MOD Europe gets a make over

One question, why make a poll and ask for our opinion and then don't listen to it anyway? Anyway, I'm sure we will find the right place

 

But you didn't listen to the poll. The poll was just a perfect waste of time since you was always gonna go with your oppinion of:

(You and your being what ever mod or mods who made this decision)

The forums are perfectly viable if they are allowed to exist, but apparently there is a plan to chase off the users with restrictive decisions.

 

I'm sure old users will find out how to post in their old threads, but I don't think new users will find this new look very friendly. And a note on locked threads due to inactivity, why are they locked in the first place? Why not just leave them open? I'm using a few other message boards, and I find it quite usefull to be able to post in old threads sometimes

 

Obi Anne, please note I did specify, that by "you" and "yours" I was referring the mod or mods who made the decision to change the boards into this. In a conversation with you it would seems strange to use "them" and "theirs" without knowing if you was part of the group to make this change.

In my oppinion this has made the boards more user-hostile than user-friendly.
At present I see only one topic from Finland and for a long time Denmark also only had one active topic. These single topics can easily be overlooked by new users from the respective countrys, who will then not post because they don't see activity from their own country.
In my oppinion the combining of countrys will result in less new users not more.

 

I guess that is just something we have to agree to disagree upon. And then let us hope, that all potential new nordic users share your view of of the changes and not mine.

The forums wouldn't have just one active thread if someone hadn't decided, that all threads must be locked after 6 month. Not all topics are obsolete after 6 month.

And yes, even with tags at the top, it will be different than having a forum of our own, because we will have a history of topics (locked perhaps, but still), that for one reason or another could be interesting to look at again, but now everything is split up in two locations, so if we want to go back and see what we wrote about sequels after the prequels came out or what ever the reason for looking at old topics may be, then we have to look at a different place.

In my oppinion the reason for making this change is vague at best. It seems like the forum now has some new features and then, at any cost these must be pushed upon the users.

 

I must say that I agree with Mundi on this.

We used to have a board, that we could call 'our own', so to speak; a board where all our history was visible for anyone to see when they dropped by. (History being all our old, locked threads).
In my opinion this move of old threads complicates matters, as Mundi says, just because a topic is old doesn't mean we can bring it up again, without having to start a completely new thread. However, I doubt that many new users would want to have to check an old forum and after that request the opening of an old thread.
I believe that it would be easier if the old threads remained where they used to be, along with the active ones, and weren't locked after 6 months - I never got the reasoning behind this.

But then again, I'm not sure that I will be around here much. I don't really like the new look and all the changes and it doesn't have the feel of 'home' that the old board did. I might be sentimental, but that is just the way it is.

/Edit: Also, if one choses to sort by tag and uses it like the old forum, then we could potentially miss a lot of potential threads, I think. We wouldn't see the 'mod' threads and the like.
I'll still check in from time to time, though.

 

It wasn't a case of me having a bunch of topics at hand, that I thought would be interesting.
Like I wrote:

It is simply a matter of us - as things are now - are having all our old topics at a different location than the active topics.
So if for what ever reason, we should like to review what we wrote about something some 2, 5, 10 years ago, then we have to look at different location from our active topics.
So unless you wanna move ALL our old topics to the Nordic Countries Discussion, then this will never be the same as having our own part of the forum.

 

Nice of you to now admit, that this will not be like having a forum of our own despite having tags at the top.

If the aim was to "strengthen the forums, by getting more users, fand having fewer locked topics", then you missed by a mile.
Like I have wrote before, then, in my oppinion, this is more likely to drive new away.
And per Ginas post:

...more likely to drive old users away. And I share her thought, and as such will likely not be here as much as I used to.

It is a weird way of thinking, that it must be easier to interact with other nordic countries, but more difficult to see your own old/locked topics. Coming from our active topics, it now takes 3 clicks just to come to come to our old/locked topics.
Any half witted webdesigner would know, that it is those 3 clicks, that drive users away from the site. I don't know who decided to make this change and convinced you this is heaven, but they should read a book or two about user friendly websites.

 

And it certainly looks like we got a much more active forum after we merged together with the other FFs

Some kind of sarcasm could have beeen used in my post

 

The filtering is unintuitive. There is no information on the page that tells you how to filter. A classic rule of user interface design is: if it isn't visible, then it does not exist. Mousing over the filter tags does not count.

I think also that having old topics expire into a locked state discourages people from posting. On most other forums, if a topic is locked, then it is supposed to remain locked and you are not supposed to create a new thread on the same topic either. If a visitor sees a game thread that is locked, then you are telling that user that game threads are not allowed on the forum. The user will think that the forum is stuck up and boring and go somewhere else.