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chinashop bull·9/24/2013, 10:26:50 AM·12 votes·1,075 views

Wow, another reddit, but only for league of legends. this is what lol really needed, more reddit redundancy. i mean what if reddit were to go down, we would have only had the official forums to communicate on.

Idk about anyone else but doesn't this come across as one of those ideas some executive comes up with because he read an article on how successful reddit is in the business times or something.

Still only '?' avatars in the forums though, after years and years. :P

anyway i have some more ideas for you:

lolbook, like facebook only for league of legends

lol community tiles: like pintrest only for league of legends, extra good because it has those tiles designers keep misusing for everything.

lolchan, league of legends image board.

lolmail, e-mail but only for league stuff.

lolOS, an operating system which will only run league.

and of course,

lolol, league of league of legends, it's a league of legends based league of legends.

13 Comments

Chancator9/24/2013, 1:26:31 PM5 votes

Who needs a good ole traditional forum when you can have 2 different Reddits on 2 different windows?!?! Amazing! Wow! Awesome! Now I can upvote while I upvote!

Gabe NeweII9/24/2013, 1:33:11 PM5 votes

Technically, our current GD is basically 4chan for LoL. Except without gore.

Also, I can't believe I'm actually posting in this 'Community' bullshit. I'm pretty sure I'm getting cancer.

Ask Starchild9/24/2013, 11:52:41 AM4 votes

Very well thought through, solid ideas, I couldn't fault them if I tried.

I would be absoulutely shocked if Riot didn't implement all these.

ModCaptainMårvelous9/24/2013, 4:27:15 PM3 votes

Well actually they're only using the "reddit" layout as a base and plan on heavily differentiating it from there. Hell, this is more of an alpha than a beta to be completely honest.

But if you wanna talk about redundancy we could talk about using vBulletin and not just scraping the forums entirely.

AnonTwo9/24/2013, 1:39:12 PM2 votes

I get the feeling soon all i'm going to be able to see is the current community "trend"

because both hated and neutral threads are going to get burried without any upvotes.

Seriously, where's the fairness in upvote bumping vs post bumping? Post bumping is actual activity

Legalt9/24/2013, 2:38:01 PM2 votes

Good ideas, but I'd like to point out that you get after them for copying something successful, and your ideas are all...

ploki1229/24/2013, 5:28:09 PM2 votes

Wow, another discussion plateform for League of Legends. This is what LoL needed, more communication capabilities. I mean, what if the old platform didn't allow for some new technologies to be plugged in? We would be stuck with only self bump threads and [?] icons.

Idk about anyone else but doesn't this come across as one of those ideas some executive comes up with because they feel that for a terrifyingly huge amount of time thier company (Riot Games) has had problems with their communication platform being restrictive and/or obsolete.

FTFY

As for the [?] icons, they said time and time again that there were technological limitations on the vBulletin format the prevented them from doing a proper job with icons. Also, they'd lose their "Red post" first look identity if they added in icons. A new platform help solve that.

Anyway, a few things that can/could be done using this platform :

  • Prevent self bumps.
  • Multi-server threads.
  • Personal notifications.
  • Directed replies.
  • Popularity-based suggestions.
  • In-game icon based on forum activity.
  • Personal markup (embedding .rofl files, aka replays/embedding champions stats a la LoLwiki)

So yeah, sometimes you have to dig deeper than your nose can reach to understand why some changes were made...