Alright, I've made my cup of coffee, let's begin.
[b]What I like:[/b]
- First impression of this site was that it's cleaner, easier to navigate (meh), and better looking.
- I really like the unified forum. The tags are going to take a lot to get used to, along with navigating, but I hardly think that will take long to get down pat.
- The news portion of the site is very well done.
- The navbar on the top with notifications and messages is fantastic.
- The friends list is a very nice touch; it's simple and accessible (in regards to the friend list, are we going to have the ability to 'friend' other users, rather than follow them?)
- I can change my username (seriously, thank you!); however I do have some concerns if people change their identities too much, but I'll assume the Webteam has made something for the moderators.
[b]What I don't like:[/b]
1.) [u]Groups[/u]
- One of the groups that I've founded (that I'm still apart of) has changed hands. I assume the conversion picked the user with the highest, or next authority as its founder.
[quote]Example:
Mythic Members's founder went from Skibur to Halo53
SeptaCrafter's founder went from me (acnboy34) to talon2000.[/quote]
- I cannot ban people for fun whenever I feel like in private groups the way we used to (i.e., from their post - you now have to go to the group settings. Also, what happened to the prior banned list?)
- Where are my pinned topics?
- There are no more user roles; I cannot grant anyone else special privileges. There are only two roles: admin, and default user. I don't want to have to grant people administrative capabilities.
[quote]You can follow as many groups as you like, but you can only join ten of them. As a legacy member, we’ll let you retain membership in all of the groups you currently belong to, until you decide to start joining new ones.[/quote]Seriously - we've gone from being in 25 to 10 (conveniently that was the number of groups I was in prior to this change)? This limit is unnecessary and contradicts the heavy emphasis on community that this website appears to represent.
2.)[b] In General[/b]
- The entirety of the old Bungie.net is available [url=http://halo.bungie.net]here[/url].
- The stats page has felt no love (I'll assume you're working on a new one for Destiny, and then transfer the stats to the new stylesheet.)
- My aliases are displayed. Not that big of a deal, but if I wanted to change my name it would be to leave behind the old one permanently.
- The lack of titles is something that will definitely take some getting used to (i.e., my blue).
- Where are all of my recent posts? Searching for posts by my old and new username doesn't appear to provide results.
- Can we please have an option to set images to 'always view' so I don't have to click to see what they've posted.
- Having to click for nested replies
- WHY CAN'T I REPORT PEOPLE
- If I'm searching for groups by popularity, why do a few groups with only a small handful of members have higher priority to mine?
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[quote]- I can change my username (seriously, thank you!); however I do have some concerns if people change their identities too much, but I'll assume the Webteam has made something for the moderators.[/quote]You can only change your username once a week from what I've heard. [quote]- My aliases are displayed. Not that big of a deal, but if I wanted to change my name it would be to leave behind the old one permanently.[/quote]Many users have changed their username to something completely different from their old one, the aliases told me which users I remember from the old Bungie.net. I completely agree with what you like about the site update, but there's a few things that have been bugging me. -No previewing your post -No incentive to follow the rules. -It's difficult to know if a link is going to bring up a small info box or send you to a new webpage.