- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: snowmanaxt
Posted by: egor
Now, the problem with such a move would mean that maybe your gamertags/bungie.net login wouldn't be linked to your forum wotsit. And also current posts may be lost, they may not, I don't know because I know nothing about the current boards.
If you dont know anything about the current Forums how can you say any kind of argument against them. tru7h is, this topic has been brought up so many times it makes me want to slap every new person who asks it. These Forums were not just thrown in uyou know. Bungie took into consideration the ammount of infomation that would be going through these forums and picked the best set up they could. Achronos has already commented on this more than once and made the kid who thought he knew what he was talking about look straight stupid, so I'm just gonna leave the technicl stuff to him. I dont know as much about it has he does, and IM certainly not going to come to a Bungie website, controled by MICROSOFT, and think I know how to better run their forums. they have professionals who know more about this than you can even imagine. So next time you want to comment on the way things are run here, just think about that.
Um, it was an open post inviting people to talk about the pros and cons, I'm not sure if you've noticed, but I haven't actually said they should do anything either way, this is a "what is your opinion" thread, not a "this is my opinion, lets argue it out". I'm intrigued by the negatives of moving and the positives of the current forum. If there is a next time, please read what the thread is about and then act accordingly instead of going gung-ho and all "oh know, not this question again!" and being rather presumptious.
Back on topic. I do agree that some problems can't be coded around. I wouldn't go as far to say its the number of people though, my favourite forum has several times the number of people on these forums and no moderators, it works fantastically and 80% of discussion is mature. One reason is the ignore function of the forum... another is the subject matter which maybe just attracts more mature posters. I don't think the former would do much to solve what I perceive to be the problems on these forums. And the latter of course isn't changeable.
However, the problems of having many users such as never being able to find that thread you posted in yesterday can be solved with code.
I really wish I could read up on the technical difficulties to be had with other forums, I can certainly see how some of the other more clumsy open source efforts might put a larger load upon the server than maybe the current forums, but without Archawotsit's post I haven't got a clue how things are.