It's really weird, but in General discussion, I can only view posts chronologically. It's quite confusing - unlike others, I like the discussion view. So why can I not use it in general discussion, place with most posts overall?
Daen1 votesIt's not a bug, it's intended to make the General Discussion board feel more like the old forum from which that community was uprooted. Discussion View is intentionally disabled in GD.
MXXIV2 votesSo why disabled? In all other forums you can chose your layout - why not just make chronological view default on GD so that only those who want can see the discussion order instead.
Daen1 votesNo clue.
Hyrum Graff1 votesIt's a political thing.
When they were migrating from the old forums to these boards, gd was pissed. Really pissed. They were incredibly closed-minded about any change from the old format, even if it was for the better. So, in order to control the shit storm, Riot did the best they could to re-create the old forums exactly as they were.
MXXIV1 votesSo I guess I'll have to hack over it or ignore it. I know the hate that happened. I guess it demoralised the developers which is why the boards suck so hard technically now.
Daen2 votesThey were incredibly closed-minded about any change from the old format, even if it was for the better.
You seem to be forgetting the scenario. Riot split the General Discussion community without changing any of the moderation in the old platform, so both environments got worse. There was very little warning about any of the decisions involving General Discussion, so naturally people felt as though they were being cheated or lied to.
Riot also did very little to help guide these users into the platform, so people's first experiences with the platform were generally hearing people returning to the old General Discussion from the Boards saying it sucked and functioned too much like reddit. Negativity begets negativity, and without intervention from an informed party (Riot, in this case) it just continued to fester.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but the tone of that comment made it seem like you were calling out the GD community when a lot of the problems were actually due to Riot's decision-making. People overreacted, but the dissent was completely warranted.
Hyrum Graff2 votesI'm not saying you're wrong, but the tone of that comment made it seem like you were calling out the GD community when a lot of the problems were actually due to Riot's decision-making. People overreacted, but the dissent was completely warranted.
Intent was to call out the GD community on their closed-minded-ness to change.
However, I feel like I also made implications that they were wrong to be angry, and that Riot wasn't in the wrong, which was NOT my intent. As you pointed out, Riot messed up on a lot of things, too.