Instead of Reddit style why not just improve the current forums

Shouxiao·Sep 18, 2013·11 votes·689 views

Instead of making things reddit style just improve the current forums. There are plenty of things that can be done to improve the current forums/community/etc. The upgrade to the website was a great start with things like champion lore and information. It is not that reddit is bad or anything but forums are simply better when it comes to the official websites.

The ways things are makes it harder to look through threads. The way you can search through post that you made is an improvement though.

Why not just do this for the forums we already have. Make it so that users can have Avatars of champions/icons in game. Make it so that users can search through what ever threads they make and what threads they post on. If those things were done the current forums would be perfect.

6 Comments

FlySkyHigh777Sep 19, 20135 votes

I'm with this guy. Reddit is OK enough if I just want to hop online and check out the latest scoop, but the issue with it is that we'll lose a lot of things like the Skin Ideas like Pool Party Ziggs and Astronautlius, because eventually the decay of "support" that the thread will get on this reddit-style board will make sure that they fall off, and are never seen again.

PryotraSep 19, 20134 votes

This is a question that they haven't clearly answered. I'm pretty sure vbulltin allows for different forms of sorting, but honestly it is best suited to the chronological order. I still don't see why we NEED to challenge that, as alot of us actually prefer it and these forums don't really do chronological in a logical fashion.

SlumlordThanatosSep 19, 20132 votes

The only answer I've gotten is that it's apparently less work to create all-new forums than it is to fix the ones we have.

If that's the case, then why are they forcing a format on us that we have already stated that we don't want?

Young Luv MurderSep 20, 20131 votes

And that's the biggest issue. As far as I can tell they've never actually acknowledged that MANY of us don't want this style. They just shrug it off with some half-ass answer then move on.

Are they even listening? I can't tell. They post, but do they actually take into account what is being said? ...

Just MidSep 20, 20131 votes

I believe they somewhat answered that question. It's a lot of work because it's based on some foundation that doesn't allow for many adjustments without having to rewrite everything. They would just have to create everything from scratch anyways. So they thought, "Why not just make a new and better forum?"

I, however, wish that they just worked on the original forums.

ShouxiaoOct 27, 20131 votes

bump i guess