I haven't been to the CDPR forums in probably 6 months or more. When did they get new forum software? They were using vBulletin which I believe they updated to only like a year or two ago... now they upgraded to xenforo while we are still stuck with this shitty forum?

Really GOG? I feel like GOG is a second class citizen within CDP too, to hell with the view of the gaming community at large. :/

https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?forums/gwent.23/

CDPR brings in 140 million, GOG brings in 14 million. :P

And maybe the site and forum are too intertwined to be easily separated, is it all a jumble of linguine code from 2007? And GOG still needs to hire 30 new employees but can't set up a US office because that'd be too expensive. Maybe. maybe.

We are talking a few hundred dollars a year, I think they can afford it... Assuming they didn't do some weird shit, the forum should be mostly self contained and seperate. Of course, there are site features that integrate with the forum that would have to be removed but replacing them with paid for software shoudn't be a hard nor time consuming task.

I think at this point, the forum software of GOG is tradition more than anything else. It'd feel not only strange, but wrong to have everything working properly.

Actually I think it's not broken enough, it works too well for what it should be, we deserve better.
By the way, how come there's no entry on the community wishlist asking for a worse working forum?

GOG, just go already to their offices and force, if needed, the guys responsible for this to do the job you can't do yourselves, will you?

I'd rather have them not change the forum (except, fix the rep system). It kind of scares me what may come out of it 0_o

Yeah, not like we hadn't already been complaining about the horrid forum for years already when they recently started 'intertwining' the forum with their site like the info under our names. At that point I was already thinking 'what the hell are they writing this code for?' A working search, quotes that don't break when you put more than a few in a post? A halfway decent way to format your post?

Apparently GOG thinks it's a forum company. Making forums. I don't think GOG has made any money at all from their custom forum code. So why do it? It doesn't seem like a good business decision for a crappy forum company that doesn't make any money from their crappy forum.

Me, as conservative user, am very scared of some big change like new forum software. Moreover something new that works properly:)
I'm satisfied with current state. Don't fix what isn't broke.

o.0

I think forum improvements here keep getting put off because eventually the whole thing is going to be integrated with the client or profile system. Or at least there will be a forum in the client or profile system. Steam did the same thing way back.

Yep. With experience how ends implementation of every new feature last years, no more big changes please.

Wait, am I the only one from the GOG forums that visited the Cyberpunk 2077 forums when the trailer was released during that E3 thing recently? Looks like they got the same forum software as that link to the Gwent forums in the OP of this thread.

Anyway, yep, very fancy composing, like HTML email. But also very simple views, just like the GOG forum.

If CDPR is changing forum software yet again, then obviously they haven't been satisfied. So how about they go through all the trial and error first (which does take a year or so at a time), then GOG implements what works best? (I don't understand why that isn't obvious.)

I'm fine with the current GOG forum, if only because no software is perfect since no update is future proof. Not to mention forum software doesn't manage itself.

If there are additional options for moderators when changing the forum software, then the moderators will be expected to use those options. For example, moving OT posts into a new thread, or moving threads between different groups, or whatnot. New forum software with more micromanaging would likely mean needing more employees, and at least new training for current employees involved with these forums. Quality is not going to emerge instantly just by installing new software. (But isn't that obvious, too?) But then again, maybe I've been using computers for too long for my own good. I definitely have very little expectations from computers anymore, and have even stopped writing my own applications years ago. It has seemed to me there are no improvements with OS updates, just new differences. Especially nothing worthwhile with the main focus on the pointer using interface (PUI), gestures, and voice recognition (noisy! try that in classrooms, at work, or out and about) instead of giving more attention to a stable, self-revealing, and less acrobatic interface like the KUI.

How about we try out newsgroups for GOG? Newsgroups still exist, you know. Then members can find their own newsgroup software that they like, individually. No need to rely upon GOG to even moderate, just filter posts on your own with the newsgroup application you chose.

Perhaps even create a few personalized collections of posts filtered by member name, probably with a white list rather than a black list (a.k.a. a reverse kill file), t.i. show posts from only certain members (personally chosen). Then if that wasn't entertaining enough, a person could still toggle to view all other posts in a certain thread. That'd be little difference from cross-referencing a friends list, but with more flexibility of multiple lists (if desired) and no chance of being publicly revealed on the GOG website. For example, you could make list of people who you believe to be knowledgable about a certain topic and cross reference with whatever GOG game newsgroup (like the subforums for games) so as to view their posts primarily. Then view all posts if bored enough. I mean, of course you'd have to find a newsgroup application that offered such abilities, or one which you could easily modify to do that.

Anyway, I haven't really liked any forum software, either too gaudy or not enough personalized filtering and grouping (topic, members, tangents, etc.). And it sounds like some members here in the GOG forums want change just for the sake of change (and not just the forum software), especially whenever anyone declares the version number isn't changing fast enough. Yet, there's always clamor for more change afterwards.

I mean, you're not wrong, but then that begs the question of what isn't broken on this forum.
Because CDPR isn't GOG. Tradition dictates that GOG implements what works worst for a few years before making minor adjustments here and there which spawn new bugs, and then those bugs have a baby.