Feedback: The megathreads posts in Gameplay seem rather pointless

CyberBalt·Jan 28, 2018·2 votes·2,384 views

I've seen a couple of these now, the most recent one being "Swain VGU megathread". These hardly seem to get any views or comments. I think you guys should either increase the visibility of it, or just scrap the idea. It took me until today to even notice it, when it was posted 3 days ago, and I frequent the boards a lot. From what I've seen, a regular user just posts a thread regarding the VGU and all the comments and views funnel into that one -- not the designated megathread.

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Deep Terror NamiJan 28, 20183 votes

Sometimes they do super well, sometimes they super don't. We've had some major success with a Rengar megathread by reaching out to the rengarmains Reddit community (or maybe they reached out to us) to get discussion going, but sometimes people just don't care to engage in a megathread as much as make their own.

I agree that visibility and timeliness are probably the most important factors, and I think we can continue to get some great discussions going in megathreads around new releases/updates so I want to make some better efforts to be consistent and quick with more of them rather than pulling back on them entirely.

I do want to also mention that pinning the thread does give extra visibility, but much more so if it's a global sticky (on the front page instead of on top of its sub-board), but global stickies are prime real estate and stickies also push down everyone else's content a little so we have to be really picky with what goes there.

CyberBaltJan 29, 20182 votes

I'm not sure if this is just me, but ironically I actually notice the stickied threads less than the regular threads because I subconsciously skip over them when skimming through the threads. My guess is I probably do this because I just assume that the pinned threads are the same ones from forever ago. Maybe if there was a visual indicator that there's a new pinned thread, to differentiate it from the other stickies? Even something as simple as text reading 'New'.

Of course those are just my two cents, not speaking for everyone or telling you what to do.

Deep Terror NamiJan 29, 20182 votes

Yep, I agree! This is something I'm well aware of, so I'll utilize images or maybe an exclamation emoji that stands out. One of the proposals I've brought up to Wuks for the boards features updates is some way to mark new pins automatically, such as with the pin icon being red, or it saying [NEW] in front etc. I hope we can get this up and automated so it's a standard!