BETA-TEST THE NEW MINECRAFT FORUM
Today is a very special day, Minecrafters! We are very excited to invite you to beta-test the new, improved Minecraft Forum! This beta is the final step in moving Minecraft Forum onto the Cobalt community platform, an in-house platform that provides an improved forum experience, a full suite of content management tools, and faster loading times!
So, what does this mean for you? Well, we would like your input! Head over to the beta forum, give it a spin, and let us know what you think! Try out post formatting, searching around, anything you can think of! Upvote your friends! Report me for rule infractions! Test everything! If you would like to leave us feedback - good, bad, anything at all - see below!
FEEDBACK
If you have feedback to provide, a feature request, or you have found a bug please see the following threads: Every user that provides valuable feedback during the beta will be given an exclusive forum title to use once the site is live!
FEATURES:
Cobalt provides a number of new and improved features, this includes - but is not limited to - the following:
- Member Titles: Earn new member titles and select your member title of choice via My Account > Titles!
- New Content: Watch as new posts and threads are created with the automatically refreshing New Content feed.
- Email Digests: Notification spam no more! Notification digests are now available, receive emails only when is most convenient for you, set up your notifications settings via My Account > Notification Settings. Note: during the beta emails are disabled.
- Follow your favourite content creators and get notified when they make new posts! Keep up with your favourite mod fixes and texture pack updates with ease. Visit My Account > My Subscriptions > Users to manage who you're following.
There is no possible way it could have been either...
That was no where close to sarcasm. Not even close. It was more of question. Not in a serious matter though.
And it can't be stupidity because I know this isn't Reddit. You know I know this isn't reddit. There is no downvote button, no AskReddit threads, no picture at the top that says Reddit. No white background with sky blue bars and banners.
I shall avoid the new version like the plague. I've already got too many unnecessary stressors in my life already without having to stare at wobsites.
Exactly. Broken post formatting on edits are a thing of the past.
Thanks for the constructive feedback!
Oh wait.
This site pushes the limits of brightness I like to tolerate.
The new version is so white that it's an eyesore in certain conditions - such as reading my large television-screen in a pleasantly-lit room instead of looking at a small computer-screen in a brightly-lit workplace. Where a bright room makes a white screen about as inoffensive as a sheet of paper for many, it seems a lot of people don't keep the places where they use the Internet brightly lit. Thus, mostly-white forums are an eyesore (literally, since the screen produces the most light to create white, and staring at bright lights for prolonged periods is hard on the eyes).
Further, you've changed up the icons to another unintelligible batch of random. Okay, I learned to translate full and empty buckets, chests and minecarts, and so on... and now I'm looking at... I don't even know... is that a blue cube with a mountain on each face... it says it's a poll... maybe that's a line-graph... at least there's a mouse-over. And it looks like they all display faded to indicate I've read that thread... So you've got me learning a new set of symbols that mean nothing anywhere but to the art student who threw them at that page because...? It's annoying to have a new batch of icons which seem to offer no benefit over the old ones. It's irritating to see meaningless symbols instead of something that you have recognized for a long time - like showing up and the site's menu is suddenly all in Latin for a laugh. Yeah, it's only a handful of things to learn, but you just slowed people down for no visible gain. Change for no reason is bad.
You're going to see a lot of feedback that boils down to "this is an obnoxious, ugly thing" and sometimes they won't even understand why they find themselves wanting to look away from the mostly-white screen you're providing. You may not even understand it, because your viewing conditions are different.
Is posting all that constructive? Maybe not. All it did was point out a problem to you that I really thought you'd already be aware of. But, then again, you asked for suggestions there, not here.
As my year 4 teacher insisted to us all for a long, long time, there's no such word as brung
On topic though: I noticed when I go to my post count, it says 67 comments and 1826 forum posts. What's the difference, and if they are what I think they are shouldn't they be the other way around? I know I certainly haven't made 1826 threads
Posts that provide anything that is useful to us, for example this is valuable feedback because they provide an idea and explain how they think it might work: http://beta.minecraftforum.net/forums/beta/forum-beta-feedback/2081370-themes
If you can elaborate that would be appreciated!
Juggling the order of forums is unfortunately very difficult, we currently base it off of the popularity of a section (SYC is far down because it's not very popular) but we're aware that by putting a section at the bottom it ensures it stays low in traffic, we're looking at ways to deal with that problem.
The new forum software provides tons of new features, it also includes a brand new content management system for news / pages and resolves numerous outstanding issues on the forum, including improved stability and more mobile friendly. Moving to the new software will allow us to ensure that long term the forum is the best forum it can be, on the current forum software we're hitting the limits of what we can do.
Yes! That is the worst bug in the world and it's completely resolved on the new platform, also a brand new feature is included called "Revision History", Revision History allows you to see every previous edit to your posts and you can revert back to any of them at any time.
Feel free to play around with this feature in the "Test" section of the beta forum, make a post, edit it, refresh the page, edit some more, then use the "Post History" drop down to see everything!
RIP soon(tm)
Hmm, to me the beta is no brighter than the live website but as you say I'm working in a brightly lit room. Can you provide some information on which parts of the site are too bright? An annotated screenshot would be hugely helpful!
I've seen a few comments regarding the icons, I've made a note and we'll look into improving the icons.
What is wrong with the avatars? We can make changes if there's something we've missed!
A "comment" is a comment on a news article and "post" includes anything made on the forum: posts and threads. The comment count originally included profile comments but we've removed that because of potential for abuse.
EDIT: Also, I think that the brown headers, titles, buttons, etc look terrible. I know that Minecraft has dirt and all... but it doesn't look good. Grey, Blue or Green would look nice.
It looks like you're trying to merge the old style of 3D elements with flat, pastel colours which looks absolutely awful and childish. The current interface style, while looking rather dated at this point, is both usable (not overly contrasting, as opposed to the excessive green- and brown-on-white in the beta forum) and decent looking.
That green doesn't even look like Minecraft grass green.
#ISeeTheLight
Greatest news of the day !
EDIT: What I'd also really like to see is updating the emoticons and the default Steve avatar to use the correct, most recent textures. It's silly, and probably confuses some new people, to see the primary forums for the game use textures that weren't in the game for years.
Damn, my year 4 teacher was exactly like that.. what if we had the same teacher :0
I must say, I will miss the backspace bug..