Index could use some clarity

Ice Weasel X·9/15/2019, 10:00:20 AM·6 votes·6,741 views

Since TFT has its own subforums, you'd think that would keep discussions segregated to the relevant sections. Unfortunately, the current index layout makes it easy for people to miss that there are two separate "Report a Bug" boards.

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The Game used to be just for League of Legends, but several of its sections are generally applicable to the entire franchise now that there is more than one distinct game. RANT; Player Behavior; Story, Art, & Sound; and Recruitment are all also relevant to Teamfight Tactics. Gameplay and Clash are still only for LoL.

Teamfight Tactics is specifically for TFT. As the newest section, its subforums are succinct.

Creative Corner is for all creations related to the franchise.

Community is very general and applies to everything and nothing (General Discussion/Memes & Games) at once.

Support falls into the same clutter as The Game. It's either for LoL or for everything.

Since LoL's Report A Bug board is so far from the primary LoL-specific boards, TFT's Report a Bug link is more likely to catch readers' eyes. Because of that, players keep posting LoL bug reports on the TFT Report a Bug board.

Catch-all/franchise-wide subforums should probably be grouped separately from game-specific ones. At the very least, some consistency with the bug report links would help keep submissions about the different games separate. For instance, there are currently multiple bug reports by different players about Teemo in the TFT section, and he doesn't exist in that game.

(Apologies for the painfully high contrast color choices in the screenshot, I wanted to make sure the differences were immediately visible to colorblind people and was too lazy to soften them)

2 Comments

ModAttysu The Poro9/20/2019, 5:07:12 PM1 votes

While the report-a-bug section is for in-game, I would also think it's support because it's reporting bugs/issues with the games to Riot just like you'd ticket riot for a lot of other stuff. Other than that, I can see the issue, but it's rather difficult to find a concise way to organize the sidebar without some kind of flaw or making it too large, cause we have so many subboards.

ModWuks11/16/2019, 12:05:31 AM1 votes

If I'm not mistaken, are you suggesting "The Game" be renamed to "League of Legends", and "Report a Bug" to be put underneath that section?