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Forum and Website Discussions /
« on: December 02, 2005, 09:57:05 pm »
Request to change title of post to more relevant title.
I.E. Forum Suggestions?
I.E. Forum Suggestions?
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Forum and Website Discussions /
« on: December 02, 2005, 08:54:34 pm »Quote
Originally posted by InduaneQuoteI don\'t really mind most of the suggestions, except the BT one DaveG has commented on already, and the \"be prepared to be ignored\". This should not only stay there, but be made an EULA-like thing that people have to agree to. Stay a while and see for yourself how valuable the 100th re-post of the same old, beaten-to-death topic is, simply because yet another person thinks that they were the first to ever think of something ridiculously obvious like having armor show on the char...
OK then why is it called Newbie Help?
The message you are getting at is that if someone else has had the same trouble before, a new person should either wait to post a question till he/she has been around long enough to figure out how the forum works, or figure it out yourself. If a person stays around and figures out the forums he/she is no longer a newbie. What about the just regular people? I understand that it would take a patient person to moderate those forums, someone who doesnt mind answering the same question several times, but that is no reason to deny help to someone just because 30 other people have already had the same trouble.
In short don\'t call something newbie help unless the moderators of the forum are prepared to deal with newbies.
Agreed.....
Maybe a forum overhaul is in order? Moderators need to be a little bit more progessive when it comes to forum changes and evolution. There are irrelavent sticky posts, that clog up the top of some of the forums. I have already reported one to the moderators, even though \"reporting\" is stated for spam and other stuff....
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Forum and Website Discussions /
« on: December 02, 2005, 08:11:02 pm »Quote
Originally posted by Seytra
I don\'t really mind most of the suggestions, except the BT one DaveG has commented on already, and the \"be prepared to be ignored\". This should not only stay there, but be made an EULA-like thing that people have to agree to. Stay a while and see for yourself how valuable the 100th re-post of the same old, beaten-to-death topic is, simply because yet another person thinks that they were the first to ever think of something ridiculously obvious like having armor show on the char...
That is what moderators are for. It still doesn\'t justify loosing the proffesionalism of the forum. Moderators are supposed to be actively informing a person. You say that you have 100 posts of the same stuff...Why not merge them all together. Another simple tool is just be helpful. There are going to be dumb people on the forum, that simlpy would like help.
Here\'s example
-How do you kill monster in this game?
The Response should either be a link to another intelligent post, or to a SECTION in the users manual to where it states information. The worst thing you can do is yell at the guy about not searching the forum. Searching the forum is sometimes hard, depending on your search methods.
If your going to have a forum, your going to have the same problems as all the other forums.
Take for example. forums.gentoo.org.
They have millions of posts, and tens of thousands of people on it, and it still manages to be one of the best linux support forums around.
Forums can get messy, but thats why moderators organize things.
I count 8 \"Importants\" in each support forum. I understand the need for \"sticky\" posts but 8 is a tremendous amount.
Oh a solution to your \"have them search first problem\". Put a search bar on every single screen. Even a simple \"Search First:\" will remind users to search. Leaving a little button for searching, makes it a option..you want it to be so avaliable that people will use it alot.
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Forum and Website Discussions / Icons Nessecary?
« on: December 02, 2005, 09:37:58 am »
My Suggestion, take it as a suggestion:
Get rid of the Subject Icons. Honestly no one looks at them, and it just adds more clutter to the forum listings. One is good, to provide status of the post, but a little subject icon is not nessecary.
Suggestion: Remove small subject icon, and have status icon twice as large, and fill up the space.
Servers Up/Downtime
Servers or mirrors availability announcements
That doesn\'t seem like a very good title for a forum.
How about
Server Support?
The forum doesn\'t seem like it is just a simple place where users can see the CURRENT server up/downtimes. If your going to make it a server announcement, then it should just be a forum for only moderators to post the server status at the time. This would make it very easy to see the server status. The top post would just be the newest status.Good place to post maintiance schedules and avalibility.
What else...
There should be a space between Mac OSX. It\'s not one word.
I think you can remove the \"EXPERIMENTAL\" from the off-topic forum, seeing how it has about 1000 posts.
Comments like these \" If you ask a question that has already been answered 100 times, be prepared to be ignored.\" in the description are not helpful, and don\'t give the forum a professional look.
Please report bugs to http://planeshift3d.com/bugtracker/
This should be an annoucement in the forum. I had to really look to find this. It should be an annoucement at the top so that people can easily find it. You\'d be surprised how many people don\'t read the description on forums.
There is no need to have UPDATER capitalized in the first Tech forum description.
I think that\'s enough commenting. I really don\'t mean to sound like a bitch about the nit picky stuff, but this can make the difference whether your program gets a second look. Most people will check out the website first to see how maintained it is, is it worth my time, and is the program still alive. These few suggestions might help the community display a more professional attitude.
Get rid of the Subject Icons. Honestly no one looks at them, and it just adds more clutter to the forum listings. One is good, to provide status of the post, but a little subject icon is not nessecary.
Suggestion: Remove small subject icon, and have status icon twice as large, and fill up the space.
Servers Up/Downtime
Servers or mirrors availability announcements
That doesn\'t seem like a very good title for a forum.
How about
Server Support?
The forum doesn\'t seem like it is just a simple place where users can see the CURRENT server up/downtimes. If your going to make it a server announcement, then it should just be a forum for only moderators to post the server status at the time. This would make it very easy to see the server status. The top post would just be the newest status.Good place to post maintiance schedules and avalibility.
What else...
There should be a space between Mac OSX. It\'s not one word.
I think you can remove the \"EXPERIMENTAL\" from the off-topic forum, seeing how it has about 1000 posts.
Comments like these \" If you ask a question that has already been answered 100 times, be prepared to be ignored.\" in the description are not helpful, and don\'t give the forum a professional look.
Please report bugs to http://planeshift3d.com/bugtracker/
This should be an annoucement in the forum. I had to really look to find this. It should be an annoucement at the top so that people can easily find it. You\'d be surprised how many people don\'t read the description on forums.
There is no need to have UPDATER capitalized in the first Tech forum description.
I think that\'s enough commenting. I really don\'t mean to sound like a bitch about the nit picky stuff, but this can make the difference whether your program gets a second look. Most people will check out the website first to see how maintained it is, is it worth my time, and is the program still alive. These few suggestions might help the community display a more professional attitude.
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General Discussion /
« on: December 02, 2005, 09:17:31 am »
Well, I\'m glad I didn\'t get chewed out..But, about the fact there are two differents site, although odd.There needs to be an offical one...There is no way to merge the two? And yes it would be great to have a forum link on the main page, rather than hidden in \"community\".
About bookmarks. I do use bookmarks for forums...but if you just browsing in the library or such, it\'s nice to have a URL thats simple.
You have a great URL planeshift3d.com, that is simply a redirect. It seems almost wasteful to have such a top domain, used as a redirect. Why not have planeshift.it be the main site, and simply have planeshift3d.com be forums or the \"community\" site.
The community site that navigates registering, forums, fan art....
Planeshift.it could be releases, planeshift news.
If you want planeshift to remain and expand professionally it might take some reorganization.
Another comment on the forum....
I do infact prefer the color scheme in the Linux forum. It has a more fantasy feel, and it fits along with the planeshift.it site, but it\'s very weird and unprofesional to have two different color schemes in a forum.
Is there any reason why registration website is:
http://laanx.fragnetics.com/register/
Now we have three websites that are based on one game.
About bookmarks. I do use bookmarks for forums...but if you just browsing in the library or such, it\'s nice to have a URL thats simple.
You have a great URL planeshift3d.com, that is simply a redirect. It seems almost wasteful to have such a top domain, used as a redirect. Why not have planeshift.it be the main site, and simply have planeshift3d.com be forums or the \"community\" site.
The community site that navigates registering, forums, fan art....
Planeshift.it could be releases, planeshift news.
If you want planeshift to remain and expand professionally it might take some reorganization.
Another comment on the forum....
I do infact prefer the color scheme in the Linux forum. It has a more fantasy feel, and it fits along with the planeshift.it site, but it\'s very weird and unprofesional to have two different color schemes in a forum.
Is there any reason why registration website is:
http://laanx.fragnetics.com/register/
Now we have three websites that are based on one game.
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General Discussion / Website Navigation
« on: December 01, 2005, 01:58:21 am »
I am quite new to PS, and my first problem I found was the difficulty it is to find certain things. ie. this forum
www.planeshift3d.com redirects to www.planeshift.it.
And then that really nice, but very annoying introduction. It\'s not very smart to have a flash introduction to a website. It would be smarter to integrate the intro into the actual homepage.
It would be good to stick to a common URL for the planeshift homepage. Everything is so spread out it\'s hard to find things, and navigate.
Another thing that I found difficult was the avaliabilty of the forums. It\'s not really the navigation from the homepage, but rather the actual forum URL. It would seem more convienent to make it a subdomain.
www.planeshift3d.com redirects to www.planeshift.it.
And then that really nice, but very annoying introduction. It\'s not very smart to have a flash introduction to a website. It would be smarter to integrate the intro into the actual homepage.
It would be good to stick to a common URL for the planeshift homepage. Everything is so spread out it\'s hard to find things, and navigate.
Another thing that I found difficult was the avaliabilty of the forums. It\'s not really the navigation from the homepage, but rather the actual forum URL. It would seem more convienent to make it a subdomain.
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Newbie Help (Start Here) / Nothing on Server
« on: November 18, 2005, 07:26:15 am »
So I just logged in, and yes I understand the game is in its infancy, but what is there to do? It would nice to have a stick and a shield or something to wack critters with to somehow make money and progress in the game....
Or am I way off?
Or am I way off?
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