That should clear up everyone's questions, right? Good ...
As a development team and as a company, we know that the forums are extremely important to some of you, and we know that some of you have put a lot (!!!!) of effort into building up the community here, especially those who have written the more creative poetic stuff. C'mon, how many of you have > 5,000 posts, raise your hands. That amount of effort is *staggering*. Seriously, I think the highest post count I've seen was ~8400? Over 2.5 years, that'd be like 10 posts EVERY DAY since AG2 launched.
The effort of migrating that much data from AG2 to AG3 is almost as staggering, since the guy who wrote the AG2 forum software didn't make it terribly efficient, and the way we're linking accounts, etc., between the two systems might cause problems. Trying to migrate it to AG3 will be a pretty big job, and it will probably fall in my lap since I'm sorta the database guru around here, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's up to me whether I want to do it or not. If Dan says do it, I do it.
Whether we start over, and wipe everything, and build a new forum engine, or implement someone else's forum software, remains to be discussed internally because it's not a critical feature for us yet. That doesn't mean it's not important to us, it just means we have to get core features working like, y'know, logging in.
Will we migrate old posts into the new forum software? It depends whether we can find an easy way to make the old forum data compatible. Nothing's *impossible* but it's also not practical for us to spend development time (read: dollars) for us to spend a big amount of effort trying to sort stuff out so it's all perfect and pristine.
If we start over with forum posts, will we archive the old forums? Again, nothing's impossible, but I can't answer that right now.
What will happen to your armor points for forum posts? Well, since armor points are also up in the air regarding the same sort of "wipe vs migrate" discussions, I can't answer that question right now either.
Please direct people asking about the future of AG2 forums to this thread if they start asking questions in other forums/threads. I'll post updates to this thread as I have more information.
So, sort of like watching a topic? Some other forums I've visited use that and it works great.
One problem I've had with this feature on other forums is that it automatically marks threads you create as "watched". If AG3 is to give users the ability to "watch" topics, they should not automatically mark certain threads as "watched".
I wouldn't really mind that as I'd probably like to watch all threads I've created, but it would be nice to be able to disable/enable it. Or as you said not automatically mark them.
I have an idea/suggestion. For most active AG users, if you post a question or start a new thread, then you will have to go back through all of the sections to check for a new reply. And since there will not always be a immediate reply, then you would be wasting your time by doing this. So, in AG3, I think there should be something like where you "mark" a forum and every time there's a new reply to it, it will notify you by sending you an email or something like that.
That's a really good idea, but for me personally, I don't really check my emails that often, so would it be possible to have a certain notification that comes up on your profile page?
We should get a edit button if we mispell any thing on our posts we can edit it and not have to double post.
That's a high priority for the forums in AG3. But Cormyn mentioned that it'll only be available for a few minutes, say five, which defeats the purpose of it if you have threads where you'd like to update the opening post, like a contest thread or just to keep track of things so people don't get confused.
But Cormyn mentioned that it'll only be available for a few minutes, say five, which defeats the purpose of it if you have threads where you'd like to update the opening post
The rules should be different for opening posts. The opening poster should be able to edit their own opening post whenever they have to.
I'd prefer if we could edit freely. Yes, there will be those people who will ruin it by changing their posts to inappropriate things then back to normal, but moderators can check that if the administrators put in something where tye can see all previous edits of a post.
I'd prefer if we could edit freely. Yes, there will be those people who will ruin it by changing their posts to inappropriate things then back to normal, but moderators can check that if the administrators put in something where tye can see all previous edits of a post.
But then what about those forum games that require you to use the above user's given information? (e.g. 'Would you rather'
