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Edited by AAAAAA:
1/10/2013 7:15:31 PM
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This site looks bloody marvelous, but the lack of proper forums will harm the BNet community.
The array of forums, subforums & groups we had before; all lined up in an easy to use, clear, coherent fashion were wonderful. It was easy to simply click on Community, The Flood, Halo 1 PC etc & it would all be there, in a standardized forum way. For me, at least, the way that the forums worked (i.e. as a catagorised thing, not like this tumblr/twitter thing we have now) was one of the key reasons that I kept flocking back to use BNet.
As I say, it looks great, it looks futuristic & it looks clean. However, it doesn't feel anywhere near as usable as BNet previously was. Perhaps I'm just reluctant to change.
I do love the tagging though, that aspect of this definitely works well.
Anybody agree? If so, what's your major gripes & likes?
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The old system was easy to use, but was limited, didn't scale well, and required additional navigation to get from one forum section to the other. The beauty of the tag system ( IMO ) is that it serves the exact same logical purpose forum sections served, but without the rigid boundaries that required users to switch from one section to another to follow multiple threads. In terms of scale, it's also a lot easier now to support new categories of threads; no more needing dedicated forum sections means less site maintenance as the community grows or wants to discuss different kinds of topics.
