We’ve been reading each and every piece of feedback we’ve received so far very carefully, and we can see (as we expected) that the loss of signatures is a big problem for many of you.
While we do think the new user cards feature could make a good alternative, it’s not a direct replacement. We really, really want this changeover to be as smooth and stress-free for our community as possible, and we really do care about what you think.
Plan for adding signatures
To this end, we’ve had a big discussion around the signatures issue and this is our plan:
We will launch on [name_f]Sunday[/name_f], [name_f]April[/name_f] 26 initially without signatures (as this makes for a much less complicated transition).
Once the changeover is complete and we’ve ironed out any teething issues with the new platform and user navigation, we will install a plugin which allows users to create signatures in Discourse.
We will not be able to bring old signatures over automatically, so if you want to keep yours be sure to save it somewhere before [name_f]Sunday[/name_f].
[name_m]How[/name_m] it will work
The way the signature plugin works in Discourse is that it’s an opt-in system. Users who want to create signatures will need to enable this on their profile; they will then be able to create a signature and view those of others.
People who don’t opt in won’t see any signatures, regardless of whether other users have set them or not.
When the time comes for us to introduce signatures, I will create a pinned FAQ/how-to and let you all know that the feature is coming and how to use it. I’m afraid I’m not able to say now exactly when that will be, but we will treat it as a priority once this transition period is over.
I hope this comes as good news to those of you who were concerned about the loss of this feature, and thank you all so much for your constructive feedback!
Looking at the new boards, I’ve noticed many of the posts are getting cut off on March 25th (and some even earlier than that). Also, on posts where there was a poll, the first post is missing having been replaced by the poll instead of adding the poll in as a separate post in the thread. Is this going to be corrected or should we just say goodbye to the missing posts?
I’ve also noticed that on pc view, the thread won’t completely load, yet on mobile view everything is loading (number listed is what is loaded i.e. 34/34 loading).
Yep. I had a post to go with all of the polls I wrote.
Each of the posts I listed were active all the way through yesterday, give or take, prior to the switchover. The ones I looked at were cut off at least a month before their last (actual) active dates.
Thank you. Also, the more I look at the threads, the more I’m noticing. Overall, I like it, but it will definitely take some getting use to.
I just looked again at my polls, and those votes registered yesterday were not included in the polls in the switchover. I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this, but I thought I would give you a head’s up.
Absolutely! It’s really helpful. Please do let me know if you notice any other issues.
I’m sorry about all these little hitches, we will get them straightened out. It’s been a big project and I’m really grateful to everyone who is bearing with us as we iron these things out.
After spending a couple hours on the new forum I have to say I like it a lot. They only thing I really dont like and Iam disappointed about, is the games forum. You can’t find easily previous games, some are closed, you cant find the previous answers etc This is so far the only downside imo and its a shame because the previous games forum was so much fun and they keep me busy during quarantine.
It turns out there’s an automatic limit on topics with more than 10k replies that has been triggered on some of the Name Games. The tech folks are looking at it now.
