I don't want to go dumpster diving through General just to find videos. What if the video I want to find gets a bump to the first page while I'm looking for it? I won't know that happened at all.
Bring it back you soy boy beat cucks.
My attention span is not made for megathreads and long discussion, so opting-in in "videos and that crap" was easily my most common activity on this god forsaken site
i think we need to get rid of all forum sections and just have one thread for everything.
I don't think I've seen anyone ever complain about the videos forum, so I'm having a hard time understanding why it got removed.
Based on the title of the general section it look to be at least partially spite.
Please, it feels super akward when I post a video and it bumps down a thread full of discussion. Videos are supposed to be short little threads, maybe a page or two of discussion on them, and then they fade away. Seeing them compete for space with epic 30 page threads doesn't feel right.
Man, that's a harsh change.
VFTKC (oh boy, new acronym) was basically one of the two sections I came to FP for, it saves me from having to filter through clickbait garbage and alt-right disinformation in order to find good videos on youtube. With that gone, my life has lost it's purpose
Yes please. I don't know who thought it was a good idea to lump literally everything into one general forum. I don't think I've ever seen any other forum do something this bizarre.
Day 2, my skin is starting to itch. Not sure how long I'll be able to maintain my sanity
While I agree with the notion of bringing back Videos and That Kinda Crap, I have utmost trust in the forum developers to do what's best for the forum and keeping it alive.
Yes.
Day X, my bones are feeling tingly, my mind is still confused about the whole recent "great merge" that happened with the General section.
Is there any hope left?
Yeah bring it back and add fucking thread ratings. Christ, this is a no-brainer.
People didn't have an issue with the existence of subforums, the issue folks had was with the over-specific subforums
Under Games Discussion
Counter Strike, Half Life and Team Fortress sections could easily be merged to a Valve Games section like we had in the past.
We had a Mario subforum that most folks were in agreement would be better suited as a Nintendo Subforum
Under General we had the Therapy and Social subforums that really could've been a single subforum
Only reason i am still here is because they have not said anything about why or if it is coming back.
I guess i gotta wait and see.
I regret not using the Videos subforum more up until about two months before it was axed, and now that it's gone I find myself clicking its spot almost automatically upon coming to the forum. It was good for expanding my horizons and finding things I wouldn't usually be interested in, content creators I now subscribe to among other things. Without it, and Fast Threads, which admittedly I never used but was good for some laughs for other people, the General forum is a clustertruck.
@Hezzy Can we make a megathread for videos? So they can at least be posted without shitting up the forum or getting lost?
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God this is such a shit idea. If facepunch is really coming to this I'm not going to be here much longer.
Unlike LMAO pics where you know you're going to get funny images, videos come in such different categories that lumping them together in a megathread would be a mishmash of different tones and subjects.
It's really a shame that the moderators of this forum keep trying to remake the wheel on what was already perfect on oldpunch. Should have just left the forum as it was. Now it's just dwindling into dust in the wind
At least put symbols next to threads to indicate it's a video.
@Hezzy @garry
Guys? Still no answer to why video forum was gone?
None of these changes have been designed or asked for by the Moderator team
I'm not sure why it was removed, but I'm off work Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday so I'm going to take a look at it then and have a think.
Yeah this change is just so much bullshit, I can't even find out what threads are for videos and what are not. This whole general page is a fucking mess and I used to visit this part of the forum like twice a day just to complain about these shitty changes. Man I just don't understand how this site can keep getting worse..
Yeah, it isn't like it would be a perm solution. Videos are not really being posted anymore and figured it would be better for it to be a mess of a thread vs not having them at all.
The subfourm should have never been removed to begin with, but you know the way things go around here so we may as well think of something in the meantime.
Seriously, sometimes I feel baited because I click a thread thinking it's going to be a discussion on something and then it's a video. Nothing wrong with videos, but it's all super unclear.
I'm pretty happy with facepunch as it is, the missing Videos section is the only thing that I miss, it would be great to get it back.
gimme my fast threads and videos back
As it was mentioned prior, I too came here (mostly) for the Videos section, where I lurked and made the odd comment. When I was here, though, I'd usually wander around the myriad of subsections for posts that caught my fancy.
Alas, poor Facepunch.
Our lord and savior, we await for your miracles.
Somebody should make a video megathread, see how fast you guy can get it to lock. If there's demand, that's good evidence for the return of the video forum.
We did have one, but it doesn't really work in the megathread format.
Lots and lots of videos embedded in the same thread causes performance issues, especially for mobile users - and having lots of unrelated videos posted leaves little room for discussion about the individual videos.
What about continuing to post videos as if this were the video forum, but use the "Television" thread tag?
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