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riccardo171riccardo171 Member Posts: 1,802 Arc User
Congratulations on building a forum that's so heavy to run that likes to crash Safari Mobile and Chrome on iOS 8. Heavy enough to make the background music playback halt while writing a few words, resulting in overall loss of performance for the device.

Add on top of that how hard it is to even log in the forums. It's guaranteed redirect on Arc frontpage and, if you're lucky, you may even be still logged in. On mobile it's even worse, not only you have to endless scroll to get to log in (surprise, menu bar doesn't do the trick!), reply to someone, write a new thread. And the "Post Comment" button doesn't work as well on Safari Mobile.
Navigation through the forum is nearly impossible there as well, as there is no such thing as a button to go up to parent's subforum.
As icing on the cake, the page navigation at the bottom for threads is unreadable with an horrific and unreadable white-on-white text.

As far as it goes for desktop, login issue is still there: I have friends who are still locked out from the new forums. The page navigation is at the top of the thread only, and means that I have to scroll up again to get to it. Huge signature pictures are eye disturbing, like taking a whole third of the screen that overall makes the forum even HEAVIER. What if I was to upload a 5K high resolution image as my signature? Would anyone like it? Surely not your Internet.
Plus the UI is way too large and inefficient, takes up space that it didn't need, while profile "thumbnails" are small enough to make them pointless (but huge signature pics are allowed...).

Enough to say that these forums are bad, heavy, performance crippling, bugged and unusable on a smartphone. The game is already unplayable enough for me to have it airlocked; you perfectly managed to do even worse with Vanilla.

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  • deaftravis05deaftravis05 Member Posts: 4,885 Arc User
    *omg! my smartphone don't like this, y'all better fix it or else!"

    Seriously who does forum stuff on their phones? the bloody screen is too small for this TRIBBLE.

    Computer is the way to go dude...
  • jam3s1701jam3s1701 Member Posts: 1,825 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    Congratulations on building a forum that's so heavy to run that likes to crash Safari Mobile and Chrome on iOS 8. Heavy enough to make the background music playback halt while writing a few words, resulting in overall loss of performance for the device.

    Add on top of that how hard it is to even log in the forums. It's guaranteed redirect on Arc frontpage and, if you're lucky, you may even be still logged in. On mobile it's even worse, not only you have to endless scroll to get to log in (surprise, menu bar doesn't do the trick!), reply to someone, write a new thread. And the "Post Comment" button doesn't work as well on Safari Mobile.
    Navigation through the forum is nearly impossible there as well, as there is no such thing as a button to go up to parent's subforum.
    As icing on the cake, the page navigation at the bottom for threads is unreadable with an horrific and unreadable white-on-white text.

    As far as it goes for desktop, login issue is still there: I have friends who are still locked out from the new forums. The page navigation is at the top of the thread only, and means that I have to scroll up again to get to it. Huge signature pictures are eye disturbing, like taking a whole third of the screen that overall makes the forum even HEAVIER. What if I was to upload a 5K high resolution image as my signature? Would anyone like it? Surely not your Internet.
    Plus the UI is way too large and inefficient, takes up space that it didn't need, while profile "thumbnails" are small enough to make them pointless (but huge signature pics are allowed...).

    Enough to say that these forums are bad, heavy, performance crippling, bugged and unusable on a smartphone. The game is already unplayable enough for me to have it airlocked; you perfectly managed to do even worse with Vanilla.

    The new forums are/were not the idea of the STO/Cryptic team or Trendy.

    They are adaptable thus meaning easy to use and can be modified by players ( there is already some nice mods going around I suggest you look for them here on the forums )

    Link HERE!
    perfectworld.vanillaforums.com/discussion/comment/12583214#Comment_12583214

    Yes they are some what clumsy however Trendy Has already said she is in talks to see what can be sorted to bring back things like the dev tracker etc so just bide your time until things move forward.

    I honestly do not know why your having issues with them on your computer or smartphone ( I'm posting from my smartphone as I type ) maybe you could ask for some advice or add more information as to what your problem is rather than just stating what other threads have done and bashing what's new and in its infancy.

    and lastly I'm not flaming I'm just stating out very directly that coming across angry etc does not do you any favors with trying to put across your own issues.

    Fyi, Edited on Windows 8.1 using chrome :smirk: (( again no idea what issue you are having due to no info on your part apart from they suck ))




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  • peterconnorfirstpeterconnorfirst Member Posts: 6,225 Arc User
    Just dropping by to fully agree with this threads title.
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  • cidjackcidjack Member Posts: 2,017 Arc User
    I can load the forums perfectly fine on both my windows phone and my Samsung pads.
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  • riccardo171riccardo171 Member Posts: 1,802 Arc User
    *omg! my smartphone don't like this, y'all better fix it or else!"

    Seriously who does forum stuff on their phones? the bloody screen is too small for this TRIBBLE.

    Computer is the way to go dude...

    I do use my computer rather than my smartphone. However, even if I wanted to check the forum out I wouldn't be able to. The forum is simply unbearable; plus Safari Mobile is like the most popular mobile browser out there. Even an iPad can get to have some troubles as I experienced.

    I still stand by my initial idea: these forums are bad in every aspect.
  • battykoda0battykoda0 Member Posts: 959 Arc User
    Right, mods for forums but no addons for games. LOL

    Welcome to 1992, Ladies and Gentlemen, where forums were dialup BBS. This looks a lot like those did only the ansi graphics don't line up because the font isn't fixedsys.
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  • walligigwalligig Member Posts: 308 Arc User
    Strangely enough, these forums work better on my phone then my computer.
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