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For the launch of these new forums, weâve undertaken a complete review of the forums rules and how we utilize and enforce our moderation policy
So with the new simplified rules and enforcement, will the ISDâs and DEVâs still be allowed to be just as buddy-buddy with some of the trolls, to the extent of continuing to protect the troll posts and punish those that report said trolls. As well as apparently being able to post troll posts themselves.
That is the main reason i stopped using the forum much, too much hypocrisy and cronyism from those that are supposed to âmonitorâ the forums. That and apparently not many DEVS used the official forums eitherâŚsince most of the idea generating happened from other sites like Reddit ect.
Itâs like weâre in the future! Iâve run a few of my own Discourse forums and I love the software.
Now if only we had a way to read 'em in game. ;D
Honestly, it is terrible. I feel like I reading a twitter feed because of the design, or an article of a newspaper because of the feeling that it shrink compared to the previous forum, who already suffered from that.
A post now feel like it take less space than the previous forum as the poster information has been nerfed. So few space for the interesting (yeah, I know⌠
) information, too much space for the useless background and this⌠âscrollbarâ at right. Not that it is useless as it permit to know where we are and how much sufferi⌠I mean, posts remaining, but it really take too much space who could be used to a better display of the content of a post. I mean, you know that nearly everyone have monitors with 1980+ pixels of width today ?
It is not efficient.
We are losing immediate interesting informations too, like Corporation/alliance of the poster, this is important in a game where politics matters, so we will have to lose time to check using eve-whoâŚ
And I really hate this tendency to use relative dates instead of absolute dates, because â9hâ donât tell me anything. It will be worse if you use âless than a weekâ or other horrors I saw on IPBoard-like forums⌠It doesnât permit to really evaluate if the discussion is done or still living. 2017-06-20 14:00:00 UTC seems barbaric, but permit to compare with now() in a instant, but I must be an exception on that.
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did my ten thousand spacelikes carry over
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I honestly did not expect to see a third forum iteration since I started playing this game in 2009. You guys are making me feel old.
tell the truth, you sqweed a bit when this went live, didnât you falcon?
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While I prefer light-on-dark themes, I have heard the opposite of what you said so could you provide a source that backs up your claim?
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Youâll note that the issue there is readability, not eye strain. If you drill down deeper into your own sourcing, youâll find the point comes up repeatedly: Dark on light is generally perceived as crisper and easier to read in short sessions, but light on dark causes less fatigue and headache over longer periods.
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Yep, I really like this new forum. Used to only read General Discussion in the old ones and this one has me reading all the subforums seamlessly. Nice job!
I do not like that it takes more effort to find the sub-forums you want compared to the previous forums. Categories are not separated and everything looks cluttered and hard to read; also, threads need a âgo back to topâ button.
Congrats on these new forums. Iâll be reading them daily.
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First problem Iâve noticed is that ânew usersâ canât upload images to complete the little orientation thinger with the bot.
Also, the bot needs its name changed to Aura, for obvious reasons.
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Yeah the New Forum Experience tutorial does get hung up there. To be able to get Basic access, which allows posting bad pics, requires you to spend a few minutes browsing threads. Then all of a sudden you get it. Like EVE, the tutorial doesnât teach you everything and we must rely on the knowledge of the community. lol
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Interesting stuff. After reading every post (55 or so?) I clicked the âsummarize this topicâ button expecting it to ask me to summarize this topic (thought it was trying to crowd source a topic summary for use somewhere!), and ended up getting the top 12 posts.
Not sure what the exact metric is for deciding what posts do or donât make that cut, but very interesting feature. Could be useful for those super long dev blogs where you donât necessarily want to read all 50+ pages, but youâd like to get a good overview (more than reading the first page and last page would provide, say).
Itâs kinda sad that our post histories and like histories are gone, tho. Ah well. Forums always be changinâ. Learned that lesson back in the 90s, so canât say Iâm surprised. ;D
So, in future more announcements will only be posted on the forums? Thatâll make some people on reddit quite salty. 
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Ooooh weird.
Very happy that all offical communication will happen here.
Now, wheres FANDI?..
If I remember correctly Falcon said they will use a bot of some kind who posts the official stuff made here also on reddit.
But the official part of the discussion shall be focused on this forum. Which is good, I think.
Try pressing ? on your keyboard. 
Hey thanks for that. It doesnât help with getting through some of the issues related to the tutorials, but itâs a good bit of knowledge in general. Talk about something that should be in the new user tutorial.
Regards, Dirk
Been using the turorial as a practice area for trying features out. My posts are now considered spam and are hidden.
My dreams of being able to do what all the cool kids do, sharing videos and emojis, crushed!