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The "board" style is horrifying deja vu to me.

fluxanna·10/30/2014, 4:14:37 AM·10 votes·1,896 views

Let me tell you all a little story... | | | I used to be a big Bungie.net poster. That website, back then? Was pristine. Pristine. No, it wasn't "better" at all, no... It was just pristine because it worked so well and made so much sense. You know what else? it was the community too. It didn't matter if the B.net community was on your thread to throw fireballs at you or to answer questions... it was a beautiful, functional community, with its own culture that, we, all used to love.

Personally, I miss the Bungie.net community. I miss my time there---- for instance, once I had a thread up in what was called the "top forum threads section" which was basically a 10-list sidebar that had every forum's significant/longest-lasting threads.       Allow me to elaborate.

Bungie went dark about two years ago, never said a word for about 10 months, ever, and then changed the website layout. (They used to have communal, friendly weekly updates that really interacted with the community well and sort of let us know the things going on, and for example, every year, on Bungie day we'd all go try and get lucky to play against a team of Bungie employees in Halo).

What I'm saying, is that after they changed the site- ---You can go right now, to Bungie.net, and that's what the site still is--- It is now, by all meaningful comparisons, facebook.net. We have everything but something useful now. Hashtags, which are oh-so relevant in forums, and twitter implementations. The forum exploded, partially because it was useless, and also because the vast majority of us hated it. Soon, Bungie singlehandedly destroyed the community. About half the community left. It fell apart after that.

Here in boards.na, I am feeling that same deja vu. The very same changes that destroyed Bungie.net and a whole anniversary of culture there was gone in a month. Some of us had been there for... five years. We earned titles like "Legendary" member. All gone, just in one month. It was all done. One, single, massive update destroyed it.

And allow me to digress for just one more paragaph: Now if they, [Riot, or Bungie] wanted to truly create a "sensible" forum that really was where good ideas and content shone out, do you really [u]fucking[/u] seriously think that turning it into FACEBOOK would do that, or make any sense??? http://p.bfram.es/sense-this-picture-makes-none.jpg No. It doesn't make sense. Unsurprisingly, I hated Bungie.net, and you hate boards.na.

Now. I'm not even a big forum poster here, I've probably made 10 posts in my life on Riot forums. However, seeing these boards recently, the Deja Vu horrifies me.

"Bungie.next", is basically boards.na's predecessor. I have sort of been here before.

I, also see where this is going. In actuality, I'm not even a huge forumgoer here- I'm not even familiar with these forums at all - But. I can tell you that what has happened here has happened before. I have told you what has happened.

As I see it, if you want your old forum back, you're going to have to do better than this. I dearly hope that you, all of you, will be able to put up a better fight than we did against Bungie.

6 Comments

Tenko11/3/2014, 1:04:21 AM3 votes

If you've ever heard of a game called Realm of the Mad God, you would know the same thing happened. Different circumstances, same thing. It's really sad to see old forums go, the veterans of those ones, will probably hang around for a while but will usually dissipear in time. I miss reading the funny, intresting and large discussions on the old forums, they felt like a Giant Community Hall where everyone could hang and talk about league. This just feels like a hospital, clean, precise and to the point. There's a little fun left, but they pretty much took the heart of the forums away, now its just item 3110

DaCush10/30/2014, 5:18:47 AM2 votes

I don't understand what's wrong with the new forums. The only thing that's truly different is that every single post of feedback, trolling, discussion isn't all in one spot (old GD). Some people feel that these forums aren't as active anymore because GD isn't flooding with threads but that's because everything is spread out now and more organized and feedback is sorted in the appropriate sections and GD is actually what it is called now, "General Discussion". All the "this champ is op" threads are in the game balancing boards, the "we need a working search function" threads are in the board feedback boards, the "LMQ doesn't belong in NA" threads are now in the Esports boards (although I feel that those boards should be merged with GD), etc. etc. Of course there are things the boards need improvement on but that's a lot less than the old boards. It was impossible to find your own threads after you left them on the old ones unless you had the add on a loyal member of the forums created called "FEK".

I don't see the issue people have with these boards. People just aren't used to GD not being flooded with threads of every single topic. I can understand why Riot did this, a major reason was to be able to actually get feedback from the community in areas that they wanted our input and for them to show that they are listening.

Just my 2cents.

CHAD WARDEN 201910/31/2014, 8:59:52 PM2 votes

I too frequented the bungie forums in the halo 2/halo 3 days. Good times. It's simplicity worked for me.

fluxanna11/3/2014, 1:36:08 AM1 votes

Sigh... I guess these boards will then be here to stay, I think?