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Portal-Wide Forum Migration

strumslingerstrumslinger Member, NW_CrypticDev, Cryptic Developer Posts: 1,724 Cryptic Developer
edited May 2015 in News & Announcements

Update: We're going to be delaying the migration until further notice. More information here: http://bit.ly/1HZLoa0

Portal-Wide Forum Migration on May 4th. Please head to the blog post below for more details on the new location of the forums.

http://www.arcgames.com/en/arc-news/detail/9196863-announcement:-game-wide-forum-migration


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  • denvalddenvald Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 702 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Very nice, for a big forum user like me- a very much appreciated update
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  • djarkaandjarkaan Member Posts: 883 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    What about user profiles? Will they be migrated as they are ? with full inboxes, avatars, signatures or will we have to start from scratch?
  • rayrdanrayrdan Member Posts: 5,410 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    No more zero size object?
  • strumslingerstrumslinger Member, NW_CrypticDev, Cryptic Developer Posts: 1,724 Cryptic Developer
    edited April 2015
    Unfortunately, you're going to have to start from scratch with your user profile.


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  • sockmunkeysockmunkey Member Posts: 4,622 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Well, knew this was going to happen. But even with the problems of this forum, its still MUCH better then what you all are planning to move us to. The Arc forums are, put simply, horrible!
  • scathiasscathias Member Posts: 1,174 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I'm looking around on the arc forums now and i really hope there is an option to turn off seeing those gif profiles pics. there is a lot to be said for a clean page
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  • zebularzebular Member, Neverwinter Moderator, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 15,270 Community Moderator
    edited April 2015
    So been looking forward to this! Huzzah!
    rayrdan wrote: »
    No more zero size object?
    This is one of the reasons I am looking forward to the new system, indeed!
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  • katamaster81899katamaster81899 Member Posts: 1,157 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Is there any way we can persuade you to abort this change? The arc forums are very different from the ones we have, and nobody I know seems to be fond of them.

    I'd advise you to check out http://www.mybb.com/ - they have the best forum software around, and it's free.
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  • kieranmtornkieranmtorn Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 382 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    While leaving the zero size object behind would be nice, it doesn't appear that the new forums are very bandwidth or mobile friendly.
  • instynctiveinstynctive Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,885 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    katamaster81899 wrote: »
    Is there any way we can persuade you to abort this change? The arc forums are very different from the ones we have, and nobody I know seems to be fond of them.

    I'd advise you to check out http://www.mybb.com/ - they have the best forum software around, and it's free.

    I also recommend phpBB.
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  • angryspriteangrysprite Member Posts: 4,982 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Profile at the other forums is broke...

    I can't get into anything but my signature (as with the direct link provided in the news post) and I've been a member over there for almost a full year already (I was in Swordsman beta). All forums (except actual Swordsman forum for me) keep asking me to login, and all that does is to reload the HOME portal into an iFrame. :)

    Oh well, patience it is, then.
  • peregr1nusperegr1nus Member Posts: 160 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    No Dev Tracker and No New Posts(Todays Posts) = no interest in reading forums. :(
  • argroschargrosch Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 84 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    zebular wrote: »
    rayrdan wrote: »
    No more zero size object?
    This is one of the reasons I am looking forward to the new system, indeed!
    It´s the only adventage i can see about the new system.
    sockmunkey wrote: »
    Well, knew this was going to happen. But even with the problems of this forum, its still MUCH better then what you all are planning to move us to. The Arc forums are, put simply, horrible!
    peregr1nus wrote: »
    No Dev Tracker and No New Posts(Todays Posts) = no interest in reading forums. :(
    This!

    Its just ugly and in no point user-friendly. I cant even use the recent changes function, whitout getting thousands of threads of games I didn´t even tried...

    I really recommend you to cancel your decission...

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  • silence1xsilence1x Member Posts: 1,503 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Perhaps they will use a new theme once we're all ported over? Who knows. I do know that as a forum admin for other forums, less sites to maintain means less work for me so maybe the change is a good thing :confused:
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  • angryspriteangrysprite Member Posts: 4,982 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    argrosch wrote: »
    Its just ugly and in no point user-friendly. I cant even use the recent changes function, whitout getting thousands of threads of games I didn´t even tried...

    I really recommend you to cancel your decission...

    I'd been saying this for a year (really - go look up my profile over there). Do any of you ever listen? Or believe me? Nooooooooooo. LOL

    It's an okay system, but nowhere near as good as vBulletin or any of the other hosted solutions. I tried and tried and tried really hard to participate in the Swordsman Beta feedback over there and I just couldn't do it. That system has a clunkiness feel to it. There is no DevTracker. And here's the kicker: it does have a "new posts" function, but it's called "Recent Activity" and will show all all unread posts in all forums. AND all those posts remaining "unread" even if they are two weeks old. If you haven't gone in and marked it as read then it's always gonna be "recent activity".

    Things like this were what irked me.

    Zebular said that it's a good system WHEN it is set-up properly and configured right. Problem: the ARC folks haven't done either as of yet. I hate to say it but my lurk-more-post-less feelings of late in these forums may go into overdrive on those forums.
  • katamaster81899katamaster81899 Member Posts: 1,157 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Yeah, I definetly won't be posting much, if at all on these new forums.
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  • sockmunkeysockmunkey Member Posts: 4,622 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    katamaster81899 wrote: »
    Yeah, I definetly won't be posting much, if at all on these new forums.

    Ditto.

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  • jonnybggjonnybgg Member Posts: 51
    edited April 2015
    sockmunkey wrote: »
    Ditto.

    /10 char

    Do you think that they'll be upset by that?
  • sockmunkeysockmunkey Member Posts: 4,622 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    jonnybgg wrote: »
    Do you think that they'll be upset by that?

    No, I don't expect they will give it a second thought. I'm no one special, none of us are. But that does not mean I not allowed to lament the loss of something that has given me entertainment for a very long time.
  • cococyacococya Member Posts: 162 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    From the info we have on the PWI forums from the mods there communicating with Strum, the mods will carry over to the new forums. There are still a lot of questions, though, because we don't know how that will work- will they be global mods or have only privileges on certain game forums only?
    Also, those new forums are a complete mess and easily abusable, people from PWI and STO have made a thread and are appalled about the many ways one can abuse everything (check it out http://perfectworld.vanillaforums.com/discussion/7895/testing/p1 ).
  • valwrynvalwryn Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,620 Arc User
    edited May 2015
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  • naicalusnaicalus Member Posts: 645 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    cococya wrote: »
    From the info we have on the PWI forums from the mods there communicating with Strum, the mods will carry over to the new forums. There are still a lot of questions, though, because we don't know how that will work- will they be global mods or have only privileges on certain game forums only?
    Also, those new forums are a complete mess and easily abusable, people from PWI and STO have made a thread and are appalled about the many ways one can abuse everything (check it out http://perfectworld.vanillaforums.com/discussion/7895/testing/p1 ).

    Haha wow that thread is a mess even on mobile. Good job, PWE.

    So basically we have to redo everything on an ugly, bandwidth-sucking, exploitable forum that's probably not even safe to use? Yikes. :<
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  • strumslingerstrumslinger Member, NW_CrypticDev, Cryptic Developer Posts: 1,724 Cryptic Developer
    edited May 2015
    cococya wrote: »
    From the info we have on the PWI forums from the mods there communicating with Strum, the mods will carry over to the new forums. There are still a lot of questions, though, because we don't know how that will work- will they be global mods or have only privileges on certain game forums only?
    Also, those new forums are a complete mess and easily abusable, people from PWI and STO have made a thread and are appalled about the many ways one can abuse everything (check it out http://perfectworld.vanillaforums.com/discussion/7895/testing/p1 ).

    We're aware of this and are working on it. I gotta admit that some of these things are cool, but...yeah, not gonna happen.


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  • strumslingerstrumslinger Member, NW_CrypticDev, Cryptic Developer Posts: 1,724 Cryptic Developer
    edited May 2015
    Hey everyone, we're going to be delaying the Vanilla forum migration until further notice. More information can be found here: http://bit.ly/1HZLoa0


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  • sentineltitaniasentineltitania Member Posts: 63 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    The new forums looks absolutely horrible...
  • eldartheldarth Member Posts: 4,494 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    That's why there are things like "Stylish" extension for Chrome.
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  • katamaster81899katamaster81899 Member Posts: 1,157 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    Anyways, thanks for delaying it, seriously!

    I beg you to reconsider even making this change. A lot of the community does not like the arc forums.
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