Reply To: Now that you're all here reading the forums again…..

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@oriskany I think one of the main problems with these forums here on OTT is: they are not “real” forums. It’s a forum’ish comment section.

What do I mean by that? Now, proper forums running things like phpBB or Simple Machines Forum have a very top heavy structure which makes it easy to navigate. And simple features like “show me all unread topics” or “mark all forum read” simplify navigation so much. Also finding topics with low interaction rates is much easier. If I knew it would do anything I’d vote for a proper forum under https://forum.ontabletop.com (@warzan @lloyd maybe give this a thought or two?)

Additionally what I have seen the last days is the simple fact that front end depiction does not match with the actual content in the forum. Example (not Saga, sorry): I get an email “new reply to thread”. If I, at the very moment, refresh https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums it will not show the latest reply. There is a very noticeable delay which makes navigating the forums even worse.

I hate to say it but I get why Jim says goodbye to the forums. WordPress does many nice things. Being a forum is not one of them :S