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Bring back old forum.

Myz··5 votes·513 views

no need to copy reddit, original forum was better & easier to navigate overall. Plus the upvote thing just make for popularity contest.

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BigBlackBook2 votes

Exactly, the downvote system is why reddit is such a trash place to comment. The old boards were easier to read and navigate. However, Riot is filled with incompetents so what do you expect? Their idea of progress is mimicking the worst system in existence.

yellowbricks1 votes

People already downvoted lol. People sure love their watered down reddit clone forever in beta.

Myz1 votes

Don't know why would anyone want a copy of reddit, just go on the official reddit league page ...

Daen2 votes

The reason it's being downvoted is that the OP is not suggesting anything actionable or even remotely feasible. Riot will never move back to vBulletin due to the problems of scale they were dealing with, so suggesting that they should is not accomplishing anything.

If change is desired, propose it in a way that augments the current Boards functionality. There is no use in asking them to revert to the previous platform, because the problems they had to deal with far outweigh any they deal with on the Boards.

yellowbricks2 votes

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The reason it's being downvoted is that the OP is not suggesting anything actionable or even remotely feasible. Riot will never move back to vBulletin due to the problems of scale they were dealing with, so suggesting that they should is not accomplishing anything.

If change is desired, propose it in a way that augments the current Boards functionality. There is no use in asking them to revert to the previous platform, because the problems they had to deal with far outweigh any they deal with on the Boards.

Actionable feedback:

no need to copy reddit, original forum was better & easier to navigate overall.

It doesn't need to be a collegiate dissertation to be actionable, here's the actions: Stop focusing on grafting a bland reddit clone onto a perfectly functional forum system and use your scaleable non vbulletin boards to make a legitimate forum that isn't the worst of both worlds.

He is right that the original forum was easier to navigate, instead of having 2 views that both hide certain information from the user (reddit mode you don't know the order of the posts, normal mode you don't know who's talking to who because no one quotes anyone on these boards, and there's no auto quote feature), it'd be better to focus on the forums aspect since a reddit already exists. These boards try to do two different things at once and falls flat on its face, and I don't see any action at all being taken at all to try and make it better.

BigBlackBook1 votes

Nailed it!

BigBlackBook2 votes

You have no idea why other people are down voting. You do not have the ability to speak for other people or to read minds so stop acting like you do. Are you so incompetent that you couldn't figure out that the suggestion was...wait for it...remove down voting.

Daen1 votes

Are you so incompetent that you couldn't figure out that the suggestion was...wait for it...remove down voting.

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Myz2 votes

{quoted}

The reason it's being downvoted is that the OP is not suggesting anything actionable or even remotely feasible. Riot will never move back to vBulletin due to the problems of scale they were dealing with, so suggesting that they should is not accomplishing anything.

If change is desired, propose it in a way that augments the current Boards functionality. There is no use in asking them to revert to the previous platform, because the problems they had to deal with far outweigh any they deal with on the Boards.

I suggested going back to a classic forum theme, how is that now a suggestion ? If they don,t want to use vBulletin they can use another coding. Heck I'd take valve steam forum over this ...

Daen1 votes

Is there a particular theme you'd like to see? Personally I feel like tagging might be a pretty useful thing to add to the Boards, what do you think?

Myz1 votes

EDIT MOST IMPORTANT THING: Make rank / previous rank displayed in a more evident manner, don't need unranked / bronze / silver plebs thinking they know about the game ...

First, make it so upvote doesn't bump up / downvote bump down. Keeping the voting system is fine, but have post always be ranked by time posted, so first post is first, last post is last regardless of votes on them. Tagging would also be a very good thing, would allow easier comments directed toward someone.

Also remove the ''reddit'' theme and bring it back to a more standard forum theme ( similar to the vBulletin design )

Daen2 votes

EDIT MOST IMPORTANT THING: Make rank / previous rank displayed in a more evident manner, don't need unranked / bronze / silver plebs thinking they know about the game ...

This particular change/functionality is pretty widely regarded as something that might promote elitism and the whole "I'm Platinum you're Silver, so clearly nothing you have to say matters" thing. The way you laid this out makes me feel that's a pretty reasonable thing to consider.

First, make it so upvote doesn't bump up / downvote bump down. Keeping the voting system is fine, but have post always be ranked by time posted, so first post is first, last post is last regardless of votes on them.

Sorting threads by Recent rather than Hot accomplishes this, and it's the method of browsing through threads I and many others use.

Also remove the ''reddit'' theme and bring it back to a more standard forum theme ( similar to the vBulletin design )

Sorting comments by Chronological rather than Discussion accomplishes this, though I do think they need to make quoting more robust before it's something I can really recommend.

Myz1 votes

You didn't listen to a WORD I said.

Main problem: This is a reddit copy.

Don't need 2 reddits. If I wanted to browse some league on reddit I'd go on /r league of legends or a sub-reddit of some sort. Reddit encourage retarded post that cater to upvote, forum encourage intelligent comments & debate ( in general ).

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