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Boards Org changes + new sub-boards live!

RiotA Small Man·10/28/2015, 7:02:44 PM·6 votes·10,682 views

The changes detailed in our last post are now live! The full changelist:

New Sub-Boards

  • Player Behavior & Moderation - A dedicated place for discussing behavior measures (both in-game and on the Boards) as well as more easily getting in-touch with Rioters to have conversations about disciplinary actions.
  • Dev Corner - The Gameplay team is piloting a space in which Rioters can kick off set-piece discussions with players around topics past and present. Thread posting is limited to Rioters, so the place is going to be specifically built around designers proactively reaching out to talk about projects they're taking on, state of the game updates, retrospective dev blogs, or even regular 'office hours' to shoot the shit.

Archived Sub-Boards

  • Tips & Tricks (now part of Gameplay)
  • Maps & Modes (now part of Gameplay)
  • Sound & Music (now part of Story, Art, & Sound)
  • Community Creations (now part of Concepts & Creations)
  • League Videos (split between various sub-boards)
  • Fantasy LCS (removed from sidebar, still active / reachable through Fantasy LCS site)
  • Announcements (simply duplicates news content & comments so cleaning up the redundancy)

Renamed Sub-Boards (for clarity / inclusiveness given removals)

  • Gameplay & Balance > Gameplay
  • Story & Art > Story, Art, & Sound
  • Skins & Champion Concepts > Concepts & Creations

As a note, archived boards have simply been locked to new posting and removed from the sideboard, so they still exist at their previous addresses (for now). Feel free to copy any in-progress conversations located on inactive sub-boards over to new locations where desired.

The sidebar has been updated to reflect these changes and group sub-boards a little more clearly into conversation spaces, 'red-zones,' & utility spaces. Finally, we've posted updated Universal Rules (mostly aimed at greater clarity, no significant rule changes) and moved them to the sidebar to free up some sticky space. If you're not familiar with the Rules, now's a great time to check them out and make sure we're all on the same page.

Several members of the Boards team are around to chat about these updates, so feel free to share any thoughts or questions!

23 Comments

Minarde10/28/2015, 7:10:32 PM4 votes

Reposting my comment from the last post to hopefully get a response.

The boards still don't have a tagging or filtering system yet, right? Then won't merging the smaller sub-boards into larger ones drown out less popular discussions? You acknowledged "needing better discovery options for finding specific content" before combining sub-boards, yet seem to have immediately disregarded that. Combining less-trafficked boards together is certainly understandable, but without filtering tools, it just becomes that much harder to get niche discussions started.

As a specific example, I frequent Maps & Modes because I'm mainly interested in discussions about non-SR maps. The vast majority of the Gameplay sub-board, however, deals with SR gameplay. It doesn't seem feasible to manually comb through a deluge of topics about SR in search of that one discussion about TT/Dom/ARAM. Could you suggest a solution here? As things stand, I feel like the boards are going to be mostly unusable to me for the foreseeable future.

Shíny10/28/2015, 7:31:35 PM1 votes

The formatting for the universal rules listing in the sidebar seems sort of "unpolished " (mainly from all that clarity ) , any plans to change it?

Hellioning10/28/2015, 8:04:26 PM1 votes

Why'd you move redtracker in comparison to everything else?

I'm used to clicking the bottom link. Now that sends me to service status. I am sad.

Alpaca7710/28/2015, 8:38:16 PM1 votes

I'm so confused..

this forum's somewhat confusing to me please move my fan art to the right category because I don't know where it belongs now.. http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/fancreations/2iwcjEFK-nami-fan-art

I couldn't even reply to the comments :(

Hellioning10/28/2015, 9:35:34 PM1 votes

Can you change the PBE boards organizer on the left to be more similar to the current boards? Right now, 'red tracker' is in the middle in this board, but on the bottom on PBE boards. It's disconcerting.

Retillin10/28/2015, 10:04:44 PM1 votes

Any thoughts on adding a "subscription" to the boards? So when I go to Boards Home I can not see some.

Pryotra10/29/2015, 5:48:12 AM1 votes

Is there any plan to change the color scheme for the announcements? It really hurts my eyes to read them in that color scheme, and considering the... treatment... I got from rioters last time I skinned your site, I'd really rather you guys do it.

Until then, I guess i just deserve first degree burns on my retinas... =\

Kholdstare1310/29/2015, 1:46:08 PM1 votes

So first you nuke the old forumss to give yourselves an excuse to delete the Dominion forum, getting us buried inside the new maps & modes. but that wasn't enough for you, was it? Dominion posts kept slipping through. So now you delete maps & modes too? Fuck you all.

CupcakeTrap10/30/2015, 3:36:01 AM1 votes

So does fanfic go under "Concepts & Creations" now?