Then it's not the GGD anymore, it's the "Flavor of The Months" section.
you would set the current viewer threshold high enough that there would be very few subforum threads in GDD.
let's say 2-4 threads.
this feature would be like reading important news for video games that would not happen often
That's an atrocious idea because you'd still just have to be making new subforums for every major game release. "Hey, this new game is a surprise hit and everyone is talking about it! Hey, this new game was supposed to be massively popular but nobody gives a fuck!" Its an awful idea implemented terribly.
Apologies if already discussed, but one way to make megathreads spread out more might be to present slower forums like an imageboard instead of a list of threads.
Thread list navigation seems best for having a list of specific tiny topics which you zoom in on. Imagine opening the forum and scrolling past opening posts & the few most recent posts of each thread instead - you get to see what's going on, you get to see what's being discussed recently, albeit at the expense of topic density.
(I frequent a slowish imageboard that has one meta 'board' for the entire site. It works wonderfully.)
That's something we definitely can do. I was discussing this earlier with the moderation team. Why not create a separate thread about this issue?
The idea is that if a game becomes so popular that it becomes cumbersome to use the associated thread (for example, if you leave for a day and come back to 500+ posts that you're not gonna read) then it's in need of a subforum. That way people can subscribe or make threads on the topics they're interested in.
That being said I can see issues with the main "Games" forum becoming increasing bogged down with threads from subforums. If for example, we have threads for each Overwatch character, each TF2 class, each PUBG map, etc and they are all active, then threads for smaller games within the "Games" category are going to consistently be knocked off the front page and thus harder to find.
We're making changes to the forums and the situation is very much in flux right now. Please bear with us and continue to give us helpful feedback and we can shape Facepunch into a really cool forum.
someone already made a separate thread, over here
thx hezzy you're the best
Tbh I thought megathreads encouraged more talking.
We'll just have to see how this goes
to me these subforums feel like a solution to a problem that never really existed in the first place, people were & are just fine using megathreads for most things - though if they have to stick around, keep subforum threads out of the parent forum and maybe generalize the current ones slightly, Half-Life/TF2/DOTA/CS into a Valve one, etc, and add a way to get to subforums from a parent forum
i don't mind the subforums too much but having all threads show up in the parent forum really clutters things up and makes everything harder to find, which was probably the opposite of what you were aiming to do with this
Well now facepunch looks bloated and stupid. Why did they change Games so much and added all those unnecessary subforums?
I legitimately don't get what the point of this was. Was anyone actually complaining about megathreads in the first place? This is seems like a fix that actually caused the non-existent problem it was supposedly aimed at.
Separating the sub-forums into publishers/developers and genres seems like the best idea.
Blizzard
Bethesda
Valve
Strategy
RPG
Battle Royal
etc.
I understand you want sub-forums for individual games but you won't be able to accommodate for all. Making them broader won't stifle conversation.
Also last but not least, don't have sub-forum threads appear in the parent thread. It's not fair on the threads that don't fit into any of the sub-forums.
A valve subforum maybe but nothing else has enough content to warrant a subforum.
Honestly just either remove the subforum content from the main GGD overview or allow us to customise which subforum threads show up in GGD through checkboxes or whatever works.
It would be pretty cool to have GGD + Specific game subforum X threads condensed into a single view if I were really interested in those but right now my view of GGD gets swamped with minor questions or small threads from subforums of games I have no interest in whatsoever and it becomes a chore to keep track of the stuff I am actually interested in.
I like the idea of branching out very active megathreads into smaller threads so certain topics don't get drowned in the discussion but right now this implication just results in drowning out the entirety of GGD which doesn't have a subforum
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