The RPS Feedback Thread

Rossignol 2011-06-03 07:36:53 UTC #1

Tell me what you like or dislike about RPS. You don’t have to be nice, but you don’t have to be rude, either.

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tomeoftom 2011-06-03 07:49:44 UTC #2

The words are good! Very good, actually.

mlaskus 2011-06-03 07:58:20 UTC #3

It would be nice if the RPS logo lead to the website’s homepage, like at the old forum.

Spectre-7 2011-06-03 08:02:13 UTC #4

The good:
Excellent writing
Sharp wit
Regular, timely updates
Focus on PC gaming, which is clearly the only thing that matters.

The bad:
If I allowed 1/10th the number of typos you gents produce on a daily basis to slip through in my own work, I’d be literally (and by that, I mean <em>figuratively</em>) crucified. So… jealousy, basically. I’m jealous of you, and that makes your site slightly worse. Maybe I’ll be fixed in an upcoming patch.

Jams_O_Donnell 2011-06-03 08:32:16 UTC #5

<blockquote>It would be nice if the RPS logo lead to the website’s homepage, like at the old forum.</blockquote>
Yes, I hate it when forums make it hard to get to the parent site. Your command is my wish.

@Spectre-7 I’ll wager RPS has fewer typos than the bally BBC.

Batolemaeus 2011-06-03 08:45:02 UTC #6

Is this the correct thread to kindly request that my postcount is decreased to -1, so I can feel special in a world of 0-post dudes and dudettes?

Spectre-7 2011-06-03 08:47:33 UTC #7

As long as we’re making requests, I’d like a second 0 by my post count. Just always wanted to be a double-0.

mlaskus 2011-06-03 08:52:07 UTC #8

Yay! Logo points where it should already. Thanks Jon!

Ezhar 2011-06-03 09:21:01 UTC #9

Firstly, thanks for replacing that horrid old forum with a proper one. BUT! Why did I just have to register again when I already had a RPS username and login? Surely it must be possible to hook up the vBulletin authentication to the Wordpest accounts all of us already had? That’d also be quite convenient for having the same login names on comments and forum (you know, in case one of us needs to be reprimanded or so).

TheApologist 2011-06-03 09:23:31 UTC #10

I second praise for the words. The words are indeed good. Also, it seems to me that you guys have been engaging in the comments more recently, and I enjoy that too.

So my niggle is only really a request for MORE WORDS or rather more of a particular type of collection of words. Specifically, the conversations you guys occasionally have among yourselves about a game and type up. I find the disputations and agreements interesting, and they are often really funny to read. I know it must require a big investment of time to all play the same game, and then all spend time contributing to what will be just one post, so I totally understand they might just not be practicable to do more of. But as a reader I do especially value them.

'fanks!

Also, more Horace the Endless Bear lest he become vengeful.

Ezhar 2011-06-03 09:31:39 UTC #11

Also, links are broken. If you’re not allowing them, fine, but then why is there a little make-a-link icon in the rich text editor? That’s just teasing.

The post count not working is probably a running gag now.

Tei 2011-06-03 09:37:14 UTC #12

Theres nothing I dislike. That don’t mean I like everything,… I am neutral to a lot of things.

I am neutral to the website (seems) using ajax to load comments. If thats means comments will not be indexed by google … I am neutral to that. But if some day I forget the name of a game, but only remember some comment, and try to find that comment, and since are not indexed in google, I can’t find that game. Then it will not like that. But I have to admit that is a rare occurence, and I can stilll ask about such game in this forum. All in all, I suppose is a tradeoff.

Spectre-7 2011-06-03 09:41:53 UTC #13

@Ezhar

BBCode links don’t work, but good old <a href=‘http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html-markup-20110525/a.html#a’>HTML anchors</a> work just fine.

Rii 2011-06-03 09:42:13 UTC #14

I prefer the old forum. Change is bad, bad I say!

More productively, I’m not sure that RPS has the volume to sustain discussions divided in this fashion, although I appreciate that you’ve hardly gone nuts with the sub-fora.

Spacewalk 2011-06-03 09:46:10 UTC #15

Teething problems aside I quite like the colours.

Kadayi 2011-06-03 09:46:12 UTC #16

Never been a fan of post counts, but if we aren’t having them lets lose the ‘Posts’

moth_bones 2011-06-03 09:46:26 UTC #17

So has the old forum simply vanished? Quite a lot of good, and ongoing, threads there, and nary an announcement that this migration (is that the right word?) was taking place.

Also, I can’t get at the comments on any of the articles. This isn’t good.

Rii 2011-06-03 09:50:30 UTC #18

There was an announcement, but I agree it’s a shame that the old forum is simply gone.

Jams_O_Donnell 2011-06-03 09:54:44 UTC #19

Old forum is here, for those who need to see it: <a href=“http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/rpsforum”>http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/rpsforum</a>

moth_bones 2011-06-03 09:56:08 UTC #20

Was there? I was looking at the site yesterday and was given no inkling that this was about to happen.

I’m uncomfortably aware that this sounds like griping, so I’ll make a positive comment - the colours are very relaxing, and I’m sure the reorganisation with subforums will be an improvement once it’s settled down.

EDIT - Ah, thanks Jonathan, and more fool me for not noticing a big sodding sticky at the top of the page!