[Feedback] Red Tracker

Poro Princess·10/17/2013, 5:10:23 AM·4 votes·1,312 views

This is my second time to the community beta. I was guided here by Iron Stylus through the red tracker on the main site. The majority of my forum browsing on LoL is via the red tracker.

Sometimes there are threads where a Rioter has responded multiple times. I've logged in to see some 20+ read posts in one thread on multiple occasions. When viewing the red tracker, I immediately know to just open that thread and go to the first Riot post and read from there rather than actually reading everything purely through the red tracker. It lets me go in chronological order without reading some random response to another thread by accident.

As I went to the red tracker on this beta however, I was not greeted with a list of titles. Instead I saw the full comment by each Rioter in every thread in reverse chronological order. This is fine if you regularly are viewing the red tracker. However, if I only check once a day I just see a wall of text and honestly cannot quickly gauge how many posts are on each topic.

For example... On the main site I look at the red tracker and see 10 responses to the Xerath update thread. I don't play Xerath, so I don't care. I quickly saw 10 posts I don't need to even glance at without scrolling. On the other hand, I see five posts on the first page with a thread title I find interesting. I just click to open that thread in a new tab to instantly go to the first red response and can read thoroughly. I know instantly which threads interest me without having to read the text. If there's something with only one or two red posts I can open the response within the red tracker and then close it when I'm done.

In summation... Please make the red tracker be a list of topic titles that a Rioter has responded to. Having the full text is not comfortable... It takes away from the ease I've gotten used to having with the red tracker.

6 Comments

RiotIronStylus10/17/2013, 7:15:59 AM3 votes

Thanks for taking a look over here. Red-posting to hopefully gain some visibility on the issue.

ploki12210/17/2013, 1:02:54 PM1 votes

Pretty sure they said that they would be going for an in-between version, where you have like

Title - Title - Title - Title - Title - Title - Title - Title - Title­­­­ (20 posts)
     This is a short preview of the first post
     This is a short preview of the first post
     This is a short preview of the first post

Would have to look back to find the discussion, but one side had roughly your opinion, and the other (devs' initial idea) was to not necessarily have to go through all threads to get info. Basically, they wanted it to fee llike a newspaper where you can know what's happening at a glimpse, but can get more info if needed.

P.S. @Devs, indented Quotes seems to eb broken and there doesn,t seem to be a way to indent either, making quotes like the one I did awkward to do.