Hey all!
If you haven't already seen the posts about Champions & Skins and Live Gameplay Balance boards being retired, please check it out here. If you have any feedback on how this was handled, please let us know, but keep in mind that this change was inspired by some of your feedback re: clarity of boards.
Zerglinator6 votesAre the retired boards gonna be boarded up?
Tamat3 votesLawl.
Daen5 votesI approve, that creates much clearer lines.
It would be a bit more clear for it to be "Skins & Champion Concepts", as "Skin & Champion Concepts implies that the board is only for concepts. Unless that's intended, in which case where should topics on current skins go?
We are aware that Community Creations and this new board feel redundant, but this board includes official skins, while Community Creations doesn’t.
This is true, however the champion concept part is 100% redundant. Champion concepts are by definition community creations, so they can equally fit in either the Community Creations board or the new Skins & Champion Concepts board.
When the full community comes to the Boards will it make sense to have a single area that encompasses lore, art, concepts, fanfic, videos, etc.? The Community Creations section already feels a little cluttered with all these different forms of media. I know the goal is to keep the community from becoming too segmented, though realistically speaking I feel that's something that will rapidly become more apparent as more people join the platform.
Sir ArmaMalum3 votesThis was mentioned in one of the two announcement threads but it's very good point so I'll bring it up again. We have a major overlap between Community Creations and Skin & Champion Concepts.
Also, while we're on the topic of boards and the division thereof, what are the thoughts about sub-boards? Hyrum, I and a few others had a decent discussion about the possibility here.
Sir ArmaMalum1 votesWill the posts in said boards be moved at all?
In other words, I have a collection of [Guide] posts, should I be backing these up now in preparation for moving?
Edit: answer via chat via Bear Hat Alice. "The content is not going away, you will still be able to link and people will be able to comment in threads, but discovery from the homepage and sidebar will be missing"
Tamat1 votesContent will not be moved, but will remain up for anyone to check out. If you want to repost content from the retired boards, feel free!
Sir ArmaMalum1 voteswelp if anything it's an excuse to get them grouped together :P
Lady Luck1 votesI'm... not sure where existing skins go. Is it "skins" and "champion concepts"? Because that seems a weird combination. I read it as concepts for both skins and champions.... Which would exclude existing skins.
I came here excited to see what's been said about Arcade MF and then I realize I don't know where I should be looking for this.
Hyrum Graff1 votes"Skins & Champion Concepts" vs "Skin and Champion Concepts"
I think this category should generally be defined as "The place where we suggest things for Riot to add into league."
I'm not great at coming up with good names; Community Suggestions was the best I could do here.
Overlap -snip-
I just went through Community Creations and classified each post on the front page. Basically, I think we can do away with that Board in favor of others.
#Community Suggestions (Currently Skin and Champion Concepts)
#Art and videos (Fan art AND "X effect looks bad" threads)
#Lore and Fan Fiction
#Cosplay and Role Playing
This category could be merged into one or both of the two previous categories.
#Misc or Existing Categories
Daen1 votes#Community Suggestions
The issue with the idea of Community Suggestions as a board is that it has a similar problem to GD, though in a different way.
One of the big reasons GD became so popular is that people realized Rioters preferred to post there. I would assume Riot's being more careful to avoid that problem here, though, and
"The place where we suggest things for Riot to add into league."
Is very, very broad. This can include new champions, improvements to current champions, new lore, improvements to current lore, new art, improvements to current art, new systems, improvements to current systems, new maps, improvements to current maps, new modes, improvements to current modes, etc.
This is obviously significantly more specific than GD, but it's still something with the potential to drown out a lot of other Boards and make the content difficult to follow.
ShadowGlaive2131 votesI'm unable to reply to comments on a thread I made yesterday under "Champions & Skins" I can't up/downvote anything either. I can post and up/downvote on other threads though. Is it something on my end or yours? =[
My thread: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/champions-skins/8AbrKJFK-poll-thoughts-on-sonas-rework
Pryotra1 votesI'm unable to reply to comments on a thread I made yesterday under "Champions & Skins" I can't up/downvote anything either. I can post and up/downvote on other threads though. Is it something on my end or yours? =[
My thread: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/champions-skins/8AbrKJFK-poll-thoughts-on-sonas-rework
I noticed this in my Leona guide as well, when I attempted to make an update post. That thread is ancient, but I was going to fix it up. Guess I have to move it now.
JackYAqua1 votesPlease name Skin & Champion Concepts 'Community Concepts' instead, because I'm told to post item concepts there ... :(
