replies
(This is my complex way of saying “great”)
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### Author:  [@Biologicah](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Biologicah)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/15 "2017-12-19T18:26:18Z")
I can get used to this.
Its similarity to the dev forum (which I often browse, despite obviously not being a dev) really helps.
Now, the only question is, can bots successfully invade this forum?
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### Author:  [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/16 "2017-12-19T18:39:29Z")
Discourse has a lot of features that should automatically prevent new users from spamming. Also if existing users flag posts of new users they should collapse automatically really quickly.
And hopefully there aren’t as many spambots available for discourse as for other forums.
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### Author:  [@Biologicah](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/Biologicah)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/17 "2017-12-19T18:43:18Z")
Judging by the severe lack of bots on the dev forums, I’d guess the botters haven’t done much for discourse.
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### Author:  [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/18 "2017-12-19T18:44:58Z")
The dev forums are invite only. But there are still quite a low number of discourse forums, and probably no free hosts, so discourse isn’t targeted heavily, yet.
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### Author:  [@LankyGiraffe](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/LankyGiraffe)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/19 "2017-12-19T20:59:41Z")
I liked the old format, while it may have taken more clicks to get to a post it was familiar, not outlandishly bright and had the same format to basically every other forum. I don’t know whether or not this allows themes and stuff like the old one, but I can probably get used to this new layout.
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### Author:  [@hhyyrylainen](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/u/hhyyrylainen)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-new-forum/20/20 "2017-12-19T21:33:17Z")
@Oliveriver posted this link on discord about all the differently themed discourse forums: [https://www.discourse.org/customers](https://www.discourse.org/customers)
Of course we won’t have professional web designers doing our theme, but this forum _could_ look like one of those examples.
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