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Why did you first come to the Terraria Community Forums? (example: to report a bug, find other players to play with, figure out why your house isn't valid, etc.) When you were a newcomer, what do you remember was easy to navigate, and what were you confused about? What works well? What functions of the forums do you like, what do you think is fine the way it is, what's your favorite part of the forums? What could be improved upon? What features do you wish were here, what would make things easier, what isn't working as well as it could?
I don't know about you, but I would be annoyed if I've to read from the left side all the way to the right side of the screen all the time if it the text space was on screen-width.Im still flabbergasted that most forums websites are still optimized for a 4:3 monitor XD. If yall can, maybe widen the text area of the screen?
I came first to the TCF to discuss about 1.4.3 and then 1.4.4Give us your thoughts!
- Why did you first come to the Terraria Community Forums? (example: to report a bug, find other players to play with, figure out why your house isn't valid, etc.)
What I found easily is the markdown options, what was hard is to find the correct forum sometimes
- When you were a newcomer, what do you remember was easy to navigate, and what were you confused about?
What works well is fast staff reply time. When I needed help, staff was available always within 24h. At reports they were even faster: when someone spammed ads for illegal services it got taken down within minutes. Also warnings are clearly written so it won't fail at bad English to understand them
- What works well? What functions of the forums do you like, what do you think is fine the way it is, what's your favorite part of the forums?
1. Make search actually search for "common words" but cap the results at max. 10.000 so the search terminates.
- What could be improved upon? What features do you wish were here, what would make things easier, what isn't working as well as it could?
I think raising the profile page character limit has been suggested many timesIf you read an idea from someone else and you like it too, be sure to add on and let it be known that you agree, so that we know which ideas are resonating with the community. Thanks so much Terrarians! We'll be keeping an eye on this thread.
I think these are all pretty valid. Only one I'd probably disagree with is 6 just because it's just a fun little thing to do and I don't think it's that much of an exploit. I've done it plenty of times.1. Make search actually search for "common words" but cap the results at max. 10.000 so the search terminates.
2. Raise the cap of profile messages on the public wall to 1000 or at least only the replies to profile posts (Can I get banned for bypassing the character limit by posting a screenshot of the long text?). Me be like when trying to suggest a thoroughly thought idea on Red's profile post:
3. Unblock the "You were the last person to post on the thread" restriction if there passed 24 hours after your reply and no one else wrote that.
4. Delete the points display on your profile page as trophies give you no points.
5. Allow making new forum games if your account is over a semester old and the proposed game is approved by a mod
6. Fix the exploit of doing this: Harry Potter (pings actually another person, in this example me).
7. Auto-close threads after 6 months of inactivity to block off necropostings
This would help roleplays SO much, I swear. There have been times where I ended up needing to ping multiple people just to keep things going because I couldn't poke the character interactions myself.Unblock the "You were the last person to post on the thread" restriction if there passed 24 hours after your reply and no one else wrote that.
And just noticed this. I don't think that can be removed without messing up the trophy system as a whole.Delete the points display on your profile page as trophies give you no points.
How long is a semester? Like, all I know is it's a thing people use in reference to education system.5. Allow making new forum games if your account is over a semester old and the proposed game is approved by a mod
I think I've seen it mentioned that it's some software limitation with xenforo that prevents this.4. Delete the points display on your profile page as trophies give you no points.
What exactly do you mean by this?3) There are too many subcategories, you enter something and immediately several things appear divided
See above question.2) Have "activate notifications" for when Red announce spoilers and stuff
0.5 years = 6 monthsHow long is a semester
A XenForo-made forum was my very first internet community, and after having spent much of my younger edgelord years traversing the deeper ends of degeneracy on Discord, Reddit, Twitter, etc., I figured I'd settle down in someplace nostalgic, now that I'm an old man & all.Why did you first come to the Terraria Community Forums? (example: to report a bug, find other players to play with, figure out why your house isn't valid, etc.)
I have a good bit of experience with this sort of format, so nothing was all that difficult to figure out for me; but in saying that, I can't really speak for anyone who's fresh & new to this kind of thing.When you were a newcomer, what do you remember was easy to navigate, and what were you confused about?
The part I like most about TCF is that you can properly discuss politics & other sensitive topics without everyone devolving into man-children & igniting a mass flame war/lynch mob; however, with the mass influx of Twitter users, I feel that may not be as much the case anymore...What works well? What functions of the forums do you like, what do you think is fine the way it is, what's your favorite part of the forums?
All told, the only thing I'd really ask for is more reaction variety. As it currently stands, all we have to react to posts with is this small assortment below:What could be improved upon? What features do you wish were here, what would make things easier, what isn't working as well as it could?
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