Just want to remark that on the forums, for a few weeks now I’m noticing that most views - Latest, Top - have a plethora of pinned topics, making it a bit difficult to start browsing.
Not the best word, maybe annoying, or even silly.
Many of these threads have been pinned as far back as 2019. The change affects WoW, Heroes, D3 at least.
The workaround is to unpin everything except the last few. For WoW it’s a bit difficult because there are so many.
I suppose there is a new setting to always show pinned topics first.
A collapsible pinned section would be great. For many subsections of the forum it’s taking even more priority space than the new Xalatath banner on the general overview page. It looks and feels horrible on frequent visits.
You can’t really insist for the users to read through all the stickies, but for the most important or newly added ones you can always use the notification system to ping fresh arrivals and lock them out from participating until they at least once open up each page.
Just the other day we had this. They get it but probably haven’t figured out the best solution for the problem yet.
Hi! On the [Argent Dawn roleplay server, which still maintains a very active community to this day, we have a number of pinned topics at the top of the forum. The number of pins stands out more, and takes more space, after the latest forum update.
The stickies on the Argent Dawn forum have been cleaned up.
Unless a Pinned thread is no longer relevant (which would be defined on a case by case basis, depending on the forum in question), we do indeed want players to pay attention to these, as these threads were stickied for a reason.
I counted 72 pinned threads, the last bunch of them dated Nov 2018. There are 12 threads per screen, so it’s 6 screens of scrolling (and several section loads) before I get to the actually newest threads.
Top and Unread are not affected. (Pins are first but they are filtered, so there are only two.)
I find Global Latest the easiest way to check on some topics, every other hides many of them.
