Organized Board Discussions by Champion

dubwad·8/10/2014, 9:31:23 PM·8 votes·7,856 views

#The Problem: At the moment, the boards feel cluttered to me. There are so many summoners with so many great ideas but I feel like many of these ideas fall through cracks. My solution to this would be to create a subheading or interactive menu underneath the main board title that sorted the posts by champion. I honestly don't frequent all of the boards but I feel like certain boards, Champions & Gameplay and Skin & Champion Concepts (to name a few), would benefit greatly from this move.

#Just a few benefits that this change might bring about:

  1. Players could sort through posts quickly and easily because, lets face it, not everyone's champion interests are the same.
  2. Rioters would be able to systematically and routinely go through each champion's posts, as well as new champion ideas, allowing a closer to fair amount of riot attention for each champion and champion skin ideas and concerns.
  3. Would give a more organized feel and clear up clutter.

I envisioned something along these lines but this is just a picture I threw together. Very rough. http://i.imgur.com/29VPL5D.png A summoner would just be able to click on the champion of interest, and then see the "Hot | Best | Recent" posts for that champion or for new champion ideas. The reddit style would still be there, just under a champion sub-folder, or one could just scroll down past the champion interface and look at all of the posts, sorted by "Hot | Best | Recent", just as they are now.

Let me know what you guys think and whether or not this might be something Riot would consider.

21 Comments

RiotIts Tamat Damat8/12/2014, 2:48:44 AM4 votes

Wanted to weight in here. The concept is great, but it would require a much greater volume of players posting for it to be valuable. If we were to do that right now, there would be 100+ ghost town boards. Yeah the Teemo boards would be the shit, but other then that, content would be sparse. We've had this conversations a number of times internally, and that's sort of remained my stance.

But wait ... a caveat...

There are a couple of things that could make this a possibility:

  1. Copious amounts of players entering the platform. We think 100,000 daily active users (DAU) is a critical milestone, but we'd love to have more than that!

  2. More than 50 daily discussions created (DDC) about a specific Champion. If we start seeing a sustained average of like 50+ daily discussions created about Draven, I'll create that board myself!

  3. You create it. We haven't kept this super secret, but we're planning to let you guys create and govern your own boards with little to no oversight from us down the road. We haven't narrowed down a date yet, but sometime in 2015 is the current aim.

Ultimately, what we really need at this point is a lot of activity in the Boards. So many of the amazing possibilities are going to be unlocked with more traffic. Tell your friends, and trust me when I say that there's some amazing stuff planned. :)

gubigubi8/11/2014, 12:01:53 AM2 votes

Fiora Is grayed out. IDK what this means but I don't like it.

Magnummm8/11/2014, 3:02:40 AM2 votes

I like it!

Linna Excel8/10/2014, 11:23:02 PM2 votes

I don't think it would help or hurt overall. I wouldn't be against it being tried though.

Daen8/11/2014, 3:50:19 PM2 votes

Something kind of pedantic but still important: Your survey is extraordinarily vague and doesn't necessarily relate to the original topic. "Would organizing by Champion make the Boards better?" might be a better question, as I don't think anyone would disagree that more organized boards would make them better.

SilverDrake8/11/2014, 4:53:41 AM1 votes

The problem here is that most of the champion threads would be empty. And currently you can just search for the champion you want any way.

Angry Monster8/11/2014, 1:42:42 AM1 votes

Riot already said they are not going to do this. They do not want to support a board with 120 sub groups.

Willahelm Fulber8/11/2014, 12:49:29 AM1 votes

One thing I thought when looking at this, the greyed out champion icons referred to everything on their topic being read by you already.