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Re: Looking for input on site changes
Maybe it wouldn't be a good idea (would probably feel very Alla) but if we kinda like our off-topic-ness, a method of organizing posts into sub-threads would probably be wildly convenient. Which is to say for example, Malacite posts "The death of FFXI" in the "what would you like to see happen in Rapture?" thread. Instead of devoting a page and a half to this, having posts relevant to his topic - which is interesting in and of itself - all replied directly under his post. I also think ideally, it would be collapsible to hide all the replies to said subtopic, and by default it should be collapsed (with a little line saying "5 replies" between it and the next post) so the quick scanner isn't subject to all this crap. Example - Armando made the "Mobs with Odd Properties" thread. 3 pages of bickering ensued because one person decided to be unreasonably doubtful. If a new user wants to read the interesting finds of Armando, they get through 1.5 pages and are left wondering if they can trust any of the data. That's just silly.
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Also, this is selfish but I'd love it: there are lots of interesting finds on BG (even though their testing almost always sucks) and probably on Alla and of course on blogs that occasionally pop up (I had no idea whotf Kaeko was 'til Enmity testing). When I'm at BG, I feel like my brain is melting. Therefore, I just don't peruse those sites and I've fallen out of the loop - even on the good stuff.
I would like a column on the main page dedicated to user-submitted cross-post threads (or blog entries). E.g. if while Aksannyi is lol'ing at BG threads, she comes across an incredibly useful tidbit on SCH macros, she could submit to a mod and they'd list it on a front-page column. There would only be room for a few threads on the front page, but have an archive button to see all other entries.
Over the years, there has been ridiculous amounts of testing done that has never really amounted to much. Since I find it difficult to trust FFXIclopedia these days, my ulterior motive is to end up with an archive of threads that will basically be "citations". So obviously, my interest would be in seeing lots of threads that read stuff like "it turns out there isn't an accuracy bonus on Souleater afterall!" or "Critical hits and 117 DEX" but I think the feature could be useful to lots of people with aforementioned "SCH macros" idea and such.
Would this "I want the best of every site w/out actually having to sift through it" feature be too much? Or unnecessary/unused?
And did this post get into the "tl;dr" territory?
EDIT: also about the server forums - maybe we could condense into a "request" subforum and have a sticky that states to post in the format of "Server_Name - Topic"?
Maybe it wouldn't be a good idea (would probably feel very Alla) but if we kinda like our off-topic-ness, a method of organizing posts into sub-threads would probably be wildly convenient. Which is to say for example, Malacite posts "The death of FFXI" in the "what would you like to see happen in Rapture?" thread. Instead of devoting a page and a half to this, having posts relevant to his topic - which is interesting in and of itself - all replied directly under his post. I also think ideally, it would be collapsible to hide all the replies to said subtopic, and by default it should be collapsed (with a little line saying "5 replies" between it and the next post) so the quick scanner isn't subject to all this crap. Example - Armando made the "Mobs with Odd Properties" thread. 3 pages of bickering ensued because one person decided to be unreasonably doubtful. If a new user wants to read the interesting finds of Armando, they get through 1.5 pages and are left wondering if they can trust any of the data. That's just silly.
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Also, this is selfish but I'd love it: there are lots of interesting finds on BG (even though their testing almost always sucks) and probably on Alla and of course on blogs that occasionally pop up (I had no idea whotf Kaeko was 'til Enmity testing). When I'm at BG, I feel like my brain is melting. Therefore, I just don't peruse those sites and I've fallen out of the loop - even on the good stuff.
I would like a column on the main page dedicated to user-submitted cross-post threads (or blog entries). E.g. if while Aksannyi is lol'ing at BG threads, she comes across an incredibly useful tidbit on SCH macros, she could submit to a mod and they'd list it on a front-page column. There would only be room for a few threads on the front page, but have an archive button to see all other entries.
Over the years, there has been ridiculous amounts of testing done that has never really amounted to much. Since I find it difficult to trust FFXIclopedia these days, my ulterior motive is to end up with an archive of threads that will basically be "citations". So obviously, my interest would be in seeing lots of threads that read stuff like "it turns out there isn't an accuracy bonus on Souleater afterall!" or "Critical hits and 117 DEX" but I think the feature could be useful to lots of people with aforementioned "SCH macros" idea and such.
Would this "I want the best of every site w/out actually having to sift through it" feature be too much? Or unnecessary/unused?
And did this post get into the "tl;dr" territory?
EDIT: also about the server forums - maybe we could condense into a "request" subforum and have a sticky that states to post in the format of "Server_Name - Topic"?
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