I totally agree with this. Also it's the only gaming forum that I can browse at work without people noticing at first glance that I'm not looking into some software development forum.

All that flashing and lights are actually killing birds, they get drawn to it and then they get lost.

Serves them right. Birds shouldn't be going to Las Vegas; they have more important things to do than gamble.

dunno, ive had plenty of good times with birds who were drunk and liked a gamble! ;)

Well then I request the "This is my favorite topic " check box be reworded to "This is A favorite topic." The fact that it sounds like you can have only one is the reason I have ignored it. Honestly something being a favorite isn't the only reason to watch it. I might hate something so much I have to keep watching it.

They did add text-only signatures to the forum a while back. I think it was less than two days before they removed them again. They were not well received by the community.

that's kind of silly.

anyway, I missed this thread. I guess I'll still share some thoughts that I had about the forum and problems that I've run into while using the forum, even though the site rewrite is just around the corner.

first, some things I like. I like how fast and snappy the forum is, and also the aesthetics of the forum. the whole of gog.com is very fast despite using a lot of dynamic web things and also the aesthetics of everything are pretty nice.

the search function, though, is ass. you should at least be able to sort your results. you cannot sort by date even which would be particularly useful. filters would be nice, so we can search more specifically. another problem is that search criteria in one tab seems to be universally applied. so if I'm in another thread on another tab the search criteria filters the thread. not good, but I understand if that maybe is not the easiest thing to fix?

the favorite feature is nice, and mitigates some of this, but that is an unusual feature and you see less of that in conventional forum software, so I don't tend to use it. it also requires a certain amount of conscious forethought on whether or not I'll want to get back to this thread later. I would think it far more useful to be able to favorite a certain post.

I don't really see any problems with rep. I talked about rep somewhat negatively in another forum, but I don't really have any problems with gog's current rep system. I don't see an easy way to fix the things that could be considered wrong with it. you might just introduce new problems. the rep system is so simple at the moment, I think because that there are certain downsides to it anyway just indicate that there are going to be some problems with any system you have. you could decouple rep from post-count I guess. maybe weight votes higher than posts. so each post is a .25 and a vote is a 1 or 2 and so on.

I wish there was some built-in site mechanism to view bonus content. I understand if some do not appreciate this, and I also believe that the ability to download archives should not be taken away. but sometimes downloading zips is a bit cumbersome. depends on the type of bonus content, really.

there definitely should be an in-browser method to view and choose avatars for the forum. that would kickback to you guys, too.

another problem for me is that gogmixes are kind of out of the way. you encourage them, but there is no place to go to view them. look at a list of the top ones. sort by genre or so on. they exist in this semi-hidden state. the only way I know to get to them is on the right of the page for a game you're looking at or when linked directly.

the DLC system you have is sub-optimal. this is a kind of way putting it publicly on the forum. I think you must realize. you can really see why with some of the games that have more DLC here. I'm speaking mainly from a perspective of viewing on the store, not for managing DLC you have downloaded, of which I have little experience.

that's pretty much all I can think of right now.

I just noticed the "Color scheme" selector at the top of the forum.

*click*

My eyes! MY EYES!!!

Sorry. I probably noticed it when I first joined here, with similar results. I'm sure some folks use the Bright mode, but I expect most gamers find the Dark mode a natural fit.

Still, nice that you offer a choice! So this isn't really a suggestion or anything useful, just an observation.

Which thread is that in?

Based on my short time here, there appear to be two needed improvements:

FORUM
- "Please wait. Processing..." issue needs to be fixed when submitting replies. This appears to be a common issue.

ALL OF GOG.COM
- servant-1.gog.com needs to be fixed somehow. It causes 10-30 second delays in loading all GOG.com pages in Firefox (and latest version of Pale Moon with all default settings), but doesn't do that in Chrome. I don't know if others are experiencing this issue too, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were. I addressed the page loading issue today in a thread I created, and per someone's suggestion had to create an ABE script in NoScript to deny servant-1.gog.com then all the GOG.com pages finally loaded in under 2 sec in Firefox.

Two are the most common reasons for this issue to appear.

1) Incorrect quote tags. Usually a /quote missing.
2) Links with a low rep account. As a spam prevention measure, accounts require a minimum amount of rep (7?) before being able to post links, but there isn't a message about it.

It is of course possible that every now and then a post will get hit by this issue without any of the above reasons, but it's not a common occurrence.

Thanks for sharing two common reasons and one uncommon reason that might occur. Mine was due to incorrect quote tags somehow, even though I'm familiar with coding. I had to clear cache after each "Please wait. Processing..." caused a stalling, nonresponsive window. If I didn't clear the cache, even closing the nonresponsive window and starting a new reply still would yield a nonresponsive "Please wait. Processing..." no matter what. There are two issues I hope GOG can address: (1) nonresponsiveness of the window, (2) no error message regarding quote tags.

This has to do with why members may find themselves unable to reply for over 10 minutes or even hours sometimes while in midst of a forum discussion, unless they knew of the clearing cache trick.

So I'm hoping GOG can address this sometimes. When they feel like it, of course.

Nobody.

I just tried it and I kinda like it.