Why do the boards force me to NA all the time?

Zanryu·Aug 6, 2014·1 votes·853 views

Hio guys,

before the boards arrived I created an NA account to post in the forums since EUW is dead in terms of active community, red posts, and especially the designers. When the boards then finally arrived we could use the EUW accounts to post in there. Thus I didn't needed my NA acoount anymore and I no longer use it to post something. However for some reason every few refreshes the boards force me from my EUW account to NA and ask me to log in.

Zanryu

18 Comments

Hoi Im TemmoAug 6, 20141 votes

Riot is sending you a message.

ZanryuAug 6, 20141 votes

Would be too nice if that would be true.

Hoi Im TemmoAug 6, 20141 votes

More seriously, I actually have a similar problem - I keep getting bumped from NA to EU Nordic and East - and get really annoyed when I try to log in like 12 times before realizing why I can't.

ploki122Aug 7, 20141 votes

funnily enough it happened to me once or twice for NA->EUW...

Angry MonsterAug 6, 20141 votes

The new boards are hosted on the NA system. I am sure that their is a bug causing this movement.

Hyrum GraffAug 7, 20141 votes

Are you browsing GD in another tab/window? I know this can happen (it happens to me in reverse for EUW/NA, but I've written it from your perspective):

I'm browsing Boards on EUW.
I go to NA GD.
Boards changes to NA.
- Boards asks me to log in with NA.

This just has to do with the way their site as a whole (not just boards) is coded. It's not exactly a bug, it's just not something that ever mattered because they didn't have forums open to multiple regions before.

ZanryuAug 7, 20141 votes

Nope, I'm not using my NA account for the boards anymore.

Hyrum GraffAug 7, 20141 votes

Not for the boards. For GD.

You don't actually need to be logged into GD, either. Click on this link to GD, and it'll change your region on Boards to NA.

ZanryuAug 7, 20141 votes

Hm, indeed.

Hyrum GraffAug 7, 20141 votes

If you think about it from the perspective of the old forums, it totally makes sense: if you go to an EUW forum, it'll automatically change to your EUW account. If you go to the NA forums, it'll change to your NA account. When they built the system, they weren't considering that one day, they might have a platform that's accessible from both regions.

ZanryuAug 7, 20141 votes

Yes, and that is why we needed a new, global platform, accessible for all regions.

DaenAug 7, 20141 votes

That's...what the intent for this platform is down the line, yes.

Hyrum GraffAug 7, 20141 votes

Perhaps OP meant across all of leagueoflegends.com, not just here.

ZanryuAug 7, 20141 votes

Nope, just in the boards. I worked earlier with both forums, NA and EUW without ever having any problems.

Only boards switch me around.

Hyrum GraffAug 7, 20141 votes

Actually, Boards is the only place that doesn't switch you around, it just reflects what happened when the rest of the site did switch you around. You don't have the problem on NA and EUW on the forums because, when you go to NA, it swaps you to NA, so you never end up on NA while logged into your EUW account (and vice versa).

ZanryuAug 7, 20141 votes

I'm confused. The old forums are called "forums" in my book. They were divided by the regions and we couldn't write in NA forum using the EUW accounts. The new thingys are called "boards" in my book. Only one of them exists since they're global.

What do you mean by "other boards"?

Hyrum GraffAug 7, 20141 votes

I meant the old forums, my bad. Updated my comment to reflect that.