POST HERE : Get ZAM to update this mess of a forumFollow

It's not a mess at all. Whenever a thread gets necro'd, it is usually locked very quickly, and I've seen VERY few necros tbh. The admins here do a pretty awesome job of keeping the peace and locking things when necessary, so I think you're completely off base with this. They have enough other stuff to worry about with the recent merger and the crazy influx of people lately. I certainly wouldn't be opposed to archiving 1.0 threads, but by no means is it a necessity, nor do I think not having it set up that way is driving people from the site.

Edited, Aug 22nd 2013 5:54pm by BartelX

So because I didn't give you the answer you wanted in IRC now you're doing this? I fully intended to talk to the developers when I had a moment but I'm EXTREMELY busy with things that are infinitely more important than this right now.

You could wipe the forum and transfer over important threads too

What's wrong with our forums punk?

---> The door. Don't let it hit ya on the way out.

Killua, I was joking. Who actually talks like that?

Other than Dirty Harry, of course.

Edited, Aug 22nd 2013 6:19pm by Transmigration

... some people do.

But anyway, I agree maybe it's not a big issue but I still agree with him that it would be better if they clean it up. Even if it doesn't bother you personally it's obvious that they should clean it up.

Here is the issue: anything that gets done needs a ticket for our developer to look at. These forums are custom written using Perl, it's not some stupid PHPBB forum so whatever you think you know about forum administration goes out the window here.

We have a very big project we're trying to get done before the game launches, which in case you weren't aware, is in less than 2 days time. So just because you all of a sudden have this raging desire for squeaky clean forums doesn't mean I'm going to jump when you say to. If you think I'm going to go through nearly 17,000 threads and nuke them one by one you're nuts.

We probably should have looked at it sooner, but we weren't sure if we were even going to keep these forums 3 months ago, the idea at the time was to have a Moghead (not the official name) style site similar to Wowhead, complete with the same kinds of forums that Wowhead has. Now that we own XIVDB, Moghead is not needed.

Once the dust settles down we will look at cleaning up the forums. I can take the stickies down in the sub forums and if anyone has new guides they want put up in their place you know who to ask.

I must have lost your PM, I can't find it in my list anywhere.

As I said I am sorry if it annoyed you and understand (a little) of the difficulties with a big site.

Keeping people informed is always a good idea. The SE beta forums are now offline so those people are gonna look for somewhere to go and I would like that place to be here. A poor first impression won't encourage them to stay.

Once people become invested in a community they tend to stay, hell I'm with the same clan/guild I joined in 2002, I don't yet feel like part of this place, but in the past I have spent a lot of time here. I have plenty of other places to go, so does anyone else so the community has to provide them a reason to stay. Or there won't be a thriving community. I don't see anything wrong with raising a legitimate concern politely, and actually making some suggestions (one being removing outdated stickies - not 1700 posts manually).

I'll check back here from time to time. I wish you all the best.

There are a few people I wouldn't mind not posting here.. like 90% of the gaming community. The rest are fine though

Edited, Aug 22nd 2013 6:40pm by Transmigration

Posters just need to learn to pay attention to the date of a thread. Even if stuff gets cleaned up now, the same problem will happen 3 years from now with threads being made today. Actually, not even 3 years from now. It'll start happening in a few months.