Why is Riot making its website hard to navigate?

Illabethe·2/10/2020, 2:48:13 AM·20 votes·2,901 views

Things I can no longer access directly:

-I no longer can look directly at Post replies. -I no longer can directly look at moderation notices. -You have to look for Community in an obscure sub-category. -You have to look for Community before you can access Gameplay. -New flash features are blocked at most workplaces, so you can't even log in to your account. -No longer get notices when someone replies to you.

So...... Why is that?

7 Comments

CaptainAntiHeroz2/10/2020, 11:19:37 AM4 votes

Stupidity

KFCeytron2/10/2020, 11:24:20 AM4 votes

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-I no longer can look directly at Post replies. -No longer get notices when someone replies to you.

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/myupdates https://boards.euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/myupdates https://boards.eune.leagueoflegends.com/en/myupdates https://boards.oce.leagueoflegends.com/en/myupdates

But yes, the button is missing. Riot pushed this new top bar to all their sites without worrying about whether it actually worked properly for all of them, like Boards.

-I no longer can directly look at moderation notices.

Yes, this functionality is actually not accessible at all, as far as anyone knows. If you are aware of any way to view your moderation notices, please share it.

-You have to look for Community in an obscure sub-category. -You have to look for Community before you can access Gameplay.

Yeah. There's been quite a bit of speculation that Riot is planning on shuttering Boards entirely, possibly this year.

-New flash features are blocked at most workplaces, so you can't even log in to your account.

By "flash" do you mean Adobe Flash? Like, that plugin that basically doesn't work anywhere anymore except in a standalone Flash player for those who really want to preserve their legacy Flash animations? AFAIK, the new login thing for all of Riot's sites is not Flash and seems to work like any other login system.

Jesi Oni2/10/2020, 11:04:48 AM3 votes

Yeah... Its terrible. I don't know about standard version but for mobile its barely usable.

CHEWYARMS2/10/2020, 11:55:27 AM3 votes

Yeah it's a joke.

Inorder to find the forums I'm having to Google it. Legit could not find my way here through the homepage.

Nea1042/10/2020, 4:45:36 PM1 votes

You can add that they removed the comments on the Patch notes page. It's of course a pure coincidence that the dissent about how they're doing is huge, and increasing day by day.

Totally not shady as usual.