What do you think about this new forum?

Yes it is, it’s almost like instant messaging, like discord or slack.

Woah that’s a cool feature, so this is like if discord and the old forum had a baby

Hence the name “Discourse”.
Not sure where ProBoards comes in, but eh.

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So this place a has a theme now, looks good.

HERE IS AN IMPORTANT POLL

The poll asks: should we stay or should we go? Please carefully consider the relative merits of this forum and the proposed new community forum. This forum is unwieldy from the admins’ perspective and is filling up with ads and spambots. The new forum is potentially unwieldy from a users’ perspective and won’t carry over any of your user information. Note that the theme of the new forum CAN BE CHANGED and if chosen we’ll try to prettify it a little.

While we may have to overrule the community’s decision if many developers object, this poll should determine which we go for in the near future at least. I’ll leave it open until 2018, by which I mean Monday.

Wow, this forum looks quite nice now.
Love what you’ve done with the place

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Wait till you see my super awesome bigger avatars on posts

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Eh I actually prefer the smaller avatars, this looks a tad clunky. I feel like the older forum’s organization worked because it also said stuff like post count and name and stuff

Even if I could put all kinds of stuff under the avatar, there’s no room for it (see @TheGraveKnight’s post above).

We can change the size to what we want it to be. I personally quite like the enormous avatars but I see where you’re coming from. Here’s an example of 80px avatars (default size is 45px, current size is 120px):

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I can’t really see that much of a difference (though it does look a bit better), but that may be because of the fact that we have different monitors. Maybe you guys could add a couple possible themes with different sizes (I don’t know if you can just copy this theme and only change profile sizes), so we can see the differences

I prefer this one

It looks great, although I will say that having to scroll to find posts is a bit of a pain. Is there no way to have page numbers like before?

Also we should merge fanart and other creativity and give them a few subforums

You can drag the blue post scroll bar to jump to posts directly, if you remember their numbers. And the search function can probably also find things.

Remembering the post number is harder than remembering a page number, but alright I guess I’ll make like a species and adapt.

Did you get a notification about my reaction with :thrive: or is that something that people don’t get notified about?

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Just do Ctrl-F and you can auto-search a thread to find the right post. Also once you’ve visited a thread the next time you enter it you’re sent to the oldest post you haven’t yet read, which in most cases will be the most recent.

Wow, I didn’t know that. That’s very useful. I’d like to see what the proponents of proboards have to say about that.

i think the forum is good

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Sorry my feedback is pretty shallow, I don’t have much experience with forums.

Has the picture of the alien sea creature been edited, or was it always that terrifying and I just never noticed? That’s an observation, not a complaint.
The background seems to be more muted, or the colour theme is clearer, or something like that. Whatever it is, something makes the text a lot more readable, which is really good. That was something I had some trouble with in the other forum.

I like the little thing on the side that has the date that comments were posted on it. Not sure how much of it is aesthetic and how much is functional, but it looks cool.

I really like the forum tutorial thing, which I don’t think you folks have any control over anyway. That being said, I’m typing this out while waiting out a 1min timeout I got because I managed to mess up said tutorial. :flushed:

But yeah, the new forum seems really elegant! The achievement system and tutorial are really cute, and the tutorial makes it feel more welcoming and accessible. The previous forums felt really complex and intimidating to me, so this is a nice change. The text and stuff under the avatars will be missed, but I think it’s a worthy sacrifice.